The State of the Soul

Have you ever wondered what your soul is?  Where it is?  And have you ever wondered if there was anything you could do to figure out how to get more in touch with your soul?  I know that I have… 

This A.M. we heard from Mark Yaconelli.  Let me tell you what, when he got to the point where he said, I’m going to wrap it up with this one thought, Josh and I both said to each other, NO!  Don’t stop…  Keep going.  Keep laying into us.  Keep challenging me.  

See, here’s what was said… 

He said that the soul is that place hidden deep within us that is deeply knit to God, that place which is in serious contact with God.  We were challenged with these questions.  “How do we slow down and hear from the soul?”  “How do we work to hear from the soul?”  

Mark went on to talk about how the pace of life that most of us keep don’t allow us to actually stop and literally “smell the roses”.  What about the things that God has created, creation, family, friends, emotions, etc… do we take time to appreciate these things?  To listen to our soul… to listen to what God may be saying to us through these things.  

What about this…  In our society, we judge success on the fact that we have arrived at the end.  Am I training myself and my kids that what matters most is the end?  Or is it the getting there?  Is it feeling the wind in my hair??? (when I had hair…) Is it about the moments spent in silence looking at the stars wondering how far is heaven?  Is it looking at the waves and wondering what keeps them coming?  Man… I was stopped in my tracks.  I needed to hear this.  I needed to hear that I have to slow down, otherwise I am in danger of destroying my soul.  Loosing my soul.  Forgetting my soul.  Abandoning my soul.  I’m unwilling to do that. 

What do you think?  What’s the state of your soul?  Do you buy into it?  

Oh, by the way, I have reserved seats in the very front row for DAVID CROWDER TONIGHT!  GOD IS SO GOOD!  

~PETER