June 19: IT'S EASIER TO TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER…
Affirmation: I am blessed, abundant & grateful.
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.”
Jeremiah 17:7 NIV
This week remember to play…make time to play. Play is important because it restores your sou. Many times play is written off as trivial, or foolish.
But Stuart Brown, author of Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, begs to differ. He tells us that play isn’t a luxury. It’s actually a necessity for us to operate in the fullness of our potential.
This is because “The opposite of play is not work, the opposite of play is depression.”
Put another way: the more that play disappears from your life, the closer you move towards a state of depression.
Make time for play we veryday this week- you will be blessed, abundant and grateful.
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Live in Grace. Walk in Love. By Bob Goff
June 19
IT'S EASIER TO TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER THAN ABOUT THE STORMS IN OUR LIVES.
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
JAMES 5:16
The pace of life and the demands of a day can throw us all. I remember a few of those days when I was a partner at the law firm. I'd come home after a big day in court and plop down in my favorite chair, exhausted. A stay-at-home mom leaves it all on the field and has nothing left. The guy at Arby's is just trying to make rent. If that means slicing roast beef, he'll do it. These can be the hardest moments to stay engaged and connected with the people who are most important in our lives. We just don't have the energy for it. So we keep it shallow.
Needing a little downtime is no crime, but if you string too many of those days together, you create the habit of staying on the surface with everyone. When we stay on the surface, we miss the opportunity to share our fears and insecurities and doubts, and we forfeit the chance to hear the same. We trade the few deep conversations we should be having with the ones closest to us for many shallow conversations with everybody else.
The shallow end isn't always as safe as it looks. We can skate through life without having many vulnerable conversations, and our flaws and fears will remain unexposed. If we're never willing to get real, we'll never really be known, and if we're never known, it's hard to feel truly loved for who we actually are. Try anything you want, but being vulnerable is the only pathway to true connection.
The fix is simple. Identify a handful of people who have gone through hard times and have come out stronger on the other end. Invite those people into a couple of the difficult parts of your life-the ones you don't quite have figured out yet. Sometimes, the only thing worse than going through storms is going through them alone. Invite a few friends to join you.
Who will you invite into your deeper journey?
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