We’re headed into the holiday season, a season of feasts but also of family stress. We’re all aware that joy rarely stands alone. We can be all over the  emotional map even on Christmas morning. The older I get, the more I realize we are complex, a daily mixture of pain and joy. The question is, can we invite Jesus to walk with us in our complexities. Can we sift through the fog of our internal narratives and find Him in the nativity? There is often so much joy to be found but we can be run over by stress, by to do lists, and triggers, and we miss it all. But here’s the question: Can we stay awake to the Presence of Jesus?

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Ep 72 Summer reads Ch 1 of The Emmanuel Promise

This episode is DAY 1 of a private 7-Day podcast devotional called “Welcome Home,” a gift for anyone who pre-orders The Emmanuel Promise.  Pre-order from Baker Publishing for $11.39 and free shipping here!  Pre-order from Amazon here After pre-ordering, get your gifts and join the launch team here. The Emmanuel Promise is an invitation to set down shame and recognize that your attachment story, your earliest relationship with your caregiver, may be what’s obstructing your relationship with God. Your caregivers were human. Limited. Living with their own broken and imperfect story. God’s love is lavish. He’s . Compassionate. Perfect. But, since our neural pathways for relationships were created in those first three years, our brains have to be rewired to Perfect Love.  

Welcome Home: The Attachment Invitation of the Prodigal Son

The neural pathways for relationship are developed in the first three years of a person's life. This affects even our relationship with God and is at the heart of attachment theory. Therapist Maggie Rhine, the head of the Healing Care Center, tells the story of her struggle to gain a secure attachment after having multiple surgeries as an infant.  "Looking at our attachment stories is not dishonoring to our parents. So many of them did the best they could. It is not blameworthy, or shame-worthy, but it is grief-worthy and we've got to name it and bring it into the presence of God so we can heal." Maggie Rhine Order Summer's book and learn more about how your attachment story has affected your relationship with God here: https://bakerbookhouse.com/products/5... or here: https://a.co/d/4g3xdRX   Find out more about the Healing Care Center where Maggie and other experts work, a place where you can do intensive work on your attachment story, here: https://www.thehealingcarecenter.org/

Our Attachment Wounds and God's Healing: A Conversation with Maggie Rhine

 Attachment theory and the many obstacles to a life immersed in the Trinity's Love Honest conversation about detaching to attach in our marriages Understanding our attachment story and style in order to heal and live out of knowing you are God's beloved. The simple, but profound spiritual practices which have been a gift for Terry Experience Terry Wardle lead you into Jesus' Presence through Safe Place    Pre-order The Emmanuel Promise: Discovering the Security of a Life Held by God  with Baker for 11.49! HERE on Amazon  HERE or wherever you get your books.   Check out Healing Care Ministries amazing offerings HERE   Terry Wardle has written a treasure trove of incredible books including  Identity Matters and one of my favorites,  Every Breath We Take, a book every Presence Project Listener will LOVE.   He also has a weekly podcast called Slingstones: Listen here.

Journey to Attachment with God, an honest conversation with Terry Wardle

The insecure anxious attached hope to get an "A" in Lent to try to be more worthy for God. They're afraid they have to clean themselves up before God wants to be in their presence. The insecure avoidant attached like to keep things more intellectual, reading about someone else's Lent. If they have sin in their lives, they think they have to go at it alone. The truth is that the Holy Spirit wants to be the One in charge of inviting us to new areas of increased freedom. He wants us to come to Him to become unbound. We were never meant to do this alone.  ............................................... PRE-ORDER The Emmanuel Promise: Discover the Security of a Life Held by God From Baker Publishing for $11.39 HERE  From Amazon HERE Receive a mini-retreat right to your inbox based on podcast episodes by signing up HERE. I call it the Slow Weekend Starter Kit. 

Drawing Near to God in the Midst of Holiday Stress

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