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Welcome to our weekly Friday Check-in for April 18th, 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.
Blessings to you and yours on this Good Friday. Our team is praying that this weekend is a deeply meaningful journey for you... into the very heart of God.
Let's begin with,
Page: An Invitation to Reflection
Today, read or listen to John 13:36-38 (NIV) three times:
Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?”
Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.”
Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!
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
We are continuing to meditate on the theme from this month’s Semi-Silent Retreat: “MAKING PEACE WITH FAILURE” and Ezekiel 47. This week, we are considering: was Peter’s denial a failure? How might we be thinking of this scene in Peter's life?
Today’s text reveals Peter’s bold promise to follow Jesus even to death, yet Jesus foretells his coming denial, highlighting the tension between human intention and weakness. Was Peter’s denial a failure, or a necessary moment of humility that shaped his future strength and leadership? How have your own failures become turning points for deeper faith and transformation? How can you look on your own human weakness today, and on others’ weakness, humanity, and frailty, with compassion and acceptance?
Finally we have,
Plan: An Invitation to Intention
Pushing even further into our theme, was the cross a failure?
Intentionally pause and sit - for at least two minutes - in silence to honor Jesus' suffering, pain, and death.
Sit in silence at the foot of the cross.
You are not there alone. There are people around the world today looking upon the suffering and death of Jesus... the fullest expression of love.
May your sorrow give way to hope... Sunday is coming.
Thanks for checking in today.
Have a blessed Friday,
Team Soul Care