5 Gentle Movements of Grace to Reduce Stress during Anxious Days

As I fed our little flock of sheep this morning, as I piled and fluffed the hay and they calmly chewed, as I carried the buckets of grain and our ewes and one fine ram ate and deeply drank,  I kept thinking of the ways of the Good Shepherd’s own little flock calmly lives into the spacious, non-anxious presence of God and these 5 gentle movements of grace to reduce stress during any anxious days:  1. Walk: Walk out Whatever’s Tangling You Up: Finding some quiet pastures, a bit of green, a tree or two, a trail under some leaves, some still waters –  is all a way to do more than what the Japanese call “forest bathing” by having what I call a  long “glory soak,” getting outside and soaking in the divine glory that fills the whole world, a way to cleanse the mind, breathe in deeply and move your body to move the stress through. Practice a daily rhythm of a 30 minute walk outside a day and you decrease your risk of depression by 25% percent. 2. Word: Steeper the Mountain in Front of You, the More the need to Steep in His Word: Open His […]