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Soul Care Practices to Steep in Moon Joy
The mission around the moon has people feeling awe and wonder at our incredible cosmos, has given us renewed hope at seeing people work together to do something never done before, and has allowed us the space to come together as humanity, even with all our differences, to rally around a common good. If you want to linger in this feeling a little longer, even though the mission is complete, see below for a list of Soul Care Practices to Steep in Moon Joy.
Soul Nourishing Practice: Silence
When was the last time you took an extended amount of time in silence?
And I mean real silence— no podcast on a walk, no music in the car while driving, no movie in the background while cooking dinner or working on a task. No streaming service to fill the time, or doom-scroll before bed, or pages to whisk you away to another world. Just pure silence where you intentionally shut off the sound of the world around you to steep intentionally in this space of curated emptiness?
It’s not often we do this. Our world is created to offer us the steady hum of information, advertisements, entertainment— there’s always something flying towards us at an alarming rate that when we do have a moment of silence, it can feel uncomfortable, unsettling, or like we are missing out on something. FOMO (fear of missing out) is cultivated through the noise of living and the silence makes us fear that we are being left behind.
But what if we reframed silence for the gift it truly is?
What if you could enjoy the spacious silence as the gift of deep rest and deep communion with the One who made you?
Silence is sacred.
Soul Nourishing Practice: Soaking Prayer
You know that feeling when the chill in the air makes the world feel crisp, but the sunlight beaming down on you makes your entire body feel warm and cozy and drenched in goodness?
That sun-soaked feeling is unlike anything else.
You could probably close your eyes and imagine a moment like that where, on a snow-filled winter day, melty spring day, or autumn arrival day, you stood outside, noticed the warmth, then closed your eyes just to bask in it. Letting it fill your body with such joy and delight.
That is how soaking prayer feels.
Soul Nourishing Practice: Praying in Colour
Praying in Colour is an activity that engages a similar flow state as we intentionally turn off our 'doing' mode, and turn on our 'listening' mode of prayer. Doodling as you pray, creating shapes and patterns, filling them in with colours, gives you something to do with your hands, body, and eyes, while you practice silent listening with God.
Soul Nourishing Practice: Prayer of Lament
Life.
Sometimes, it feels like life is happening with us and for us and it feels full of joy and freedom and love and goodness.
Other times, it feels like life is happening against or without us and it feels full of grief, sadness, being alone, feeling rejected or left behind.
The unexpected twists and turns, the best laid plans falling apart before our eyes, and learning to navigate a world that we have limited control over can lead us to a desire to cry out to God with questions, tears, and deep sighs of exasperation over the suffering we are experiencing.