Where is Your Safe Place?
**From our friends at My Life is Sacred:
"We all need a safe place where we can explore what lies beyond our brokenness and limitations. Even if that place is available for only moments at a time. If it's truly a safe place, it's sacred because it also points us to the safe people who love us well. These are the people who remind us that dignity is ours for the taking, who calls us back to our true selves. They're the people who call us out and up, who can catch us when we have nothing left and lift us when we're ready to be strong again." Ashlee Eiland
We have all had pockets of unexpected time in the last few months to choose or not choose to notice and explore that which, as Ashlee so eloquently writes, lies beyond our brokenness and limitations. Some have chosen to ignore these opportunities, others have filled them with things that are less vulnerable, others have taken the challenge and tip-toed or jumped fully into these deep waters of the soul. Whatever, you or I have chosen to do, it is still true, that one needs safe places and people to embark on this exploration, this soul examen.
What places in your life do you find safety, room, time, and rest for your soul?
Who are the safe people in your life that create a hospitable environment of unconditional love, listening, and patience for you?
Can you name the few in your world who are trustworthy enough to hold your story with both your ragged brokenness, many limitations AND your beauty, your strength?
These safe places and people may be found in your circle of family and friends. They also may be found in the pages of books, the words of certain bloggers, leaders, teachers, groups, counselors, mentors, or spiritual directors. What are these safe spaces for you where you are encouraged to live into your true self; where you are inspired to live fully into your God-given uniqueness with dignity and courage?
Have you been able to be that safe place for someone else?
Maybe you have become super aware of the precious gift of safe spaces and safe people during this season of disruption. Or, maybe you have discovered a deep longing to find these places and foster these types of relationships.