How do we find a sense of peace and consolation when we are facing so much in our life? Using scriptures and practical applications, Steve speaks to each of us on how to handle the stresses of today.
T-Thanksgiving
R-Relinquish what is not mine to control
U- Usurping God’s role is not what I need to be doing.
S-Surrender what is causing me stress back to God.
T-Turn my palms up and open to God releasing what I need and want to release
1. Practice the spiritual discipline of slowing down – turn off cell phone and computer
a. Begin a meeting or the dinner table with silence
b. Combine silence with taking deep breathing
2. Identify the stress – do a DNA of what is causing it. To know is to be armed
3. Incorporate humor in your life
4. Give yourself some space where you don’t talk about the situation
5. Develop rituals that help you relax
a. Listen to news for only 30 minutes a day
b. Long baths
c. Soothing tea (no caffeine!)
d. Shut everything off 30 minutes before you go to bed
e. Light a candle
f. Listen to soothing music
6. Take a walk in the outdoors every single day. Nature grounds us and we can soak in the balm and peace.
7. Invite friends over for a comfort food meal
8. Do the Daily Examen at the end of your day.
9. Start a gratitude list of what you’re already realizing, now in this precise time, that you can be thankful for.
10. Spend time in prayer resting in the Presence. Not trying to beg for God to be bear you. God is present. What’s missing is awareness.
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Moment to Breathe - Blessing for the Brokenhearted by Jan Richardson
Let us agree
for now
that we will not say
the breaking
makes us stronger
or that it is better
to have this pain
than to have done
without this love.
Let us promise
we will not
tell ourselves
time will heal
the wound,
when every day
our waking
opens it anew.
Perhaps for now
it can be enough
to simply marvel
at the mystery
of how a heart
so broken
can go on beating,
as if it were made
for precisely this—
as if it knows
the only cure for love
is more of it,
as if it sees
the heart’s sole remedy
for breaking
is to love still,
as if it trusts
that its own
persistent pulse
is the rhythm
of a blessing
we cannot
begin to fathom
but will save us
nonetheless.
From The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief © Jan Richardson (Wanton Gospeller Press, 2016). janrichardson.com
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