Behold, all souls are mine.

 

I saw the above quote on Facebook on The Soul Journey with Sarah Moussa, "Every soul is whole, no matter how wounded the mind is." When I searched who to attribute this to, I got several results and all led me to Bible verse. The ai from Google is copied below. I think it is a beautiful description.

The primary Bible verse expressing the idea of wholeness in body, soul, and spirit is 1 Thessalonians 5:23 (NKJV): "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." This verse highlights God's desire for the entire person to be holy and preserved. 

Key Aspects of Biblical Wholeness:

Three-Part Being: The Bible indicates humans are composed of spirit, soul, and body, with God's goal being the sanctification of all three parts.

Ownership: Ezekiel 18:4 states, "Behold, all souls are mine," implying that every soul belongs to God.

Holiness and Preservation: The focus is on being made "completely" or "entirely" holy through God, keeping the person blameless.

Integration: 1 Thessalonians 5:23 suggests a holistic view where the spirit (higher nature/relation to God), soul (emotions/mind), and body (physical) are all significant to God. 

Other related verses regarding soul and being include Ezekiel 18:20 (soul and responsibility) and Matthew 22:37 (loving God with all heart, soul, and mind). 

Art from Facebook on The Soul Journey with Sarah Moussa

Stanley Brothers, The Rank Strange

 

Anger is important.

 

"I sat with my anger long enough, until she told me her real name was grief.

I'm not a whole person, and I don't think I will ever be. Parts of me died in the house I grew up in, and I visit them in dreams. When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives. Your anger is the part of you that knows your mistreatment and abuse are unacceptable.

Your anger knows you deserve to be treated well. Anger is important, it needs to be expressed, acted out, and vocalized. When it doesn't, it begins to manifest into rage."

C.S. Lewis

surrounded by treasure...

 

Source: JOURNALLING with Donna Ashworth on Facebook

Walking Tall

 

Walking Tall

Yesterday’s steps you can’t retrace, by slowing down or quickening pace,
changing course, or turning back – You still will be on the same old
track. The only change worthwhile you’ll find, will be a change of heart
and mind – leading and directing you  - on towards that lovely view.

Keep to the rules and bear your load, along the rough and rutted road,
on that wayside seat awhile -  gathering strength for the second mile.
Keeping an eye on that distant height, that draws you on by day and night
- walking tall and walking straight – the better world to recreate.

Patience Strong

Patience Strong was a prolific English writer best known for her inspirational poems and prose. She published under the pen name Patience Strong, choosing anonymity to allow readers to focus on the message of her writing rather than the author's personal life.

ai art made by me in chatgpt

When we are young, we want to look older.

 

When we are young, we want to look older.

And when we are old, we want to look younger.

And there is a window in the middle of it all when we’re supposed to look as we wish.

But we waste that time wishing

we were taller or thinner or curvier,

our hair was longer or shinier, curlier,

parts of our body were firmer and perkier

and we’d started to use anti-wrinkle cream earlier.

And by the time we realise we were perfect just as we were,

the window has closed. It is too late.

Too late to realise that all those things never really mattered in the first place.

But it’s never too late to start letting go.

To stop wanting, stop wishing.

It’s never too late to accept yourself.

To look in the mirror and realise that all along, you never needed to look older or younger or anything else.

You just needed to look like you.

*****

Becky Hemsley 2023

Artwork by Lisa Aisato

Source: Bring Side on Facebook

Everyone is a house

 

Everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual .

Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person..

Rumer Godden

Artist Credit: Miriam Bouwens

Source: Bring Side on Facebook

I put my thoughts into chatgpt and asked for help writing. My thoughts, chatgpt's beautiful rewrite:

Everyone is a house with four rooms— physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. I have two I never enter. I tell myself they are the physical and the spiritual— the rooms that ask me to be present, to believe, to live in my body. Instead, I wander the mental room, walls lined with restless thoughts, lights that never turn off. I sit in the emotional room, where the air shifts quickly— sunlight one moment, storm the next. The other doors stay closed, dust gathering at their frames. My house is whole, but I live in only half of it.

by debcd with the help of chatgpt :)