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Friday Check-in: Rooted in Love, Growing in Fullness 11/21/2025

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Nov 20, 2025
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Happy Friday! Here is your invitation to pause, reduce distractions, and bring awareness to God’s loving presence.

What has been “filling your cup” lately? What are you grateful for?
What has been draining? What are you least grateful for?

Bring your whole self to the Lord - gratitude, lament, and all! - as you enter into this time of reflection.

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

“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

 

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?
"…that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
What does “fullness” look like for you right now... emotionally, spiritually, relationally? Where might God be filling what feels empty?
 
Next up is,
Person: An Invitation to Connection

 

Let fullness overflow: bless someone this week by writing a note, preparing a meal, offering encouragement... or pause now to think of another creative idea to bless others in your life. How might your abundance become nourishment for another’s soul?
 
 
Finally we have,
Plan: An Invitation to Intention

 

At the end of each day this week, note one way you received God’s goodness and one way you shared it. Let gratitude root you deeper in divine fullness.
 
And a breath prayer to take with you:
 
Inhale: Fill me with Your fullness.
Exhale: Let me pour out Your love.
 
Amen! Thanks for checking in today. 
 


-Team Soul Care

 

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