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REFRESH THE SOUL

What Encouragement Do You Need to Shine Your Light in the World?

Be Brave Enough To Name It

Nancy Blackman, MASF
3 min readJan 6, 2022

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How you shine your light into the world affects your ability to have your light shine bright and powerful. So, what do you need to do that?

Parker Palmer writes in A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward An Undivided Life that “we are born with a seed of selfhood that contains the spiritual DNA of our uniqueness — an encoded birthright knowledge of who we are, why we are here, and how we are related to others.”

As we grow up, some of those things get muddied by life and circumstances. If you’re experiencing that now in your life, what encouragement or motivation do you need to rise up again and let your light shine brightly into the world?

Do you need to take some solitude to rejuvenate and quiet your heart and soul enough to hear your inner Voice?

“Nobody knows what the soul is

It comes and goes

Like the wind over the water.”

— Mary Oliver

Depending on where you live geographically, the weather can play a part in how you navigate your soul work. I believe that, just as is true…

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Nancy Blackman, MASF
Nancy Blackman, MASF

Written by Nancy Blackman, MASF

Boosted & 8x Top Writer. Owner: Refresh the Soul publication. Editor: The Shortform and Poetry Playground. Published in: “Mixed Korean: Our Stories" — Kindle.

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