They asked me what I was doing this weekend. I said I was doing a spiritual roots exercise. What book was it from, they responded. It wasn’t, I made it up.
I went north to visit people from my past, from the church where I got saved. That church has been a point to navigate from. I don’t always agree with them, but it helps measure how far I have travelled.
So what happens on a spiritual roots exercise? Time travel.
Visit the old church. Talk to people. Listen. Ask questions. Note their relationships and family life.
Observe how they’ve changed, where God’s leading them, where they find the pilgrimage difficult. Do the same for yourself. See where the commonalities are. Discern the Spirit.
Much will be disturbing. You may not like everything you hear. Don’t judge.Though beginning from the same place, you have each walked different paths. Resist the temptation to nostalgia, a glory days image of what you think used to be.
You will come back with fresh problems, alarming doubts, nagging questions. Your stability will have been undermined. But what can be shaken should be shaken. What remains is the unshakable in God’s process of testing.
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ReplyDeleteI have lived in the same community all my life, during runs to the local supermarket i often bump into people from my past. People who remind me of the shattered self i once was, the exiled soul striving only to get to tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI often analyse my journey through the eyes of confusion the said people from my past stare @me from. I wonder...Why God called me? Why am I in this place of peace? why He gave me the motivation to move forward? How is it that i am called to be in this position of privilege? why I have been honoured with a personal friendship with Christ.
However I rarely become nostalgic, quite the opposite in fact. The Spiritual roots exercise asks more questions than it answers for me.
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