Regulate Relate Reason
Connecting psychology and prayer. Lectio Divina. Being a chaplain. Communion with God and others. From chaos to peace. From turbulence to consolation. Incremental steps beyond our fears, distractions, and appreciation.
Be aware. An enemy does the opposite. Divide, isolate, and conquer. Our world knows this best. It’s what evil does. It’s what fear does. This is what we counter.
The purest and most effective communication is when both speaker and listener are regulated and relate to one another. We are calm and connected. Now we actually reach the part of our brain and our spirit where healing and restoration is possible. This is where we have mutual charity.
This is how Mass is intended for our proper disposition. This is how parenting and marriage are intended. This is how our daily encounters and accompaniment with strangers is intended, This is how healing division mends fractures. This is how preaching is intended. All where the Holy Spirit has been invited and absorbed.
Slowing our breathing to deep and long breathes. Lowering our heart rate to a near sleep state. Centering only on the person before us in time eternal where we don’t recognize how much time passes.
It’s what we do with newborns naturally. Quiet, still, and perfectly in a moment that seems to fill us with the most profound sense of God. We can learn much from this how to continue treating human minds, bodies, and souls. Tenderness, mercy, and compassion.
This is evangelization and discipleship. We do not leave one another unchanged. The inefficiency of sharing God’s love. Tenderness against a hardened world. Softening the senses to our created potential. What humans have that nothing else in the universe has. The potential for healing and peace is endless. No one can take away our choice to live in this moment as a beloved child of God. It’s contagious. No degree required, just trust and love. Go make disciples and share this Good News to the ends of the earth.