I hope you’re enjoying your summer, sweet ones! Summer is a time to slow our pace, enjoy God’s creation, and to hopefully give our hearts a bit more space to rest, dream, imagine, and play. For some of us, summer stays busy, but just knowing that it’s indeed summer seems to help us slow our pace a bit. Popsicles, swimming, summer sunsets, crickets singing at dusk, fireflies, bare feet, shorts and ponytails, longer days, grilling yummy food, no school! Summer is one of my favorite seasons.
I think summer is a great time to slow down and check in with our own hearts. How is your heart, really? How’s your pace of life? How’s the deep, down part of your soul, sweet one?
Summer is for building memories, playing, dreaming, and summer can also be a really sweet time to tuck our hearts in close to God and to allow Him room and space to do a replenishing work in our hearts and souls. It’s a time to set aside some things if we can and to center our focus on the One who guides our hearts. It’s a time to know His grace in a deeper way, trusting Him for the spiritual growth and stronger faith we long for. For many of us, we get some sort of break from our normal routine during the summer. Something about our schedules is different and hopefully a little less busy.
So today, I simply want to encourage us to soak in the slower pace and make some room to let God into that summer space. Dream a little about your summer with me:
- What do you need from God this summer?
- What dreams and prayer requests are you trusting Him with this summer?
- In what ways do you want to grow spiritually?
- How do you want to spend your time?
- What do you need physically, spiritually, and emotionally this summer?
- What will you be glad you did or didn’t do this summer?
- How can you make more room for God?
I’m learning that reflection with God leads to replenishment. As we bring our hearts and souls to God, giving Him our cares and needs, He gently guides us with His Word and His Spirit, ultimately replenishing us in ways that maybe we didn’t even know we needed.
Let God into your summer space. He loves to replenish, refresh, and restore you.
“I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.” Jeremiah 31:25
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