Thrive: Transforming Relationship

Anxious. Angry. Overwhelmed. Impatient.
These are just some of the words that the women at Thrive named as symptoms of an unwell soul.




The pen flew across the paper as women shared what a healthy soul looks like.

Marmi Houff began a three week series on the Transforming Relationship of life--our relationship with God.

The topic of soul cultivation was anchored by this quote:

Under the pressure of events, our lives become hard packed like soil that has not been tilled for many years. One experience is added to another so rapidly that we have neither time nor opportunity to consider their implications, nor the possibilities they open. We do not have time to savor their pleasantness, to feel their pain deeply, nor to establish an inner relationship to them. They pile up and are pressed tightly together inside of us, leaving no room in between for the fresh air of consciousness to enter, nor for something new to grow.

As we work in our Journal, however, we gradually break into this hardness. The soil of our lives is loosened and softened. The solid clumps of past experience are broken up so that air and sunlight can enter. New awarenesses come in and have a fertilizing effect. Soon the soil becomes soft enough for new shoots to grow in.

--Ira Porgoff

Through teaching, journaling and discussion time, Marmi will continue in this series next week with the topic of soul transformation. This week, think about the condition of your soul (well or unwell?) Cooperate with his leading this week. Where is he providing opportunities for you to cultivate soul health? And bring your journals and join us at Thrive this Thursday at 10!