Series 3: Resting In The Arms of the One Who Disarmed You: Introduction

Welcome to the Serenity in Motion podcast and this new 10-part series starting today called Resting In The Arms of the One Who Disarmed You.

It’s no secret that I am a Jesus follower. I wrote this podcast series in 2019. It’s about rest. Not about sleep, or relaxation.

Not meditation. But stillness. Peace. On the inside.

It’s really about how we lead based on how we show up. And I get to the heart of rest for me, which as a Jesus following person, has a lot to do with him.

Do feel free to skip over this series if a discussion on faith in Jesus is not something you prefer to listen to and think about.

In our MettlEdge coaching practice, we do not bring personal beliefs into a coaching conversation.

Doing so is not only unprofessional, it is unsafe, it is directive, it is biased.

MettlEdge is a group of professionally trained and credentialed strengths-driven and solution-focused coaches who have one job.

Through skilled conversation and powerful questions, our one job is to give our clients an unbiased, confidential, and welcoming space to gain clarity, make decisions, move forward, and thrive. We don’t tell people what to do. Or what to believe.

But this is not a coaching conversation, it’s a thought-provoking podcast where I talk about things that are intended to make people think.

It’s called Serenity in Motion, so I intend to talk about things that have to do with rest in the midst of chaos.

In this 10-episode series called Resting In The Arms Of The One Who Disarmed You, I’ll be sharing a serenity in motion, a find rest in chaos, story.

It’s the story that gives me life. It’s the story that compelled me to build MettlEdge. It’s the story that compels me to serve people through the vehicle of MettlEdge with excellence, authenticity, and joy. It compels me to serve both those who do and those who do not believe the same as me.

FOCUS: What’s the story that gives you life? The story that compels you to build things and serve others?  

This podcast series is all about how we lead based on how we show up.

Because how we show up sets up how and where we lead others, and ourselves. This podcast is about showing up in a way that invites connection, optimizes performance and ushers in confidence and rest. To show up like this is BOLD.

Over the past decade or so, the conspiracy of silence regarding our inner longings to be known and loved that sometimes push us into places of shame and loneliness and anxiety and hiding has been broken.

This podcast series is all about how we can move forward now that we’re talking about it. And we need many voices in the crowd talking about it.

This podcast series is just another voice in the crowd to encourage us to stir up one another to love and good works as we are called to do in chapter 10 of the book of Hebrews.

We’re emotional beings. Let’s learn to employ our emotions as our ally, rather than our enemy, learning to let our emotions stay in the game as we exercise emotional choice, rather than sidelining them for fear of their irrational influence.

Emotions, in fact, can have a very rational influence on us if we’ll listen to the messages we are sending ourselves through them and take appropriate action.

We have way more emotional choice than we may realize and we need to talk about it and learn how to exercise it. We can be educated, equipped and emboldened to live according to the power that already resides in us. The ability to exercise this emotional self-regulation is not manufactured by us, but by God Himself, according to His design.

And according to His design, we are made to experience rest in Him.

My children are nearly grown, yet the image of them in my arms, content, satisfied and at rest after having consumed another round of milk is still so powerful to me. Do you have a similar image, from your own children or have you seen it in others? If yes, bring it to mind. Put it up on the screen in your mind and look at it for a moment. Even, close your eyes and allow yourself to fully be there, right now.

SHORT PAUSE.

If you don’t have an image to recall, imagine a time you’ve seen a beautiful, sleeping baby. Let’s sit with these and feel all the feels. Resist the urge to stop yourself, and just remember. Whether this sill happens in your life daily or it been decades.

LONGER PAUSE.

Such moments with my babies powerfully put Psalm 131:2 on display. It says,

 “ But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.”

FUEL: How is your soul today? What are you thinking about right now? Spend some time with them for a moment.

Is your soul resting like a weened child within you? Are you thinking I’m crazy right now to even be asking this question? Do you just want to scream? Because rest for us is elusive, it seems impossible to hold and it can simply be discouraging to desire. It can seem to be a hopeless pursuit if you want to have it and keep living responsibly.   

It’s likely the words overwhelmed, distracted, busy, anxious, uncertain, hanging by a thread more often resemble your soul within you.

If this is the case, we do have a very strong thread to hold to in Christ.

I resemble hanging by a thread, also.

Sometimes I wonder not whether or not the thread will hold, but will I?

It’s partly why I study and research and share about this today.

It’s personal.

It’s my story as much as it’s yours.

It’s our human story. And as a follower of Jesus, I believe it’s His story. On my white board in front of me right now I’m reading the blue letters forming the words I wrote years ago and have yet to erase, “God is writing the story, not me.”

Perhaps this is why that image of my child resting so effortlessly in my arms remains in my mind – It shows us the rest we are made to experience.  

FIGHT: In what ways will you fight for rest today?  

What’s that thing popping into your mind and within your power that you can do?  

When will you do it? 

What difference will it make for you and for others when you do? 

Who will you tell? 

 

This has been the first episode in this 10-part Resting in the Arms of the One Who Disarmed You Series. A series on what I mean when I say shape your strong sense of self, belonging, and purpose.  

I hope you’ll join me next week as I talk more about this rest in the midst of the things we lose and the things we gain from change.

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I hope you enjoyed this episode and that it gave you some good food for thought. Catch you next week where we’ll dive into what it memes, I mean means, to shape a strong sense of self. 

I pray this podcast has been and continues to be a blessing.