The Weekly Breather: The Compassion Dare
Have you held on to hard or hurtful thoughts about someone? These thoughts, when allowed to fester, will be destructive in your life. Will you take our compassion challenge and offer those thoughts to God?
Have you held on to hard or hurtful thoughts about someone? These thoughts, when allowed to fester, will be destructive in your life. Will you take our compassion challenge and offer those thoughts to God?
Meet with Jesus to consider what season of life you may be in.
This Sunday is Pentecost Sunday, the day we celebrate the gift of God’s Spirit filling his people. Encounter the Holy Spirit afresh with this Weekly Breather.
Have you ever had one of those friends with whom words were not necessary? Could you sit in silence and just enjoy one another’s company without feeling the need to say anything?
Sometimes a change in seasons happens so slowly that we don’t even notice it unless we are intentionally focused. We offer this weekly breather as a way to focus in and pay attention to the ways God is bringing forth a slow awakening to life in you.
What’s so good about Good Friday? Well, we actually get the term because the word ‘good’ used to mean ‘holy.’ So, on this holy day, let us sit and welcome the dark place of Golgotha.
Stop. Breathe. Be. God has something to speak into your soul. We invite you to take a moment and focus on what God has to say and what might be stirring in your spirit as you contemplate the stained glass work of Jacques Le Breton.
Christians have long used creative works in order to connect to God and nourish their souls through contemplation. Those images and works do not always require any overt religious features in order to help us enter into the thin places where our souls flourish.
Are you thirsty? Do you feel like you have been wandering in the desert without a drop of water? Have you tried to quench your thirst with that which is bitter? Come to the Father for the sweet, living water that will quench your soul.
Stop. Breathe. Be. It doesn’t matter what state you find yourself in; God still desires to draw near. Why not meet Him with honesty? Today’s Weekly Breather offers an exercise in being honest with God in lament.
Stop. Breathe. Be. Today’s Weekly Breather exercise helps us consider how God may be calling us to make space for welcoming the other.