Greetings
How often do we stop and take time to examine our soul? I heard a description of the the soul this week as a old church stained glass window. God’s Spirit shines through the window and the colours reflect the many diverse elements of our soul.
The heart-cry of every soul is for intimacy with God. For this we were created and for this we were rescued from sin and death. In Ephesians, Paul lets us in on a little secret: We’ve been more than noticed. God has pursued us from farther than space and longer ago than time. Our romance is far more ancient than the story of Helen of Troy. God has had us in mind since before the Foundations of the World. He loved us before the beginning of time, has come for us, and now calls us to journey toward him, with him, for the consummation of our love.
Who am I, really? The answer to that question is found in the answer to another: What is God’s heart toward me, or, how do I affect him? If God is the Pursuer, the Ageless Romancer, the Lover, then there has to be a Beloved, one who is the Pursued. This is our role in the story.
In the end, all we’ve ever really wanted is to be loved. “Love comes from God,” writes St. John. We don’t have to get God to love us by doing something right-even loving him. “This is love: not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” Someone has noticed, someone has taken the initiative. There is nothing we need to do to keep it up, because his love for us is not based on what we’ve done, but who we are: His beloved. “I belong to my lover, and his desire is for me” (Song 7:10).
May you this week take time to consider how ‘in shape’ your soul is. Know that in this broken world our soul takes many arrows and is need of restoration. May you know that God is interested in restoring your soul now. Will you invite him?
Grace and peace
Restore My Soul
Spirit shine through my soul
Like the sun through an
Old stained glass window
Where the colours highlight
The elements of a soul
Barely used
For the part I have used so far
I have only defined by
Making you in my image
As many colours of the rainbow
Are multiplied by the kaleidoscope
Of your Spirit
They colours show each element
As their number are counted
By the stars in the sky
No wonder my soul feels
So large that only large deserts
And oceans can contain it
After all your Spirit and my soul
Reflect the kaleidoscope
Of you who define all that I Am
So restore and renew my soul now
So that I may be prepared
For the expanse of Heaven
As nothing is worth more
Than a soul fulfilled
Poetry in Motion 
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