Hi friends!
I want to take a moment to say thank you for your continued support and readership. It has been so fun to connect with some of you! Also, thank you for your grace as it turns out it takes me more than a week to listen for inspiration and edit my pieces. It has been both terrifying and joyful to let myself be seen in this way. I hope, in God’s grace, it has somehow perhaps helped some of you feel a little seen as well.
I would also like to write to share with you that I am so grateful to be following my heart’s desire and will be studying regenerative health and spiritual companionship! My intention is to use the teachings to serve others, and help myself, to experience more and more heaven on earth in body, mind and soul.
I will continue to write and share, although I can not say exactly how often that will be as there are writing assignments in my classes as well. I hope to do my best to write from a place of authenticity, rest and prioritizing presence with my family. (My babies are growing so fast!)
From my heart, thank you for continuing to be with me on this ride and for your love and support, and through that love and support helping me to feel more heaven on earth. It is such a joy to exercise my love for writing and to share that love with you. What a gift you are to me.
with gratitude,
Kate
Here is a little something for today…An imaginative prayer exercise:
How do you mentally picture God?
Let’s try this out for size. Settle into our seats. And what comes to mind when we read the following:
“My soul is weaned like a nursing child leaning on the bosom of God.” (Psalm 131)
God is not a man or woman, we recognize all of our words about God are inadequate but yet we only have words to capture God's goodness. What happens when we hear God described this way from the Psalms? Imagining and seeing God with feminine aspects. That God is like a nursing mother to me. God cares for me like Her own child. I moved through a brief illness recently, and in my rest and prayer, found myself imagining my pillow as the chest of my Creator. Feeling God’s embrace and comfort in my tired state. This imagination allowed God’s presence to be palpable and real in my awareness. Imagination helps to bring the truth of God with us. Different images will bring each of us different sensations - what image brings you peace and feelings of complete compassionate love?
God is so often more like the feeling we get from a favorite song or the calm of nature, than a perfectly contrived set of words. Perhaps awareness of the mental image we hold of God will help us tap into that mysterious yet impactful sensation of God’s presence.
How we see God affects how we see others, and how we see ourselves. The more fully I let myself be known by God, as Gods beloved child- the clearer I will see and know my Creator. And the clearer I see my Creator, the more I live out love. There’s this beautiful reflective quality about God’s goodness, isn’t there?
May we reflect the warmth of God’s goodness and love today, simply by basking in the warmth of God’s presence.
Inhale feel the warmth of God's embrace
Exhale radiate warmth <3
“On the days and nights when I believe this story that we call Christianity, I cannot entirely make sense of the storyline: God trusted God’s very self, totally and completely and in full bodily form, to the care of a woman, God needed women for survival. Before Jesus fed us with the bread and the wine, the body and the blood, Jesus himself needed to be fed, by a woman. He needed a woman to say, ‘This is my body, given for you.’” Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith.
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.” Mary Oliver, Wild Geese.
“For we are only as healthy as our picture of God is accurate.” Greg Boyd, Seeing is Believing.