Day 7: Simply be. – Rest, recover and reset, knowing that you were created to love. Allow yourself the gift of being exactly who God is creating you to be.
Day 6: We reflect on all we’ve learned. - May the tools, the lessons, the insights and conversations be for our good, and for this world’s good.
Day 5: We choose the higher path, the higher self, and to walk the higher way. – We stand at a crossroad between who we are and who God is calling us to be. And, the question we must ask in the depths of ourselves is, “Who will we choose to be?
Day 4: We are called to reflect the image of God in a more complete way. – In our routine and our rhythm, we are called to reflect the best image of God in what we do and how we do it.
Day 3: God helps us lose, so that we may gain. - Like Adam, we must lose a part of ourselves to gain wholeness. We explore what things inside us are fading away so that we can become more complete – healed, whole, restored – growing in the image of God.
Day 2: We expand in thought, in sight, and in deed. – What does the Lord require of you? To be who you are becoming, to grow into the best image of God, a person full of compassion, deep in wisdom and understanding, grounded in awareness of oneself, and grounded in awareness of what can be by God’s grace. What does the lrod require of you but to be who you are becoming, expanded in thought, in sight and in deed.
Day 1: We continue to stretch our hearts to prepare for deeper love. — Love of the other, of oneself, of mercy, compassion and of justice are not an abstract concepts. God requires us to love in a deeper way, a way that leads to more justice, mercy and humility within this world.
Day 7: Simply be. – Rest, recover and reset. Open yourself to God’s grace.
Day 6: We pause to reflect. – In a time of silence, we pause to consider all we’ve learned and make these lessons our own deep within our body, mind and soul.
Day 5: We open ourselves to the gift of a humble spirit. – We embrace the gift of simple humility, allowing that humble spirit to expand and deepen within us.
Day 4: We allow grace to overflow within us. – We seek a clean heart and a right and renewed spirit that assumes the best in all that we do and all that is before us.
Day 3: We pray: “God to be gracious to me, to us.” - The sound of our prayer takes us into a deeper silence as we reflect on how the grace of God overflows into the ways we see, speak and act toward others.
Day 2: We embrace the communal gift of grace. – Recognizing that God’s grace is a gift to all people, we embrace the collective aspects of grace.
Day 1: We absorb the grace of God. – The grace of God undergirds all that we do and all that we are. We absorb the simple prayer, “Be gracious to me, O God,” so that we may be grounded in grace when we respond to others.
Day 7: Simply be. – Rest, recover and reset. Allow yourself the gift of being exactly who God is creating you to be.
Day 6: We allow what we have learned to seep into our souls – We absorb all that is needed in the depths of our heart and soul and release what needs to be released.
Day 5: A cool spirit creates understanding. – The gift of cooling down our spirit when it is needed allows us to operate from a higher place of wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
Day 4: Exploring the power of patience – We imagine how, in our lives, patience can deepen, expand and become more intense.
Day 3: We make space for God to abide in us. – We clean out the emotional and spiritual clutter that denies us the space for the presence of patience, peace, and deeper love.
Day 2: We seek patience. – One of the fruits of the spirit is patience, or long-suffering. Let us lengthen and stretch our spirits together now so that we may have just a little more endurance, a little more strength, to bear with another in love.