JOURNEY TO WHOLENESS MIND+BODY+SOUL
Today I want us to go on a journey together. I want you to think of your nearest and dearest friends, those you can handle going on a journey with each other, without killing each other. Those peeps...bring those peeps on our journey....
If you could go on a journey with your "people" where would you go?
This week I want us to go on a journey of purpose, hope, care, intentionality. Ultimately a journey to WHOLENESS. The journey that feels as important as the destination, one that takes our breath away because we feel fully alive from the tips of our toes to the top of our head.
And in this journey you felt truly ALIVE? Like what you were doing mattered? Really made a difference? You felt alive in your body, your heart and soul, your mind? The hardwork and dedication and time you put in this journey was well worth it, you felt it and everyone around you felt it. You were learning and being challenged daily, and although some days were super challenging and maybe it felt like your journey would end right there, you pushed through. You did it! You inspired yourself and you inspired everyone around you. You felt like you succeeded. You took care of yourself and had energy and passion. YOU FELT truly YOU, and you actually liked what you saw and felt?
-Maybe at one point you felt like this. Maybe you have fond memories of this time in your life, when you felt alive and whole. maybe it was when you were young and free and when life wasn’t full of commitments, pressure, diapers, carpool, expectations, disappointments. Maybe you remember feeling fully alive and WHOLE at some point in your life; you felt productive, like you were firing on all pistons in all areas of your life.
-Maybe you have never felt this before but you have desired it.
-Or maybe it seems so far off your radar that you get just get irritated when people talk about living fully and purposefully. Like what does that even mean? How logistically does that happen? Some of us sell ourself short and say we are’t worthy for that life.
MY QUESTION: Why must we live a life that is not fully WHOLE, full of purpose and fully who God created us to be?
Does everyday feel like this purposeful, journey to wholeness? Heck no…do I feel like I am just surviving some days. Absolutely… Do I sometimes feel like it’s not the season for me or will EVER be the season for me to be WHO God created me to be? Absolutely!
I am huge believer in seasons. Oh my gosh if I wasn’t a believer in seasons I would have puttered out a LONG time ago. Somewhere along the way someone just kept telling me it’s just a season. I promise when your kids get older you will SLEEP again. This will NOT last forever. Remember those days…when sleep was the only thing you wanted in life. I remember when my second little one was born…I had a three year old and her..she was not following the incredible baby wise schedule her brother the perfect did. She did her own thing. I remember literally living in a fog for those 8 months of my life. I remember when she slept through the night 2 nights in a row I felt like the fog had lifted. I could see clearly again. I was no longer a zombie from the Walking Dead…it was a season of diapers and spit-up and not showering, and apologizing to my husband as to why his wife who apparently used to be a driven, ambitious, get it done, woman could not even get a shower before he came home from work. That was a time I felt super defeated. I did not feel like I was on a journey to ANYWHERE. I did not feel fully alive in that season.. Some of you are in carpool hell right now, where you have no schedule because your kids have eaten your schedule. My friend Sara who is in a different stage of life then me has 4 older kids. She says she feels like the day goes by so fast she can’t get enough hours in with her kids. With home-work, swim team, dinners, pick-ups, by the time they get home from school the hours just slip by. For me, if Grant is gone, those 4 hours from pick up to bedtime is like 4 LONG excruciating days. All of us are in some season, in our own journeys, some are sweet seasons right now, some are the most devastating and painful season, some are just in survival mode.
But I believe no matter what season we are in we all are chasing a life of purpose, a life that God promised us in John 10:10.
This week I want to focus on journeying to wholeness in Christ, because I think when we journey to wholeness that’s when we get to live fully and purposefully.
I love the scripture 2 Corinthians 13:9 “Our prayer is simple that you may be whole and complete.”
WHOLENESS: Wanting nothing=an undivided or unbroken completeness. What would it mean to feel WHOLE…to not want anything…to feel ENOUGH in all the areas we are trying so hard to be great at….
Can you imagine a life that you felt completely whole, comparison didn’t distract you, you didn’t want someone eles’s body, home, life, house, talents, husband…you were completely content and whole in who God made you?
God created us as WHOLE beings… not just a body, not just a soul, not just a mind. The beautiful thing is we get to connect all of these.
This week I want to help us connect the dots of living a life to Wholeness. Helping us merge all areas MIND BODY SOUL. How we can use all of these things as One to live fully in who God created us to be and ultimately glorifying Him in the process.
It will be a journey, it will be a process, it will be hard and you will dig deep but it will be one of the most beautiful journey you have ever joined. Come back this week and journey with us as we intentionally journey together....