Pioneering Old Paths
You need somewhere to ponder, wonder, wrestle.
You're curious - perplexed - even listless - about the paradoxes of life in Christ: the pains, promises, people, and practices.
You're in the right place.
Join Amy Leigh Bamberg, a spiritual director who deeply values the sacred work of holy listening with individuals, couples, and groups in exploration of the intricate ways God meets each person. Tune in for in-depth discussions with insightful guests and find companionship for your spiritual transformation journey.
Pioneering Old Paths
The Interior Life: A Meditative Reflection
Is it psycho-babble? Selfishness? Escapism? Or is the interior journey absolutely essential for a Christ-formed life?
Answer: the latter.
Make no mistake: in a society of weaponized individuality and normalized pathological narcissism, the dangers of self-absorption are valid.
And yet, the journey inward is absolutely essential for outward expression of the faith-filled, sacrificial love we are commanded to live.
This inward journey is an arduous pilgrimage of continual, gradual work as we participate with God who is peeling back each layer of our souls ... exposing deeper wounds, pains, fears, sin patterns, desires, curiosities to his LoveLight ... unfurling us from the fetal position of self-protection ... purging false gods, crucifying figments, resurrecting hope ... until our truest self finds complete rest in him. And we come alive as we find the life within.
Though we take innumerable exterior journeys throughout our lives, encountering new cultures and swaths of creation, the most extraordinary pilgrimage of our lives is an interior one. And we don't have to leave home to take the first step; we simply need the willingness to know and be known...to love and be loved.
Today we meditate on the biblical, theological, and personal basis for the interior life, exploring scripture and our own souls as true pilgrims. May each of us come alive as we find the life within.
Key Scriptures for Meditation:
Psalm 27.4 | Hebrews 3.6 | John 1.14, 18 | John 14.2-4, 23 | 1 Corinthians 6.19
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