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Spiritual Formation Carolyn Watts Spiritual Formation Carolyn Watts

Living Your True Size

“Rest isn’t something Jesus gives us, separate from himself. Rest is what comes as we learn to live our true size in Jesus’ love: small and fragile and (rightly) dependent, and cherished and made great in his love.

“Come to me, all you weary and burdened ones, and I will rest you. . .”

It’s a permanent offer, and one without condemnation. No fear of our humanness. No shame or embarrassment or impatience with our need to rest. Just invitation. “Come. I will rest you.” Those days apart I tasted the real world, the world of welcome and invitation and the love that invites us into rest….”

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Spiritual Formation Bette Lynn Dickinson Spiritual Formation Bette Lynn Dickinson

5 Questions to Begin Again in the New year

Maybe like me, you see 2022 as a fresh start. After a relentless couple years of change and grief, are you a little more hopeful for this new year? Maybe?

But how do we start? As the famous saying goes, “Over and over, we begin again.”

But how do you begin again? With intention and a learner’s posture. I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and I’ve come up with 5 questions I hope that will help us “begin again” with intentionality in 2022.

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