May Week 3: Spiritual Aging Study Guide
From Yearning to Knowing
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This Week’s Excerpt
“Homesickness can only tug at your heart if you once actually knew a place called home. Similarly, when you yearn for connection, it is your loneliness and unrest, themselves, that testify to the truth that wholeness of spirit is real and possible.
You are far more wise, loveable and fiercer than you have given yourself credit for. You are a precious spirit who has been called to honor that you have always had what it takes to have lived so fully into the present moment.
Trust yourself, trust God, to guide you to your greatest good knowing that whatever your circumstances, the healing of your heart and mind is always possible.
Embrace the depth of your yearning, understanding that you can feel this way only because you already know what merger with the Divine means, and what it is to be loved by God.”
——Excerpt “Third Week of May, Year One”: Spiritual Aging: Weekly Reflections for Embracing Life
Questions for Journaling and Discussion
1) What do you yearn for? Has the intensity or nature of your yearning evolved over the course of your life?
2) Is there any possibility that what you’re yearning for is a reclamation of something you once had—or is it something new?
3) How would the nature of your yearning be different if instead of viewing it as something missing or wrong you saw it as affirmation of the truth of your having already experienced wholeness of spirit?
4) Describe an experience or felt sense of being merged with the divine? Even if you are not experiencing this right now, can you still experience being beloved by God.
Spiritual Exercise