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A Soul Care Meditation: Healing in the Soil, A Spring Blessing - Mental Health Awareness Month Edition
- Andrea Angie (GA)
- May 9
- 4 min read
Today, we welcome 'Healing in the Soil' as we Sankofa (SAHN-koh-fah) with open hands + contemplative hearts, going back to get what is precious, even as we step forward.
A Holy Haiku - Healing in the Soil
Healing in the soil
Rest in crop rotation, soul
The ground remembers
Amen + Asé
There is ancient wisdom in the soil beneath our feet. For centuries, farmers have known that the land needs rest to restore itself—a sacred rhythm of giving and receiving that mirrors our own spiritual journeys.
When we plant the same crop season after season, the soil becomes depleted. Nutrients vanish. The earth grows tired. But when we practice rotation—allowing fields to lie fallow, introducing new crops that replenish what was lost—the soil recovers its vitality and abundance returns.
Our souls follow this same pattern. We cannot constantly produce without rest. We cannot give endlessly without receiving. We cannot heal without acknowledging what has been taken.
This haiku speaks to this deep truth: healing happens in cycles of activity + rest, in the sacred pause between what was + what will be. The ground remembers what it has borne, just as our bodies + spirits carry memories of our labors + loves.
A Blessing: May we learn from the soil's patient wisdom. May we honor the necessary seasons of rest in our lives. May we trust that beneath the surface, healing continues even when we cannot see it.
The ground remembers. And so do we.
Reflection for Your Journey
What fields within your life are calling for rest? Where might you need to practice your sacred rotation—allowing certain aspects of yourself to lie fallow while others emerge from that sacred pause?
Perhaps it's your creative energy, constantly channeled into work projects, needing time to replenish through play or silence.
Maybe it's relationships that have become habitual rather than nourishing, calling for new ways of connecting or temporary distance.
It could be your spiritual practice, stuck in familiar patterns that once bore fruit but now feel mechanical, inviting you to explore different traditions or practices.
Or perhaps it's your physical space—land you tend, a home overflowing with possessions, or digital fields cluttered with information—yearning for clearing + simplicity.
Consider the wisdom of farmers who know that even the richest soil cannot give endlessly without replenishment.
For May's Mental Health Awareness Month, affirm: "Through empathy, I/we return to our belovedness + reclaim in the spirit of Sankofa, to go back and get it, by the enablement of the Holy Spirit”
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With soul,
Pastor Angie
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A Gift Set SOULution
Featuring the botanical-themed Charcuterie Gift Box
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Until next time,
Gift from your soul.
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