Thirteen Partnership Newsletter (Special Edition)- March 2014

Sharing of my spiritual journey in Selah Spiritual Direction program

GENERAL OVERVIEW

What words describe the current feel of your life with God? 

            Live by the Spirit, aware, faith rather than fear

SCRIPTURE

Have any verses or passages or images from the Scriptures been particularly inviting or powerful or engaging for you?  If so, which ones, and what’s going on between you and God in these encounters?

“So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.” (Gal. 5:16)

“…everything that does not come from faith is sin” (Rom. 14:23b)

            On March 13, while walking and talking to Dan on the road to Academic Center I felt the presence of the Spirit in the sudden powerful wind. I related that to the two disciples who encountered Jesus on the Road to Emmaus. The Holy Spirit was presence when I shared with my companion and my spiritual director that God invited me to “live by the Spirit” and it is encouraging because I know that it is from God and I have godly accountable partners along the journey in the same direction.

PRAYER

In prayer, how have you been aware of God – His presence, His character, His ways?  How would you describe your experience of communion with Him?

            I have been aware that God is indeed in me and spoke to me through the Scripture and my daily life. He is patient with me when I am behind with school works. He is gentle and has given me many good companions to walk with me. When Christ died I was in his heart, and now he lives in my heart, walks with me and watch over me in all that I do. 

BIG-PICTURE AWARENESS

Which of the Selah rhythms help describe this season of your life with God?

            Renewing- Spring

Within these rhythms what kind of shaping might God be doing in you?

            Awakening in the Spirit, engagement, attentiveness, noticing, reflecting, aesthetic, and kataphatic

Do you find yourself resisting this?  What feels like joy and life in this?

            No. Renewing in the Spirit gives me faith to overcome my physical weaknesses and to welcome the more fruitful season as said in John 15:5, “whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit.”

SPIRITUAL PRACTICES

Are you noticing any changes in what spiritual practices are helpful or not helpful to you in this rhythm of God’s work in you?

            I will begin to have an accountable relationship with Dan and meanwhile I will resume my journaling every night to reflect the presence of God in my life and how I fulfill my daily rule of life schedule.