Welcome to our weekly Friday Check-in for March 14th, 2025 ✅
If you are new to Soul Care, WELCOME!! We are so glad you are here. We have a weekly rhythm of checking in together on Fridays. We use Soul Care's Page, Person, Plan framework to create a weekly rhythm and prepare ourselves for Sabbath rest.
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Here’s our weekly check in... take a few deep breaths as you pause in stillness and silence...
Let's begin with,
Page: An Invitation to Reflection
Continue to meditate on Joshua 1:5-9, and return to it as often as you need.
Today, read or listen to Deuteronomy 10:12-22 three times.
...What do you think God expects from you? Just this: Live in his presence in holy reverence, follow the road he sets out for you, love him, serve God, your God, with everything you have in you, obey the commandments and regulations of God that I’m commanding you today—live a good life.
Look around you: Everything you see is God’s—the heavens above and beyond, the Earth, and everything on it. But it was your ancestors who God fell in love with; he picked their children—that’s you!—out of all the other peoples. That’s where we are right now. So cut away the thick calluses from your heart and stop being so willfully hardheaded. God, your God, is the God of all gods, he’s the Master of all masters, a God immense and powerful and awesome. He doesn’t play favorites, takes no bribes, makes sure orphans and widows are treated fairly, takes loving care of foreigners by seeing that they get food and clothing.
You must treat foreigners with the same loving care—
remember, you were once foreigners in Egypt.
Reverently respect God, your God, serve him, hold tight to him,
back up your promises with the authority of his name.
He’s your praise! He’s your God!
He did all these tremendous, these staggering things
that you saw with your own eyes.
When your ancestors entered Egypt, they numbered a mere seventy souls. And now look at you—you look more like the stars in the night skies in number. And your God did it.
Spend a few minutes journaling in response to this passage:
- What stands out to you most? Is there a particular word or phrase?
- As you read through it a second time… ask God, “to what area of my life does that particular word or phrase connect?”
- And as you read a third time, be asking God, “Is there an invitation for me?” Is there a response of some kind that God is inviting you into?
Next up is,
Person: An Invitation to Connection
How are you leaning into relationships this month to help you stay en-couraged? Do you have safe spaces where you can share your thoughts and feelings freely? If not, have you considered the practice of Spiritual Direction? If a Spiritual Director - or someone significant in your life - has helped you live courageously, we’d love to hear about that in the comments below!
Finally we have,
Plan: An Invitation to Intention
This month: let’s pray with courage.
Not on our own, but together in spirit with one another and in the same Spirit of those who have gone before us. We can learn from other believers who have prayed with fervor, passion, and great fearlessness.
St. Francis of Assisi prayed:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
End this time of reflection and prayer by making St. Francis’ prayer your own.
Thanks for checking in today.
Have a blessed Friday,
Team Soul Care