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Written by Soul Care | Oct 8, 2025 11:29:33 PM

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Welcome to our weekly Friday Check-in for October 10th, 2025 ✅

Hello and welcome! Thanks for joining us today as we pause to check in together every Friday. We use Soul Care’s Page, Person, Plan framework to create a weekly rhythm of reflection, connection, and intention.

Throughout October, we’ll be doing things a bit differently. Instead of moving through various Scripture readings each Friday, we invite you to linger with a single passage, 1 Corinthians 13, and the theme of our Semi-Silent Retreat, “Live Loved.”

Week by week, we’ll keep returning to these words, allowing them to soak more deeply into our hearts and remind us of our belovedness in God. This month is an invitation not to rush on, but to rest, to receive, and to truly live from love.
So let’s begin by taking a few slow, deep breaths...

Let's begin with,

Page: An Invitation to Reflection

Read 1 Corinthians 13 (NIV) three times.

“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

Spend a few minutes journaling in response to this passage:

What stands out to you most? Is there a particular word or phrase?
As you read through it a second time… ask God, “to what area of my life does that particular word or phrase connect?”
And as you read a third time, be asking God, “Is there an invitation for me?” Is there a response of some kind that God is inviting you into?

Today’s Scripture Focus: “Love is patient...” (1 Cor. 13:4). Meditate on this one phrase for a minute, repeating it slowly in your mind or out loud. In what areas of life do you struggle to receive God’s patient love for you? How might it change your perspective to know God never rushes or grows weary of you?

Next up is,

Person: An Invitation to Connection

This week, practice patience in a relationship that normally feels strained. Choose to slow down, listen, and notice the other person with gentleness.

Finally we have,

Plan: An Invitation to Intention

Create space for extended silence one day this week. Let yourself simply sit in God’s presence without pressure to “do” or “produce.” Rest in His patience with you.

Closing Prayer:

Thank You for Your unending patience with us... patience that waits, endures, and never gives up. So often we rush, demand, and grow weary, but You remain steady and kind.

As we go into this weekend and the week ahead, help us to rest in the truth that we are deeply loved just as we are. Teach us to extend the same patience we have received from You to those around us. Slow our hearts, quiet our anxieties, and open our eyes to the gifts hidden in waiting.

May we learn to live loved, anchored in Your patient love, today and always.

Amen.

Thanks for checking in today. You are loved.

Team Soul Care

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