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Written by Soul Care | Oct 16, 2025 3:00:00 PM

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Welcome to our weekly Friday Check-in for October 17th, 2025 ✅

How was your week? Did you “live loved”? How so?

Throughout October, we’re 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.”

We’re returning to these words, allowing them to soak more deeply into our hearts and remind us of our belovedness in God. Don’t rush, but instead enter into this time to rest and receive...

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 kind...” (1 Cor. 13:4) Meditate on this one phrase for a minute, repeating it slowly in your mind or out loud. When you consider God’s kindness toward you, what memories or moments come to mind? How might remembering these things shape how you see yourself today?

Next up is,

Person: An Invitation to Connection

Choose one intentional act of kindness toward someone this week, especially someone you may overlook. Do it not to earn approval, but as an overflow from being loved.

Finally we have,

Plan: An Invitation to Intention

Now, write down 3 tangible ways you’ve experienced God’s kindness recently. Spend as much time in thanksgiving and prayer as you need. Revisit this list during the week as a reminder of His heart toward you.

Closing Prayer:

Gracious God,

Thank You for Your kindness that meets us in every season of life. Your love is gentle, not harsh; it restores rather than condemns. Help us to see ourselves through the lens of that kindness and to remember that we are cherished, not because of what we do, but because of who You are.

As we move through this week, let Your kindness shape our words, our actions, and our posture toward others. Make our hearts soft where they’ve grown guarded, and generous where they’ve grown cautious.

Teach us to live loved, and to let kindness be the natural overflow of Your love at work within us. Amen.

Amen! Thanks for checking in today. You are loved.

-Team Soul Care

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