Sacred Self-Care

This Lent, we're exploring what it means to practice sacred self-care in a world that often demands our constant output and sacrifice. Drawing inspiration from Dr. Channequa Walker-Barnes' transformative book "Sacred Self-Care," we'll examine how caring for ourselves can be both a spiritual practice and an act of resistance against systems that try to diminish our worth. Over six weeks, we'll look at self-care as reparative, subversive, mindful, embodied, emotionally honest, and compassionate - discovering how Jesus' life and death actually free us from cycles of coercive sacrifice rather than demanding more from us.

We invite you to journey with us by picking up a copy of "Sacred Self-Care" and reading along. Walker-Barnes offers profound insights into how marginalized communities especially can reclaim self-care as a sacred practice rather than just another item on our to-do lists. Her daily devotionals will complement our Sunday messages as we explore together what it means to hold ourselves with the same compassion and dignity that God extends to us. Let's enter this Lenten season not through deprivation, but through life-giving practices that help us embody a more beautiful way of being.