09/10/2023
I was blessed to lead worship this past weekend at a Ladies Event for PromiseLand San Marcos. I’d like to just say it was such a great rejuvenating time of refreshing focusing on the Spirit and receiving a Godly word. I was honored to be called a ”new friend” by many of the ladies.
I was spring-boarding in my mind as I reflected on the message of needing, desperately needing, spiritual community.
The night before I had gone out to play evening pickleball with one of my greatest friends. We tarried a bit so it wouldn’t be quite like 106 degrees out. (ACTUALLY it ended up not being nearly so hot bc the court fell in the setting sun shade, so even though it was logging as 104 -ish, the weather was tolerable.) Anyways, we were playing arduously and the sun set to darkness but we continued to play to finish our game. (Yes in the dark..) It was incredibly interesting playing in the dark, you had to rely mostly on muscle memory to hit the ball over the net.
Muscle memory is an amazing thing. I rely a lot on it in pickeball to call up some sick shots from my tennis days. (Ask any of my court friends how many times I have pegged them hahaha. i say sorry A LOT.)
I think about muscle memory and how this applies to our walk with God. How do you make spiritual muscle memory? It’s not so you can be spiritually lazy like I might be on the pickeball court for generating winners. Spiritual muscle memory comes from our spending time in the presence of God, soaking, cultivating, listening, worshipping Him. When we have done this, when the lights go out in our life we are able to continue forward.
The lights go out all the time in my life for so many reason. I’d love to just spend all my time listing my struggles lol (for that maybe go follow me on Spotify 😂🎶), but maybe if you sit for a minute you can readily agree that you KNOW what lights out in your life looks like because you’re experiencing or have experiences struggles and trials too.
This bring me to the retreat. The speaker spoke about cultivating spiritual community. I readily related to the need to add that to my muscle memory spiritual response. I tend to suffer inside sort of only. I prefer not to share my suffering with others. (Except my Mom Lynda and my MIL Judy they pray for me.)
There’s this thing about muscle memory though. It’s not a box checked. It doesn’t appear magically. It doesn’t come from just me nodding my head at a church service.
It comes from the doing.
What spiritual muscle memory do you need help with today? I’d love to hear about it and connect back and forth. That would help me with mine.
Love,
Adrienne 💜
