SoulCARE
Neat title to an article recently received in my inbox. What does that word bring to mind? To me it reminds me that it is not just my physical body that needs care (sleep, diet, exercise etc) but my soul is in need of that attention as well. How often do we find that our days are not going as we intended but in fact they are just the opposite? We label some of the reasons due to a lack of sleep, a lack of understanding the task or understanding but fraught with deadlines, co-workers who do not help but only seem to hinder by any number of reasons. Our level of impatience continues to escalate and we hear our inner voice grumbling, “but I am doing this for you God!”. Perhaps we might find the reason here: Gal 6:7 “do not become weary with well-doing”. Good advice---But, how do we change that weariness into energy? The Psalmist wrote that he began each new day with his God so that he might hear the loving words being poured out upon him as part of God’s “soulCARE”. So how did your day begin and how is it going?
Reflect on Annie Flint’s words as part of your daily “soulCARE”
Yea, “new every morning,” though we may awake,
Our hearts with old sorrow beginning to ache;
With old work unfinished when night stayed our hand
With new duties waiting, unknown and unplanned;
With old care still pressing, to fret and to vex,
With new problems rising, our minds to perplex
In ways long familiar, in paths yet untrod,
Oh, new every morning the mercies of God!
His faithfulness fails not; it meets each new day
New guidance for every new step of the way;
New grace for new trials, new trust for old fears,
New patience for bearing the wrongs of the years,
New strength for new burdens, new courage for old,
New faith for whatever the day may unfold;
As fresh for each need as the dew on the sod;
Oh, new every morning the mercies of God!
- Annie Johnson Flint
