Week 3: Emotionally healthy spirituality involves embracing God’s choice to birth us into a particular family, in a particular place, at a particular moment in history.
That choice to embrace our past grants us certain opportunities and gifts. It also hands us a certain amount of ‘emotional baggage’ for our journey through life. For some of us this load is minimal; for others, it is a heavy burden to carry.
True spirituality frees us to live joyfully in the present. Living joyfully, however, requires going back in order to go forward. This process takes us to the very heart of spirituality and discipleship in the family of God- breaking free from the destructive sinful patterns of our past in order to live the life of love today that God intends.
Biblical Text: Genesis 50:14-26
