06/02/2023
“All nature conceals it’s great secrets and cannot reveal its hidden wisdom and profound beauty if we do not listen carefully and patiently…” I absolutely ADORE John Henry Nouwen! He writes “the visible world is the veil of the world invisible”. Perhaps we can see the nature all around us as a visible veil through which an invisible world is revealed.
How differently would we live if we were constantly aware of this veil and sensed in our whole being how nature is ever ready for us to hear and see the great story of the Creator’s love, to which it points.…
• The plants and animals with whom we live teach us about birth and growth and maturation and death and about the need for gentle care and especially about the importance of patience and hope. It is sad that our days are less connected with nature and we to longer allow nature to minister to us. We so easily limit ministry to work for people by people. But we do an immense service to our world if we would let nature heal, counsel and teach again. •
Point of the post? Spend more time with trees, let nature heal counsel and teach you again and again of the enduring, calming constancy of God. If your soul is soothed when in nature; perhaps it’s simply remembering what we know and believe on a Sunday but forget when caught up in our Monday. Here is your little Monday reminder friend 🤗✨
17/05/2022
3 of 6 | What does “imago dei” mean?
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What is it, what does it mean? How do I say it?
(Why *this* name for a business, Ennette 🤦🏾♀️ no one will ever know how to say it!!)
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Wellllll friends, it’s latin 🤓 and the literal translation is: God’s image. In the Christian faith it encapsulates the principle that we are all made in the image of God. We are all fearfully and wonderfully made created to be image bearers of Him who first made us.
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We are not the source we are not the answer. Yoga is not the answer either. To know who we are or how to live well and whole, we need to go back to the Creator; to go back to the meaning for which we were made. Yoga is one of many tools, (and obviously my personal favourite 😉) that we can use to find the time to embrace stillness and find rest. To move our bodies with integrity and intentionality. To cultivate breathing space in our souls, a space in which we are so present we encounter the presence of God: moving meditation if you will.
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That same Sunday Worship feeling but on a Wednesday on your yoga mat.
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The heart behind IMAGO DEI Wellbeing & Yoga is that because God has made you, your life has intrinsic value, not simply because of who you are as an individual, but because of who He is your life has purpose and meaning. Your life is sacred because He has stamped His identity upon yours, and every time we step onto our mats it is an opportunity to soak our souls in these truths, to live into our belovedness. What I love about this concept is that even if you were to just take the first letters of the words, “imago dei” they spell: I.D. its intrinsically all about identity. Hopefully as you practice your time on the mat will be a holy reminder of who are and more importantly whose you are, a space where we seek to recognise the dignity and divinity in us in order to recognise and restore that very same dignity and divinity in others 🤍
17/05/2022