Unsafe, or Uncomfortable?

Safer Soil (2)

Following from her meditation on Sunday, Nancy DeVries asks:

Perhaps there are ideas or images of who Jesus is that can be released from your own mind and belief system? 

Perhaps there is a need for a reset, to see Jesus as a place and person of safety. To view God as a safe harbour, a warm lap, a co-regulator in moments of fear or anxiety. 

If one’s image of God changes, we can see how the change in the “soil”—our heart and mind and imagination—will also create a change in the tree, which is our experience of connection with God and others.

Is there an area in which you can expand your window of tolerance a bit more?

Is there something you can ask of those who feel a little more safe to provide you with comfort, with regulation, with “being with” you in your healing place?

Sun. Nov 13
Holding Space 
John 11:1-44

Sun. Nov 20
Holding Up Mirrors of Mercy (Not of Judgement)
Luke 14:1-6 

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