Podcasts about weylin lee

In this season of Easter and resurrection, Weylin Lee reflects on how we are forming new patterns and a new way of life that Jesus invites us toward [John 21:1-19]. Reflection: How might making space for sacraments help disrupt our default patterns? What does our version of feeding and tending to the vulnerable look like?   What is our tension with following the nonviolent path of Christ? Practice: Making space for the sacraments.  How does the Eucharist disrupt our need for self-achievement and self-protection? How might liturgy disrupt our isolation and individualistic faith? Love in the ordinary ways. How do we faithfully contribute to the restoration and healing of the hurting and marginalized? What does our version of feeding and tending to the vulnerable look like? Resources: Film: Revolution of Our Times (viewer discretion advised)

During this season of Lent, Weylin Lee reflects on how we are invited to welcome discomfort as we reflect on Jesus' journey towards death [John 12:1-11]. Reflection: How are you invited into the vulnerability of practicing or receiving extravagant love? What is your invitation to practice sabbatical year rhythms that center around the poor? Practice: Be vulnerable in extravagant love. Who are we invited to extend extravagant love toward? Who are we invited to receive extravagant love from? Sabbatical year rhythm.  What would practicing a version of the sabbatical year rhythm look like for us? How might we embody Jesus' teaching to feed the hungry and give to those in need? Resources: Video: WeCrashed

During this season of Lent, Weylin Lee reflects on how we are invited to embody Jesus' solidarity with the powerless [Luke 4:1-11]. Reflection: What is our relationship with power and powerlessness in our lives? How are we invited to embody powerlessness or be in solidarity with those without power? Practice: Solidarity with the hungry. Find ways to use our surplus to ensure an abundance for all. Volunteer with an organization like Keep Austin Fed. Downward mobility. How are we driven by our need for power and control? How might we consider letting go of power and privilege that we normally take advantage of? Resources: Organization: Keep Austin Fed Speech: President Volodymyr Zelensky's Inaugural Speech

Weylin Lee reflects on our invitation to move toward Christ in this season of disruption and disconnection even in the midst of fatigue and uncertainty  [Luke 5:1-11]. Reflection How are you creating space for the mystery and presence of God? What is Christ inviting you to consent to in this season? How is your calling being shaped right now? Practice Welcoming mystery and presence.  How are we making space for both the mystery and presence of God? How are we making space for non-dualistic conversations and interactions? Lowering friction in our lives. Identify the sources of friction that keep us from consenting to the way of Christ.  Consider how to lower the friction in our response to Christ's invitations Resources Game: Wordle Book: The Cloud of Unknowing Video: Sky Brown Skates Mega Ramp Podcast: Hidden Brain (Creatures of Habit)

Weylin Lee reflects on how the gifts of the Spirit invite us to a practice and experience of unity with each other [1 Corinthians 12:1-11]. Reflection: How would a lens of revelation impact how you see the gifts in others? What is an outlet where your gifts might contribute to the common good? Even in this challenging season, what might collective participation look like for you? Practice: Examine and adjust our lens. How might we be looking through a lens of rivalry? How might we adjust towards a lens of revelation? List out how we experience God through the gifts of others. Consider an outlet for your gifts.  What are some outlets where your gifts might contribute to the common good? Resources Film: Encanto

Weylin Lee reflects on what we are putting on ourselves that centers us around and embodies the love of God through the contemplative practice of Lectio Divina [Colossians 3:12-17]. Reflection: How might you clothe yourself with more compassion and kindness in this coming year? What would it look like for you to practice more gratitude in the coming year? Resources: Photos: Year in Photos (NY Times) Lectio Divina

As we continue in the season of Advent, Weylin Lee reflects on what practices might invite us to embody joy as we continue to navigate distress and disruption both in and outside our lives [Philippians 4:4-7]. Reflection Who are those in our lives that we might need to embody gentleness towards? How might we hold the tension of practicing gratitude in the midst of difficult circumstances? Practice Joy. How might our reflection on the full story and life of Christ become a source of joy in our lives? Gentleness. How might we imagine a posture of empowered gentleness would look like with those who are a source of distress in our lives? Gratitude. What experiences and people can we express gratitude for in the past year as we have navigated a challenging season?

Weylin Lee reflects on how we are invited to confront the different forms of oppression that Jesus warns about and how some may even be expressed by our own community [Mark 12:38-44]. Reflection: What are the ways we can be consumed with ourselves? How might we be able to lay down power in exchange for mutuality? Who are the vulnerable that we need to draw attention to and advocate for? Practice: Identify our expression of narcissism.  What are the ways that we can be consumed with ourselves?  What are the ways we might embody the humility of Christ that doesn't carry entitlement? Releasing power for mutuality.  What do we do with the power and influence that we might have in our own circles and systems? What would it look like for us to lay down our power and engage in mutuality? Resources: Book: When Narcissism Comes to Church (Chuck DeGroat)

Weylin Lee reflects on how we are invited to center ourselves and our community around Christ in this next season together and we navigate reconnection and transition [Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12]. Reflection: How can we center ourselves around the embodiment of Jesus' life and teachings? Where can we let go of power and privilege to embrace downward mobility? Whom are the suffering that we can be in solidarity with? Practice: Reflect on who we center ourselves around.  Who are the people we have intentionally or unintentionally chosen to center ourselves around? How can Vox be centered around embodying the life and teachings of Jesus? Downward mobility.  Let go of power and privilege that you normally lean on. Experience a humiliation for your ego Resources: Book: A Church Called Tov (Scot McKnight) Book: The Cross and the Lynching Tree (James Cone)  

Weylin Lee reflects on our invitation to practice ordinary faith that's grounded in mercy as we push against celebrity culture [James 2:1-17]. Reflection: What does it mean for us to push against celebrity culture in our community? How can we make space to reflect on and receive mercy in our lives? How are we integrating the teachings and life of Jesus as an expression of our faith? Practice: Examine our culture. Reflect on the culture of our Vox community and who it is that we welcome and engage.  How have we shown preference for certain types of people at the expense of others? Reflect on God's mercy.  Make space to reflect on the ways we have recognized and received God's mercy toward us.  How might we need to unpack and process the barriers that keep us from fully receiving mercy in our lives? Resources: Podcast: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/rise-and-fall-of-mars-hill/

Weylin Lee reflects on how we are invited to remain in the space of mystery as we begin to decompress from the past year and reimagine how our community might reconnect in new ways [Mark 4:26-34]. Reflection How might we release control in order to experience divine transformation? How are we invited to welcome the unexpected and offer safe space to the vulnerable? Practice Releasing Control. Practice centering prayer or the welcome prayer. Embody the release of control by opening your hands. Welcome the Unexpected. Imagine our participation as we reopen liturgy again. Consider ways to practice obnoxious hospitality. Consider how to offer safe space to the most vulnerable. Resources Article: Think Outside the Banana (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/dining/banana-peel-recipe-nigella-nadiya.html

Weylin Lee, Lena Martinez-Wolfinger, Madyson Russell and Kimberly Culbertson reflect together on how Vox is invited to reimagine service in a season of transition and change [Jeremiah 29:4-7]. Reflection What have you appreciated and valued about the Vox community? How has this pandemic created an awareness of needs that you had not noticed before? Practice What’s in the pantry? What personal resources do you currently have? What have you appreciated and valued about the Vox community? Observe the needs. What have you observed in the neighborhood around you? How has this pandemic created an awareness of needs that you had not noticed before? Resources The Church Lab https://thechurchlab.org Texas Impact https://texasimpact.org Vesper http://vesperaustin.com/ Vox Values http://voxveniae.com/values/ Vox Midweek Groups http://voxveniae.com/mid-week-groups/ Austin Mutual Aid https://www.facebook.com/AustinMutualAid/

Weylin Lee reflects on our practice of love in light of what is happening around us and how we’re invited to reflect the love Christ modeled for us [John 15:9-17]. Reflection How do you imagine God's loving gaze toward you? What would it look like to lay down your ego and practice non-transactional love? How are we creating a more loving community and becoming more loving people? Practice Image of the Towel and Water Basin.  Reflect on the ways you've been loved.  Meditate on the image of the towel and water basin and imagine Jesus washing your feet.  Receive the loving gaze of God. Non-transactional Love.  Reflect on where our love and relationships are transactional.  What would it look like to lay down our ego, our selfish motives, our narcissistic tendencies? Resources Book: Love is the Way (Bishop Michael Curry)  

Weylin Lee, Kristy Robinson and Joe Arenella reflect together on how they are receiving and integrating Psalm 23 in the context of how this past year has invited them into the green pastures and dark valleys [Psalm 23]. Reflection What are the green pastures you're invited to remember from this past year? How have you seen glimpses of God's grace and hope in the midst of the valley?

On Easter Sunday, Weylin Lee reflects on how the unexpected nature of Jesus’ resurrection invites us towards groundedness and good news [John 20:1-18].   Reflection How have we been accompanied in the losses we have experienced? How are we invited to a path of healing and restoration that Jesus offers? What restorative work are we being invited to participate in?   Practice Reflect on losses and accompaniment.  Hold space for both the unexpected losses and the ways you were accompanied. Write out all the unexpected losses this past year has brought. List the names of those who have accompanied you in them. Observe the gardens around us.  Notice and observe the gardens and natural landscape around us.  Sit with and reflect on the restoration that is happening through our plants.  How are we invited to a path of healing and restoration that Jesus offers us?   Resources Film: Feels Good Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEiqZWw5vYs  

Weylin Lee reflects on how even though we typically fast and deny our body during Lent, we might also be invited to connect with our bodies and practice embodiment to connect with God [John 2:13-22].   During the season of Lent, we're typically encouraged to fast as a form of denying our physical body in order to connect spiritually with God.  But how might we also be invited to connect with our bodies and practice embodiment during Lent?   Reflection How are you invited to embody disruption towards injustice this Lent? What are the "thin places" you can explore and experiment with this Lent?   Practice Embodying disruption. Make space and sit with our deeper responses to injustice. How might we embody disruption that’s in alignment with God’s heart for the oppressed? How might we give space to our anger to disrupt unhealthy patterns and injustice? Explore “thin places”. Experiment and explore what the thin places are for you in experiencing God's presence.  Discover God's embodied presence in people and places we haven't considered before.

Weylin Lee reflects on how Jesus' transfiguration invites us to transformation and change as we enter this season of Lent [Mark 9:2-9]. Reflection How might you be invited to expand your symbols of God? How is listening to Jesus being embodied in your life? How are you being invited to sit in the paradox of wholeness and woundedness? Practice Expanding our symbols for God. Use a different image or word to refer to and connect with God. How does this new image or word expand the container you’ve placed God inside? Listening to Jesus exercise. Read the Gospels during Lent and pay attention to what Jesus said and did.  Use a different translation or listen to the text. In your listening, wrestle with and discern how to embody his words and actions.   Resources Book: Wearing God (Lauren Winner) https://smile.amazon.com/Wearing-God-Clothing-Laughter-Overlooked/dp/0061768138/  

As we enter a new year, Weylin Lee reflects on what our invitation is toward a new way of being and experiencing transformation [Mark 1:4-11]. Reflection What area of your life is in need of truth-telling? How are you invited to consent to God's unconditional love in this year? Practice Confession.  Acknowledge your choice of deception over truth.  Invite yourself to return to the original goodness God created you with.  How can you sit in the tension of those two things this week as you reflect on what's happening in our world and what's happening within you? Examine your discomfort.  Examine the moments and seasons of discomfort that you have encountered.  Be curious about how the Spirit might be inviting us to change and transformation in that discomfort. Resources Podcast: On Being (Louis Newman) https://onbeing.org/programs/louis-newman-the-refreshing-practice-of-repentance/   MWG Discussion Questions What facilitates spaces of truth-telling for ourselves?  When have you experienced a meaningful moment of truth-telling? How might the experiences and seasons of discomfort be opening opportunities for change and transformation?  Why might it be difficult to recognize the Spirit’s work in those moments? How has your understanding and practice of repentance and confession been driven by guilt and shame?  How might God’s unconditional love and our invitation back to our original goodness change our experience of repentance and confession?

Weylin Lee reflects on the hope of restoration as we come to the end of this heavy year through the contemplative practice of Lectio Divina [Isaiah 61:10-62:3]. Reflection In light of this past year, what are the things we hope for in this coming year? How might we be open to a new way of being? Resources Photos: Year in Photos (NY Times) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/year-in-pictures.html Lectio Divina https://voxveniae.com/lectio-divina/  

As we continue in the Advent season, Weylin Lee reflects on the things that God is and has been revealing about ourselves and others and God this past year [John 1:6-8, 19-23].   Reflection What are the glimpses of divine light we have seen even in our moments of darkness? How might we live more from our authentic self and embrace who God has made us to be? What are the voices we are hearing that are crying out in the margins for God's justice and mercy?   Practice Lighting candles. Gather some tea light candles. Remember the glimpses of hope and comfort and guidance that you experienced in darkness. Light a candle for each glimpse of comfort. Reflection of personal actions. Examine an action or choice or decision that involved other people. “Was I living out of my ego or was I living out of my rooted and fully loved authentic self?”   MWG Discussion Questions What has this past year revealed to you about yourself and the world around you?  What was expected?  What was unexpected? What has been a glimpse of divine light in your experiences this past year?  How have you seen God’s comfort, guidance and hope in the moments of darkness? How has the pandemic removed the exterior layers that we tend to live from?  What parts of your authentic self has been revealed to you this past year?  How have you been holding the tension of living out of who God has made you to be?

Weylin Lee reflects on how we are invited to live in the gap between what is and what could be, especially in a divisive season and political landscape [Psalm 70].   Reflection What is our lament in this current moment and season? How are we moving away from or toward God’s active presence as we live in this gap? Resources Book: Healing the Heart of Democracy (Parker Palmer) https://smile.amazon.com/Healing-Heart-Democracy-Courage-Politics/dp/1118907507/  Book: Prophetic Lament (Soong Chan Rah) https://smile.amazon.com/Prophetic-Lament-Justice-Troubled-Times/dp/0830836942/    MWG Discussion Questions What is your tendency towards expressing lament during moments or seasons of struggle and challenge?  How has your personal or faith upbringing impacted your practice and approach to lament? How do the images of consolation (moving toward God’s presence) and desolation (moving away from God’s presence) provide a framework for discerning your internal movements during times of distress?  How might you describe what a movement of consolation has looked like in your own life?  How about a movement of desolation? How would you describe the tension between effectiveness and faithfulness as you have seen it in your own experience?  What might a practice of faithfulness look like for you right now in this moment and season of your life?

Weylin Lee reflects on how Jesus reminds us to center ourselves and our lives around love especially in these divisive and heavy times [Matthew 22:34-40]. ReflectionIn this current season, what would it look like to shift from being right to being more loving?How might you practice fully loving both your neighbors and yourself? Spiritual PracticePut on a lens of love. Take out our lens of judgement, or comparison, or critique. Use a lens of love to soften our gaze towards people.Explore love with playfulness. Incorporate playfulness in how you engage and connect with God this week. Consider the different ways God has made you to express love and care. ResourcesVideo: Ted Lasso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u7EIiohs6U   MWG Discussion QuestionsWhat are the tensions we experience when we explore whether it’s more important to be right or be more loving with certain people in our lives?  How are those practices opposed to one another and how might they be in alignment with each other?What does it mean to us when we hear that God invites us to love with all our heart, soul, mind and strength?  If we adopt a more playful posture and perspective, what might be some expressions of love that we have not considered before?How have you experienced loving your neighbor and loving yourself?  How might one come at the expense of the other and how has that looked like in your life?  Which of these practices might you need to lean into more this current season and why?

Weylin Lee reflects on how our generosity can more accurately reflect the divine generosity that God offers us [Matthew 20:1-16].   Reflection How might we practice generosity in a way that’s more expansive and inclusive? How does our value and desire for fairness impact our ability to receive and practice generosity?   Spiritual Practice Expand your circle of generosity.  Examine who you already practice generosity with ease.  Consider stepping outside your circle of generosity with one person this week Imagine being the late worker (Ignatian practice of reflecting on Scripture).  Imagine standing in the marketplace all day waiting to be hired.  Imagine being offered a job at the end of the day.  Imagine getting paid for the whole day after working only an hour.  How does that imagination impact your perspective and experience of divine generosity?

Weylin Lee reflects on how we might be blocking the flow of mercy in our lives and what barriers we might have built that limit the flow [Matthew 15:10-28].   Reflection What expectations and hidden biases do we have that limit our flow of mercy? How might we practice mercy as a mutual flow that feeds the cycle of giving and receiving?   Spiritual Practice Journal Our Expectations of Others.  Reflect on people we have difficulty extending mercy to. List out what expectations we’ve put on them. Examine which expectations are actually limiting your ability to practice mercy. Seeking Understanding.  Life experiences or relational trauma we haven’t been through. Cultural backgrounds and upbringing we’re not familiar with. Being a different gender or ethnicity in the workplace.   Resources Podcast: Cancel Culture (NYT The Daily) Podcast: Mahzarin Banaji (On Being)  

Weylin Lee reflects on what a meaningful posture and practice of welcome might look like for us in our current season [Matthew 10:40-42].   Reflection How might we be able to create brave space in our practice of welcoming others? How is welcoming others inviting us into vulnerability?   Resources Practice: The People’s Supper Film: Just Mercy      

Weylin Lee reflects on what God is inviting us into during our season or experience of waiting.  Kelli Knight and Kristy Robinson also share their reflections on this text [Acts 1:6-14].   Reflection How can we participate in unexpected ways during our season of waiting? What might be some things we’re invited to let go of as we wait in loss? What could be some meaningful practices of prayer as we wait?   Spiritual Practice Welcome Prayer.  Welcome, welcome, welcome. I welcome everything that comes to me today because I know it's for my healing. I welcome all thoughts, feelings, emotions, persons, situations, and conditions. I let go of my desire for power and control. I let go of my desire for affection, esteem, approval and pleasure. I let go of my desire for survival and security. I let go of my desire to change any situation, condition, person or myself. I open to the love and presence of God and God's action within.  Amen.   Resources Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay        

Weylin Lee reflects on the spaces in our lives right now where we’re invited to experience peace.  Kelly Cutbirth, John & Catie Brewster and Liz Schepel also share their reflections on this text [John 20:19-29].   Reflection How might we engage our senses in order to experience peace and extend peace to others? What are our spaces of disbelief that might offer ways to experience peace in an unexpected way? How might wounds serve as a reminder that our story isn’t finished?   Spiritual Practice Embodied Peace. What do you need to touch, see, hear, smell or taste to feel peace?  How can you share embodied peace with someone else?   Resources Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay Podcast: Brene Brown and David Kessler on Grief        

Weylin Lee reflects on our spiritual growth and how we can tell if our faith is maturing or not [1 Corinthians 3:1-9].   Reflection What life-giving rhythms are we feeding ourselves to experience growth? Who do we view through a lens of rivalry and how can we look for the movement of God that’s stirring in us and them?   Spiritual Practice Craft a Rhythm of Life.  Select intentional rhythms and practices that are appropriate for your emotional development. Personal rhythms (scripture, prayer, generosity). Communal rhythms (liturgy, sharing resources). Missional rhythms (hospitality, neighbor, partnerships).   Resources Book: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality (Peter Scazerro) Rhythm of Life Podcast: Fresh Air (Bryan Stevenson) Film: Parasite  

Weylin Lee reflects on how are we invited to live a life of service that’s sustainable and connected to what God is doing [Isaiah 49:1-7].   Reflection If you listen to your life, what is it revealing about your calling? How might you live a life of service in more sustainable ways? Similar to light, in what ways are you simply revealing God’s love?   Spiritual Practice Personal Compass.  Use the image of a compass to reflect on your life.  Reflect on the four directions and what they each represent.  Allow your life to speak back to you and help you begin to discern your calling. (exercise link below) Centering Prayer.  Practice consenting to God’s presence and action.  Consider service from a second half of life framework.   Resources Book: Let Your Life Speak (Parker Palmer) Book: Journaling as a Spiritual Practice (Helen Cepero) Personal Compass Exercise  

As we continue in the Advent season, Weylin Lee reflects on how we are invited to respond when our expectations of God don’t line up with reality [Matthew 11:2-6].   Reflection How can we practice curiosity around our unfulfilled expectations of God and our circumstances? Where and who are the margins in our life that we have overlooked? What expectations do we need to let go of?   Spiritual Practice Practice curiosity around your expectations.  Think of something that might be disappointing, frustrating, or confusing for you right now.  Reflect on how this disappointment might be tied to an expectation that we have of God. Be curious about the source of that expectation. Observe the margins.  Who are the people in the margins of our life?  How can we observe that God is already present in their lives?     Resources Film: It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Weylin Lee reflects on how the lenses that we use to see ourselves and others might be helping or hurting our posture of humility [Luke 18:9-14].   Reflection How have we devalued others through our lens of contempt? Does our lens of comparison lead us to competition or curiosity? How can we put on a lens of mercy toward ourselves and others? Spiritual Practice See without judgment.  Think of someone you see with contempt.  Objectively observe what you dislike about them.  Consider how you may have been conditioned to dislike those things.  Search for treasures buried in this person. See with curiosity.  Meet with someone you compare yourself with.  Hear their story with curiosity. Discover what their life has to teach you. Resources Video: Portlandia (Did You Read It?) Podcast: On Being (Father Gregory Boyle) Vox Value: Posture

As we start our fall vision series exploring contemplation, Weylin Lee reflects on how creating space for contemplation actually involves letting go of things in our lives [Matthew 16:24-26].   Reflection What are the things we are hesitant to let go of because it’s how we protect ourselves and preserve our way of living? Where do our loyalties lie and how do we end up losing sight of God’s vision for our life when we’re so tied to our loyalties? What's the frantic and anxious work that we’ve been devoting our energy to and how can we create space for rest instead?   Resources Video: Wave Pool in China Movie: JoJo Rabbit Video: Costco Opening in China MWG: Discussion Guide   Spiritual Practice Be Still Prayer.  “Be still and know that I am God.  Be still and know that I am. Be still and know.  Be still. Be.” Sit in a posture of letting go. Pause and reflect after each phrase is read until you’re left with “Be”. Prayer of Examen.  Review your day and recall moments you experienced God’s presence.  Reflect on the loyalties in your life that you’re tied to. Consider how you can discern God in all aspects of your life.

Weylin Lee explores what it means for us to grow in a meaningful way if the substance of our faith is Christ [Colossians 2:6-19].   Reflection How can you allow gratitude to overflow in your life? In what ways can you engage the dying process in order to experience life? In what ways is our practice of freedom moving us towards Christ?   Resources Podcast: On Being (David Steindl-Rast) Film: The Farewell   Spiritual Practice Practice of Gratitude: Stop Look Go.  Stop - slow down, stop trying so hard and be present.  Look - open your eyes, ears, senses to soak in all that we’ve been given.  Go - move into the world with gratitude that is overflowing. Imagine the Dying Process.  Imagine the death of a loved one, a job or a dream.  Sit in the emotions and feelings that surface from that imagined loss. Invite the disappearance of clinging that is tied to anxiety and insecurity and fear.  

For Pentecost Sunday, Weylin Lee explores why God’s spirit and presence is a meaningful gift for us [John 14:8-17]. Reflection How can you practice becoming more aware of God’s presence in your life today? What does it mean for you to embody God’s Spirit and be a gift of presence to others? Resources Book: Practicing the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence) Podcast: NYT The Daily - The Legacy of Rachel Held Evans Spiritual Practice Prayer of Presence. 1. Start and end each day with consenting to God’s leadership for the day (just as you’re waking up and before falling sleeping). 2. Choose a prompt in your day (e.g. favorite color, alarm, daily chore) and pause to invite God’s presence into your actions, your words, your thoughts, your emotions. 3. Practice different time intervals. Start with a few minutes, then an hour, then a full day (inviting God’s presence in the smallest things like picking up groceries, typing, opening and closing doors). Welcoming Prayer. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I welcome everything that comes to me today because I know it's for my healing. I welcome all thoughts, feelings, emotions, persons, situations, and conditions. I let go of my desire for power and control. I let go of my desire for affection, esteem, approval and pleasure. I let go of my desire for survival and security. I let go of my desire to change any situation, condition, person or myself. I open to the love and presence of God and God's action within. Amen.

Weylin Lee reflects on the areas of discomfort that we are being invited to explore in our movement towards experiencing restoration and rest [Psalm 23]. Reflection How can we adopt more of a posture of willingness instead of willfulness to allow ourselves to let go of control? What patterns need to be disrupted in order for our soul to be restored? How can we allow ourselves to receive the goodness and mercy that is chasing after us? Resources Book: A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 MWG: Discussion Guide Spiritual Practice Posture of Willingness.  Pick a situation, activity or relationship this week to adopt a posture of willingness.  Pay attention to how letting go of control might move you into comfort and rest instead of isolation and exhaustion. Detox.  Pick an area of your life to practice a detox this week (e.g. technology, social media, food, work, social activity).  Pick an appropriate amount of time (e.g. week, day, portion of a day). In the spaces of discomfort, notice what parts of your true identity are needing to be restored.

Our friend Weylin Lee from Vox Veniae joined us for a sermon on Jesus’ time on earth in a resurrected body. Quotes and Resources Mentioned: “Not only are we loved, but we too are called to heal and to liberate. This healing power in us will not come from our capacities and our riches, but in and through our poverty. … Read More → The post Embodiment: Luke 24 (2018.07.01 Sermon) appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.