Heart Soul Mind Yoga Podcast Heart Soul Mind Yoga

Upon arriving at the airport in Phoenix to fly back home to Denver I was asked if I was interested in lightening my load at the curbside check in. It was well worth the extra money to unload my baggage right there rather than lug it half a block inside to the check in counter. My body was tired & I had dropped the prideful and stubborn nature I had at the beginning of the trip. I was all about unloading my bags full of useless items that I had never even unpacked, much less used, as fast as I could. I wasn’t about to carry them unnecessarily for even one more step. This is the invitation from Jesus this morning. He’s the skycap at the curb, offering to lighten your load right here, right now. Thanks to the cross, He’s already done the work of overcoming shame, guilt, anger, fear, regret, hurts that have morphed into bitterness and anger…you just have to be willing to accept His offer.

Each plant is created to flourish in a specific type of soil. And a flower will bloom if it’s root system is planted into it’s personal perfectly formulated conditions. We too were created to flourish in a perfectly specific type of soil. And let me tell you today...that perfect soil has nothing to do with your house, or your neighborhood, or your job, or your relationship status. The perfect soil you were created to be planted in is Divine Love. When you are rooted in His love you will naturally and effortlessly, begin to bloom right where you are planted.

I know that in less than a breath the floor will literally drop out from under me and I will fall. And so, quickly, I realize that I can’t depend on the floor. I realize that the only constant in that tube that will remain when I fall is the back of the slide. And so, you guys, I lean back into that slide so hard, willing myself to become one with the slide. I try to convince my brain that the thing that’s supporting me at this moment isn’t the floor which is about to literally disappear but what’s supporting me is that which I’m leaning into. I press every inch of myself into the back wall of my clear coffin and the floor drops out from under me and I fall.

I almost let this list of disqualifications override the call on my life and when I talk to other men & women I learn that I’m not the only one who’s calling is threatened by shame. This is why some of my favorite stories in scripture are those that show God swooping in on the broken life of a disqualified person and doing mighty works in and through his or her life.

One of these broken & disqualified people is an unnamed Samaritan woman who we know best as “The Woman at the Well”. Scripture never tells us her name, but she had a reputation & it’s likely that everyone in her village knew who she was.

We still carry the image of God. We might be born into a sinful world and in need of repair but we still carry the image of God.

The Pieta was damaged, but despite the damage, it is still The Pieta. Despite the damage to the sculpture the woman still bore the original image it was created to represent.

Allow that to be your intention this morning, believing and embracing that YOU are made in the image of God.

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I teach Holy Yoga in the Denver, Colorado suburbs.

You can find me across social media at Heart Soul Mind Yoga.

My website is www.heartsoulmindyoga.com

That Easter Sunday, in 1991, to a 9 year old girl in San Diego, darkness represented work...weariness, and the light represented rest and worship.

For all of humanity, in all of the world, that FIRST Easter Sunday...Resurrection Sunday, sunrise represented the end of work... weariness and the beginning of rest and worship.

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