It’s time to acknowledge our need to be reconciled to ourselves.

Living in England right now, I’m living in a different culture than in America.

What’s your relationship with power?

Would you describe yourself as someone who needs forgiveness? 

Do you think you need God?

What if we grabbed God, embraced Him and His ways, rather than our impulse to grab power?

Guest Writer: my husband, Justin Bradbury

Compassion will move us from a place of personal safety and convenience, to a place of risk and potential harm for the sake of others.

In your orbit, what does it to look like when you treat a man or woman with compassion?

Are you more attracted to someone who is compassionate?  Who dignifies human beings?  Values them?

Or are you more drawn to someone who is cruel? Who degrades vulnerable people by making a spectacle of them?

Why should we care about what shapes our thinking and relating?

What or who shapes the way you relate to the men and women around you?

Why don’t men and women see things the same way?

Right now, we are all in a critical relational place.  One ripe for change.

When we bless our bodies, we acknowledge we are relational human beings.

To live.  To experience.  To do things, like heal.

As strange as this may sound, could you write your physical body a letter?

It might help you see it with God’s eyes.

Is living alive simply an individual quest?

Or does it include others?

Can you imagine receiving your physical body as a gift from God?

We get to make a choice.

Living alive starts in our physical bodies.

Would you say you live alive in yours?

As we start this year, I’m wondering: What does it mean to live alive? 

How do you do it?

But what if accessing and expressing compassion is not something that comes naturally to you?

Does it matter?

Guest Writer: my husband, Justin Bradbury

If we’re honest, a lot of us are living life on the defensive. Fearful, we attack and diminish others, if not out loud, then under our breath.

Would you rather hang out with someone who acts compassionately towards you, who genuinely desires to see you grow and flourish?

Or someone who is out for themselves, who selfishly schemes and postures to get ahead?