First jar full of rocks “We developed negative coping skills because they worked to help us survive.” Second jar empty “Healing isn’t ‘getting rid’ of ways we cope.” Third jar full of colored rocks “Healing is finding and *adding* healthier ways to cop so we rely less and less on coping in ways that aren’t good for us.” @LindsayBraman
“Who do I want to be?” p. 56
Psalm 23:6
John 14:27
Restoration & Liberation
Call to Worship
(Breathe in) I am a divine human being
(Breathe 0ut) Rest is Resurrection
Prayer of the Day
God, I am seeking peace.
I hunger for liberation.
I want grace.
I think I have to work for it.
But the liberation of Holy Spirit
The Resurrection of Jesus
is all contained in the promise,
that we can rest safely
in the arms of God
anytime, anywhere, anyplace.
Call to Confession: God will give you peace, come let us find it and confess ourselves to God.
Prayer of Confession: God, I confess that I am not very comfortable with emobodied liberation, with the trust that things will happen that I can’t see or hear, and that grace and peace will chase me, that DreamSpace is a generous place to just be. Help me to just be, and trust that God will work liberation on our behalf. (Silent Confession) Amen.
Assurance of Pardon: Hear the Good News. God will liberate us from all sin, let us proclaim the truth: In Jesus Christ we are forgiven.
Suggested Rest Practices:
Examine a leaf/blade of grass closely
Play Ad Libs, Tell Knock Knock jokes/Jokes with partners, Tell stories of childhood, fun, joy, rest (funny places you’ve slept)
Go back through and pick a practice you missed
Read Mary Oliver’s The Orchard
Read What If All I Want is a Mediocre Life
Read any of the practices in the Book
Notes
Other Resources
Raising of Dorcas/Tabitha: Did She want to Get up?
4,000 Weeks
Doing Laundry While Drowning
This Here Flesh
Trauma Informed Yoga
Letters from the Ecotone: Ecology, Theology and Climate Change
The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy And “Women’s Work”
More Memes/Notes that I am adding along the way
Rest, Sabbath, Jubilee, Liberation
@CanPanicNow “The Bible forbids debts lasting longer than 7 years, therefore it is my deeply held religious belief that I cannot pay student loans.
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