🧭 The Week Ahead: Raising Simpler Souls
June 9-13
🙏 Ancient Prayer (Adapted from Augustine, 354–430 A.D.)
O Holy Spirit,
Come into this neglected dwelling—this soul that longs to be Your temple.
Shine in the dark corners.
Water what is barren, and make it fruitful again.
Come, refresh the faint.
Be the guiding light for those tossed by the storm.
Be the only safe harbor for the shipwrecked.
Come, Spirit of mercy,
And make us ready to receive You.
Amen.
—Prayer adjusted for clarity and devotion by G.M.
💬 Reader Reflection
“Gene routinely asks the kind of soul-forming questions I dream of coming up with on my own. I assume maybe it’s that ‘slow walking’ lifestyle of his!”
Raising Simpler Souls
This week at The Compass, we turn our attention toward the spiritual climate of the home.
Not idealized, not Instagrammed—just real spaces, full of noise and grace and possibility.
What does it mean to raise simpler souls in a culture of too much?
What rhythms shape our households—on purpose or by accident?
And is it too late to start again?
📅 Coming This Week on The Compass
Monday
📝 Raising Simpler Souls: A Spiritual Formation Series for Families in a Culture of Too Much
A soul-stirring introduction to the problem behind the pace. What’s happening in our homes—and what it might take to reclaim them.
Wednesday
📄 A Rule of Life for Families Who Want Less Noise and More God: Because Healthy Homes Don’t Happen by Accident
In a noisy world, our families are being formed—by accident or on purpose.
This post draws on trusted vocies like Dallas Willard, Pete Scazzero, and Steve Macchia to unpack the spiritual value of creating a gentle, grace-filled trellis for the soul—what the Church has long called a rule of life.
Includes a printable Rule of Life tool for paid subscribers to help you name and live into rhythms that bring peace, depth, and presence.
Thursday
🎧 The Rhythms that Hold Us: How a Family Rule of Life Grew Without Us Realizing It
A story about how our family lived into seasonal and daily rule of life rituals and rhythms to stir your own creativity about what can form in your family.
Friday
🔥 Can Someone Stop the Merry-Go-Round: Why We’re Losing Our Kids to the Pace of the Culture
A prophetic call to notice what’s happening to our children, our marriages, and our souls—and to recover the Church’s role as soul-keeper, not speed-chaser.
🔓 Want More Than Reflections?
Each Wednesday, paid subscribers receive a full-length spiritual formation tool—printable, beautiful, practical. It’s our way of anchoring soul work into real life.
This week’s tool: A Rule of Life for Families Who Want Less Noise and More God
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✨ A Blessing for the Week Ahead
May your home hold more presence than performance.
May your table echo with laughter, and your evenings linger in grace.
And when you forget what matters most,
May a candle in the window remind you God is still near.
And it’s not too late to begin again.