Category: Holy Spirit

Grounded & Rooted

The mantra for my yoga class this morning: Be grounded and rooted in love.  Throughout the class, my  instructor repeated, “Take a deep breath and say, I am grounded and rooted in love.” While yoga philosophy is not based on Christianity, it does have a spiritual and meditative core. I can easily adapt these yoga essentials to my Christian faith.

During my restorative and yoga flow classes, I am mindful of God and in constant communication with him.  This is a time to release whatever is weighing me down. To focus on my breathing, quiet my mind, and strengthen my body.  Time spent in my yoga practice is spiritual.  While I practice my Pranayama (yoga breath), I fixate on God.  So to me, this morning’s mantra was: Be grounded and rooted in LOVE. The 1 John 4:8 Bible version, God is Love. I am grounded and rooted in Christ.

This perfectly timed theme impacted me, as it’s been my most recent prayerful focus during my Bible time. So, I soaked it up this morning. I am grounded and rooted in Love…Christ…God.  (D) All of the above!

While my body was engaged in the restorative yoga techniques, my mind was reflecting and absorbing the vastness of God’s love. I envisioned his Spirit flowing through me, fulfilling my most heartfelt desire: My Christian roots are strong, my faith firmly grounded in Christ, God’s love cascading through me and out to others, with the Holy Spirit as my guide. Love them like Jesus, as the Casting Crown song says. I honestly can’t think of a better way to show Jesus how much I truly love him. I imagine this would make God smile.

John 15:12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

2 Corinthians 5:20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.

It’s a Spiritual Thing

In September 2013, I began working for a small start-up in the real estate investment industry.  I discovered business skills I never knew were in me, including the fact that I could make real money-for my company and myself.

For the past five years, I’ve traveled across the country, attending one industry event after another, meeting hundreds of new people – all networking and dealmaking.  There is so much money in this industry, which also means these conferences offer perks of a job I’d never experienced. We stay in the best hotels, eat fabulous food, and the networking parties are very grand- sometimes over the top. Traveling to these “shows,” as we call them, is a whirlwind of activity and it would be easy for someone to get lost in it all, which is why I stick close to my fellow believers.

I am spiritually drawn to other Christians and can sense the Holy Spirit inside.  It makes sense when you think about it since this is where Christ dwells.  No one has to announce, “I’m a Christian.” We have this underlying ability to just know; Christ’s words and thoughts naturally become our own and help us to connect.

Paul writes in Romans about the Spirit dwelling in us, and that if it does not, then we don’t belong to Christ. I am in awe that God has designed us to have this sense of discernment.  The Spirit of Christ is so great and so vast, and I am grateful for his infinite ability to connect me with fellow believers, from coast-to-coast.

Romans 8:9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.