SOUL FOOD FOR RIGHT NOW
June 15, 2025 - August 17, 2025
Let’s consider contemporary spiritual practices that nourish a healthy inner life and strengthen the connection between our hearts and God’s heart. How, in a season that feels so out of control, do we hold on to our agency, refusing to relinquish responsibility for our own wellbeing? How do make ourselves available to hear God’s Spirit through the cacophony shredding our attention into a million splinters?
Let’s return to our continuous read-through of Luke’s gospel, seeking Jesus’s support for practices that can help us meet this moment with spiritual grit and sufficient shalom.
Ask for Help. Jesus calls his first disciples in an exchange of mutual aid. He needs a platform; they can share one. They’ve caught nothing; he can direct them to a big catch. He needs assistants; they can follow. The best relationships function this way, like a seesaw, in complementary partnership.
Reckon with Your Past. When you encounter Jesus, he goes straight to the heart of the problem. The healing he offers could be physical, or emotional, or spiritual. You have to be ready for him to clean things up, re-order your psyche, put you back together from the inside out. How do we partner with Jesus in this self-rehabilitation? What about therapy as a spiritual practice?