Soul Matters

Welcome Soul Matters Facilitators

Packets and other resources are listed in order of their submittal (by Mary) to this site, most recent first:

Soul Matters new subscriber orientation video
8/27/24

3/17/21, Mary
Soul Matters April 2021

• Imaginatively Replace Every Other Line
  Imagination not only improves our lives, it populates them.
• Imagine the Colors and Location of Your Happiness
  Imagination pulls the sacred into our impoverished present.
• Imagine Your Gravestone
  Imagining how we want to be remembered
• Listen to Shel Silverstein
  Imagine the world we dream of to pull our imperfect present into an improved future.
• The Imagined Story That Has Shaped Your Real One
  All of us have a book or two that shaped who we are and how we live our lives.

• Find Stillness in Gratitude
  "Filling our heads and hearts with gratitude 'softens our lives' and opens a still space free of worry and want...sinking into gratitude stills us."
• Let Lectio Divina Lead You to Stillness
  Deeply listen to a text by reading it multiple times, through a different reflective lens each time.
• Sit Still With a Loved One in View
  Our loved ones are miracles. Let’s try to be still and present enough to notice.
• Take a Pic of Your Calming Place
  Deepen your relationship with your “calming place” by capturing it with a picture.

• Complete the Sentence
  Remember what past healing required.
• Let Lectio Divina Lead You to Healing
  Deeply listen to a text by reading it multiple times, through a different reflective lens each time. Bring different discernment questions to the text, with each question inviting you to listen to the text in a new way.
• Share Your Apt Words
  Revisit the words you once held on to in order to hold yourself together and find your current “healing words” – the words you need right now to deal with today’s wounds and worry.
• Wrestle with the Call of Reparations
  Some argue racial healing requires it; others declare it unrealistic. But no matter where one stands, all of us can at least admit that the refusal to make space for the discussion drives us even farther from healing.