The Scripture ~ God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We’re Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. We’re speaking for Christ now: Become friends with God; God is already a friend with you.
2nd Corinthians 5:17-20 The Message Translation.
The Spiritual Focus ~ The art of longing and the art of belonging must be experienced in life….Anonymous quote
The Devotion ~ In this journey called life we are all longing to belong. We don’t long to belong to just anything, we long to belong to Love with a capital L. We take detours away from this Love sometimes, possibly many times, in an attempt to figure things out, yet we are always welcome to come home to Love. Thanks be to God that God is faithful to God’s promise to be with us always, no matter what, guiding us by the Holy Spirit home. God fulfilled the promise of belonging in Jesus and when we live the way of Jesus, peace, harmony, love and care for neighbor as self, we capture the essence of what it means to long, belong and live…
The way of Jesus is an open door, Jesus decided for us on the cross, we are always welcome home and to bring others home with us.
In yoga we have a Sanskrit word for community called sangha. It is a word that says we belonging to each other for support. Tribe is another word for community but carries the weight of survival in its meaning whereas sangha is more about community support and awakening. We live out our faith through our yoga practice when we embrace the idea that what we do on the mat is reflected in our actions off the mat in community. In our faith practices we understand that we belong to God and each other for the sake of the world… the world that God loved so much that he sent Jesus. We are blessed to live as agents of God’s grace and love through our faith and yoga practice.
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