Morgan

“I’ve been gifted with a life that in whatever state it may continue is full of God’s love. I am never alone. I’ve found what I was made for, to gaze into the God of beauty and to find Him gazing back at me with His eyes of knowing love. To receive this life as sacred.”
― Strahan Coleman, Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God

“When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief or bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is the friend who cares. 46”
― Strahan Coleman, Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God

“In his book Anatomy of the Soul, psychologist Curt Thompson referenced work done by Daniel Siegel about compassionate listening: An important part of how people change—not just their experiences, but also their brains—is through the process of telling their stories to an empathetic listener. When a person tells her story and is truly heard and understood, both she and the listener undergo actual changes in their brain circuitry. They feel a greater sense of emotional and relational connection, decreased anxiety, and greater awareness of and compassion for others’ suffering.”
― Strahan Coleman, Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God

“So often the spiritual blankness we feel when we think about God is due to our blankness in general because we spend so little time with ourselves apart from the noise of life.”
― Strahan Coleman, Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God