Lisa Notes: How to starve a soul

How to starve a soul

1. Stay busy
Leave no empty spaces. Just do it. Go. Run.

2. Keep it light
Skim relationship surfaces. Go no deeper than socially necessary.

3. Smile and wave
Keep the inside, inside. Your feelings are for you alone.

4. Seek pleasure
Avoid pain. Discard discipline. If it makes you happy, make it yours.

5. Make today everything
Tomorrow never comes. Live for today.

6. Work it
All depends on your achievements. Your efforts. Your goals.

7. You’re # 1
Take care of you. Feed you. Love you.

And when you awake hungry, malnourished, and empty,
slow down and
dig deep and
share fully and
live purposed and
look ahead and
accept grace and
love God.

He specializes in rescuing starved souls.

God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on.

...God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.
~ C. S. LEWIS, Mere Christianity

Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good!
The young lions suffer want and hunger;
but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Psalm 34:8, 10

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How are you starving your soul?

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Dianna · 707 weeks ago

Another powerful post, Lisa. I love coming here every day ...thank you for the time you give to thoughtful, purposeful blogging, Friend.

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Lisa notes 103p · 707 weeks ago

You are a precious friend, Dianna. You definitely have fed my soul in many ways. May the Lord bless your day.

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Adoption Mama · 707 weeks ago

So good. So often we do starve ourselves thinking I can do this alone. God is so gracious and patient. Thank you for this lesson.
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Lisa notes 103p · 707 weeks ago

I know I have done that often, thinking it all depends on ME to control a situation. How futile. I continue to learn that the best way is to lean hard into the Lord and trust his work. I’m trying hard to grasp that, to help me get over the general and specific anxieties of life. The Lord’s grace will always be sufficient. I know you pray hard over situations you can’t control too. May the Lord bless those prayers.

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nikolehahn 45p · 707 weeks ago

So true. This culture does this very well.
My recent post Moses’ New Android

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Lisa notes 103p · 707 weeks ago

For sure this culture does know how to starve us. It’s easier to fill up on junk and have no stomach room leftover for God-stuff.

But reading your post on “Moses’ New Android,” I think their culture had its own ways of starving a soul too. How applicable!

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Nikole Hahn · 707 weeks ago

so true. I was thinking about our own distractions without thinking about their distractions.

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barbarah 65p · 707 weeks ago

Excellent, excellent post.
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Jill @ sweet Diva · 707 weeks ago

1,2 and 3 (& sometimes 6). Guilty. Wonderful post from one who sometimes starves her own soul, and foolishly so.
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Lisa notes 103p · 707 weeks ago

I’m guilty of all of these at different times (I guess that’s why making the list came so easily to me!). I don’t know why we often forsake the true meal for the junk food, starving ourselves in the process. Thankful for his grace to always fill us back up.

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Jason Stasyszen · 707 weeks ago

This one certainly packs a punch. What a direct and powerful post, Lisa! Thank you.
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Trisha · 707 weeks ago

Powerful post, my friend. Thank you for the encouragement and reminders.
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Mari-Anna · 707 weeks ago

Such a surefire recipe for disaster! It sure will take all air out of you just by reading it! Thank God he is always there to restore us! Thank you, Lisa! God bless you!
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ed cyzewski · 707 weeks ago

You've nailed it here Lisa. Work, distract, indulge self, and repeat is surely the path to a starved soul. I've been reminded lately that Jesus promised he would go with us, and that needs to be enough for me each day. Instead I focus on the many things I want other than him and his presence.
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Lisa notes 103p · 707 weeks ago

That’s good, Ed; his promise to go with us needs to be enough. Being in his presence is what feeds us.

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Cris Ferreira · 707 weeks ago

Great post, Lisa! Quick and right to the point, yet very profound.
By looking at both lists it is sad to see that so many people follow the recipe to starve their souls.
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Debbie · 706 weeks ago

Very insightful post Lisa! To feed our soul, we need to be able to open up and I guess risk.

Blessings and love,
Debbie

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ShaunieFriday 84p · 706 weeks ago

Excellent contrasts Lisa!
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Patricia · 706 weeks ago

powerful words... truthful words
way to bring these words.

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Caroline · 706 weeks ago

Oh my, Lisa. Oh my. Now I want a one-page printable with these statements on it to print out and look at DAILY. Great, great post. Powerful.
My recent post When You Feel Dry and Empty

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Katie · 706 weeks ago

Powerful! Spoke deeply to my soul today. Thank you!
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floyd · 706 weeks ago

Home run Lisa. Powerful truths that cannot be denied. Wow... That will wake up the sleeping heart...
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Sheryl · 706 weeks ago

I love this! Great list (that I identify with all too well), great remedies, and a wonderful quote. (Did Lewis ever say anything that wasn't spot on?!) Thank you!

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