Becoming a King: The Path to Restoring the Heart of a Manعينة

Becoming Deeply Rooted

Nothing more is required of us than that which we can do in union with God. – Cherie Snyder

What are you practicing? Our decades are formed by our days, and our days are forged by practices. The question is not if we are disciples (or apprentices), but rather, whose apprentice are we? Make no mistake, we have become and are becoming people who are formed and forged by daily practices. 

Take an inventory of the habits or regular activities that form the fabric of your days. Think of your relationship to technology and how and where you choose to engage. What are the most predominant and predictable habits of your life?  

Reflection Questions

1. Do you live with pauses between engagement and activity? The heart beats and it rests. Where is your rest? And your rhythm?
2. What habits do I practice on a regular basis that leave my soul with more strength and vitality?
3. Make a list of categories in your life where you lack margin. One by one, invite God to shine his light. What is within your power to move closer to health and well-being in each of these categories? And what might God want to reveal regarding the deeper issues that compelled the overload to begin with?

Closing Prayer

Jesus, I am asking that all my habits and my cultivating of practices would be brought under your care and into connection with you. I am asking you to shepherd my masculine heart deeper in daily practices that provide nourishment that is truly satisfying. Show me what needs to be taken up and what needs to be let go of. Shine your light on who can help me in specific ways in all of this. I receive your all-surpassing power and acknowledge that I cannot do this in my own strength. I receive your life, living in me, to empower me into the more. I choose to engage in these practices, to do what is in my power to access, a power that comes from you and you alone.