๐ ๐ฝ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ผ๐ธ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐ท๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐ญ๐ช๐.
Holy yoga. Have you been?!? I admit, I was hesitant to go. Yoga in itself can be awkward - but to add holiness into it - what would that even look like? ๐๐ผโโ๏ธ My church offers it, and my body has been nagging me to do something a little extra to keep it moving. So, holy yoga it was.
I admit, I sent Marco Polos to my go-to girls and crossed my fingers that somebody else would come. Nope. I hoped that Carol {the holy yoga queen} would miss my name on the sign up, but she sent the reminder via text AND email... โcanโt wait for you to be there!โ Time to find those clean yoga pants.
I covered myself in Dove body spray because, if there was a holy body spray, it would certainly be named Dove. And I put on this shirt โฌ๏ธ. Totally extra holy. ย Oh - and a must have - something to cover the fanny. I mean, are you allowed to bare it all in holy yoga?!? Out the door, with my mat, water, and skepticism in tote. It was time to holy-yoga-it!
We started by sharing what weโve felt the Lord doing in our lives lately. No holding back. Girls spoke about fresh starts, answered prayers, the Lordโs mercy... there was something about sitting in spandex, with everybody else in their spandex, that removes barriers. Okay seriously, our leader invited the Holy Spirit to bring comfort, peace, and truth to our time together, and He came!
Carol then proceeded to kick our yoga butts {while playing amazing worship music} and awoke our souls {through reading scripture over us} as we held painful positions and willed our bodies to โrelax.โ She spoke truth and used normal yoga positions to expand on our understanding of Godโs removal of sin, redemption, and gentle stretching of our wills in order to make us stronger and more ready for His calling. It was beautiful.
I couldnโt stop the tears at one point, not from an overly-prolonged hold, but from feeling Jesusโ presence as we worshipped in mind and body. โWhyโs the new girl crying?โ No worries, Jesus was in my practice for the first time, and Iโll be back! So glad I came!
๐๐ฎ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ต๐ต ๐ช๐ท๐ญ ๐ด๐ท๐ธ๐ ๐๐ฎ ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐๐ธ๐ญ.
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DAILY TRUTH:
โSing a new song to the Lord; song his praise from the ends of the earth.โ ย Psalm 42:10
โYet I will celebrate in the Lord; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.โ ย Habakkuk 3:18
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