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Friday Check-in: Profusely Rooted 11/07/2025

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Welcome to our weekly Friday Check-in for November 7th, 2025 ✅

Happy November! Let’s check in. 

How are you doing? How does your body feel right now? What do you need as we start a new month?

What do you hope November holds for you?

Month Theme: Profusely Rooted... in the Vastness of God

Similar to last month, instead of moving through various Scripture readings each Friday, we invite you to linger with a single passage (a prayer, really!) over the next several weeks, Ephesians 3:16-21, while we continue to meditate on the theme of this month’s Semi-Silent Retreat, “Profusely Rooted”:

“Our soul is like an inner stream of water, which gives strength, direction, and harmony to every other element of our life. When that stream is as it should be, we are constantly refreshed and exuberant in all we do, because our soul itself is then profusely rooted in the vastness of God and his kingdom, including nature, and all else within us is enlivened and directed by that stream.”
   - Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart

 

Dallas Willard describes being profusely rooted in the vastness of God... deeply grounded, yet utterly free. At first glance, being rooted sounds static, and vastness (or expanse or spaciousness) sounds free and flowing. But in the life of the Spirit, these two movements coexist.

Think of a tree: its roots go deep into rich soil (stability), but its branches stretch wide into open air (freedom). Its rootedness is what allows it to inhabit spaciousness. Likewise, the more deeply we are rooted in God’s presence, the more room we find, internally and externally, to breathe, create, and love.

Let's begin with,

Page: An Invitation to Reflection

 
Read Ephesians 3:16-21 (NIV) three times.
 

“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.


Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. 

 

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?
Take some time to reflect on what it means for Christ to “dwell in your heart through faith.” Where do you sense your roots are planted right now... in fear, striving, or love?
 
Next up is,
Person: An Invitation to Connection

 

The life of God is expansive... it makes room for creation, for diversity, for mystery, for you (Ps 18:19). To be rooted in the vastness of God is to live from a center that is open, generous, and unhurried.

This week, how might you make room for someone in your heart? Share something of God’s love with someone close to you, not by advice or words alone, but through presence. Where might you simply offer listening, steadiness, or grace as a reflection of the love you are rooted in?
 
 
Finally we have,
Plan: An Invitation to Intention

 

Add to your rhythm this week: a few minutes each morning to whisper, “Root me again in Your love, O God.” Consider pausing whenever you feel rushed or anxious to recenter in that love.
 
End this time of prayer and reflection by imagining your soul as a tree by living waters, drawing nourishment from God’s steady presence.
 
Inhale: Root me in Your love.
Exhale: Let me live from Your peace.
 
Amen! Thanks for checking in today. 
 


-Team Soul Care

 

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