mining the soul conference reflections. soul-making
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Mining the Soul
Conference Reflections
SOUL-MAKING
‘School helped me to
develop a sense of
myself as a person’
‘Connecting with the
spiritual side of myself
has helped me develop
a sense of self’
‘The choice between peace and conflict helps you to work out who you are’
Actions that create soul in yourself
Actions that create soul in others
‘Respect is fre
e to give but
invaluable to receive…a kind
word produces a chemical
cascade in the body’
Akram Azimi‘Education of people
is the solution to the
problems of our w
orld’
‘We have a responsibility
– especially if you are a Christian –
to love your neighbour sacrificially.’
Bruce Robinson
The out-flowing of Soul to others
‘The way to
live a fu
lfilled
life is
to seek a ric
h
Caramello lif
e rather
than a hollow lif
e’ Bruce
Robinson
‘In the Philippines, the
moment she smelt, felt
and heard for the first
time she realised that her
safe, privileged world
would never be the same
again’ Reach Out
‘What gift is this experience giving you?’Indigenous mentoring programme
‘If I can make a small
difference everyday of my
life, then I can die today
knowing my life has
purpose’ Reach Out
…and discover that their own souls are enriched
Matthew 16:25 For those who want to save their life (psuche) will lose it, and those who lose their life (psuche) for my sake will find it.
The importance of maintaining your soul
‘I mined my soul to show kindness and discovered that I had given away more than I had’Akram Azimi
THE INTEGRATION OF EXISTENCE
Sport
Art
Music
Faith
Help for o
thers
Education
True Spirituality involves balance and the integration of Body, Mind and Spirit
Justin Langer
The four points for Sporting success:• Technical• Physical• Mental• Spiritual
THE COMMUNITY DIMENSION OF THE SOUL
Actions that create soul
‘When you are well loved by your parents, it is easy to believe in the God of love…what created my soul were the communities that produced me’Jarrod McKenna
Experiences that diminish soul
• Racism as an experience that works against the soul
• Journalism as the potential to diminish the soul
Spirituality and Religion
• The problems of the privatising of the realm of the ‘Spirit’
• The personal and the corporate dimensions of faith and spirituality (1 Corinthians 12)
• The challenge of a corporate expression of faith in Schools
JESUS AND THE SPIRIT
The gift we have to offer
‘Our task is to hand back Jesus to the world in all his captivating beauty and brilliance’Jarrod McKenna
What is missing?
‘I was living the dream but there was something missing…God gives me the strength to achieve anything’Justin Langer
The realm of the Spirit
A Spiritual experience is when God reaches down and touches you…without God our lives just don’t make sense