What moves your soul?

What moves your soul? What touches you deeply enough to make an impact that lasts for a while? What are the situations, stimuli, environments, people, and activities that restore your heart’s passion? Let’s consider a list of items that move people, some may be on your list. We’ll then consider what to do with your list.

·        Music (What genre of music moves your heart?)

·        Sports camps (I’ll be leading the fifth FCA camp of June this next week.)

·        The outdoors (Hiking, camping, fishing, hunting, boating, etc…)

·        Participating in sport (Football, rugby, golf, tennis, running, swimming, etc…)

·        Being in sports environments (A ballpark, a stadium, a practice facility, a gym, a pool, a rugby pitch, a cricket ground…)

·        Literature (Books, periodicals, blogs, etc…)

·        Sleep (Afternoon naps, long nights of deep sleep, power naps in the office…)

·        Conversation with friends, colleagues, or mentors.

·        Groups of people (church groups, teams, youth groups, etc…)

·        Solitude (Your favorite place for time alone.)

·        Travel (To places that restore your soul.)

·        Crowds (The energy from big crowds excite some people.)

·        Something else…

What is on your list? Look it over closely and then make it a priority to invest time in the items on your list. Our work of serving people in sport is often stressful and overly busy. We often find our schedules squeezed tightly by many important and urgent activities. We super-committed servants are occasionally on the edge of burnout and frustration leaving our spouses and children with the leftovers of our energy and emotional investments. We must do the things that restore our souls and help us to be at our best, for everyone we love and serve. Set aside the time, engage in this soul restoring stuff, and lean into it wholeheartedly.

One whose soul is restored will find greater energy, more creativity, more empathy for others, and a more relaxed attitude toward everything he encounters. Please feel free to share the items on your list with me. I’d love to hear about all those things and people that restore your soul to its most transformational state. Thanks.