Let us rest
— Stage seven

1. Review and Intro to Stage 7 - Let us rest!

In 7 Days, God created the heavens and the earth. Rest is the ultimate act of creation. It creates alignment: a recognition of identity - we are humans and God is God. What does surrender look like? What does rest look like? What happens when we let it be? Rest says there’s enough. It’s enough. You’re enough. God’s enough. We need rest to teach us the story of enough.

1. Intro to Stage 6 - Let us Co-Create!

A huge invitation! Welcome to the world of beauty, purpose and intricacy. You arrived here as a co-creator. What is it to move with God in our work? What is it to be present to God as we are present in the world? We join God in the hand-in-hand journey of filling, blessing and multiplying.

1. Intro to Let there be Abundance

Like the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, the air that surrounds you and the ocean’s waves - there is abundance all around us. The world was created from the abundance of God’s love, life and creativity - it’s part of who you and I are as children of God. Let’s listen to God to discover how abundantly God has been available to us throughout our lives. Let Jesus remind you of a time you felt full of life.

1. Intro to stage four

Let there be lights that shine in the vault to serve as signs for the seasons! What a statement. God’s words are expansive, directive and they bring light to the areas of our life that seem like a void. Creation displays the expansiveness of God’s universe. Ask God about the areas of your life that feel void.

1. Intro to Ground/seed/grasses/trees

God built into your life this reality: you are grounded. You can find your footing! And under your feet - built into the ground - is seed full of the potential for life abundant - trees, fruit and more seed. What in your life needs to be planted like seed and watered? Can we recognise the power of the ground that God has put beneath our feet?

1. Let there be God's kind of Separation

Just like the boundaries between the ocean and the land, distinctions and healthy separations bring expansiveness to life. What is God’s kind of separation? What would benefit from God’s kind of separation in your life today?

1. The Rabbi Story

Intro to the ONE Journey: Who are you? What are you doing here? The ONE Journey is really about these two questions. Understand how these questions will be discovered and uncovered throughout the Journey. A forgiveness practice and Genesis 1-3 are foundational to this process.

2. Rest, foreign territory or home?

How can rest be so difficult to engage and yet it feels like a return to home at the same time? Let’s ask Jesus to help us understand how rest has been like home and how it has been foreign to our lives. At the end of this video, you’ll have one simple practice that will foster rest in your life today.

2. Core Drivers in light of Co-Creating

Ask Jesus about how your core drivers have enabled you to move with God in the world. Listen as Jesus helps you see how you uniquely function in the world.

2. Listening to Jesus about Abundance

What story gets in the way of our ability to see, enjoy and engage the abundance of life? Original creation and blessing precedes the story of original sin. Part of the burden of original sin is that the way we view the world is through the lens of lack rather than abundance. And yet, the abundance of creation is real and present for us to discover and see.

2. The Movement of Phase 4

These movements are simple but will help you remember the incredible power of the movement of God’s design in creation. Remind yourself - body, heart and mind - of God’s creative flow of life in your life now. Eyes closed, notice the light and open slowly. Breathe and notice the separation of your breath. Feel the ground under your feet. Stretch up to the sky.

2. Forgive Life

We have everything we need now, but it hasn’t always felt that way has it? We aren’t sure if we’ll have all we need for what is to come in 10 minutes. It is tiring to live life worried about whether there will be enough. Forgiving life includes releasing ourselves from the impossible burden of making sure life turns out right. This is not my job or yours, but as humans we like to try. God alone is the judge of life and the provider - life is accountable to God, not to us. Write an honest letter to life.

2. Tool: Separating out the Story

Brene Brown taught us the helpful phrase, “The story I’m telling myself is…” How you can think with God about that story and hear from God’s point of view in the narrative. This practice is easy to do on a daily basis and helps us get unstuck from past interpretations allowing us to become present. What is real is that you are alive and present now and God is with you. Let God un-stick you from the story you are telling yourself from the past.

2. Let There Be Light

The foundational declaration of Stage 1 is: let there be light! The Spirit of God created all of life through these foundational words. You and I are made to live in the light because we are made of light. A reading from Colossians 1. Explore what it means to think we are alienated from God. How do we process our thought life? How do we share in the thoughts of God? Bring your questions and come as you are!

3. Rest is for all of life/Hourglass Picture

We live from rest not for rest. We live from belonging and not for it. We were designed to be present. How can we relate to the past, present and future from a place of rest? Through redemption, forgiveness, presence and co-creation. You aren’t stuck in the past, you just may be recreating what’s old! It’s time to move in the present freely creating with God and each other.

3. Earth-Changing Forgiveness

When people groups hurt other people groups, everyone suffers. Navigate forgiveness of whole groups of people with Jesus. God has already forgiven, it’s ours to apply. This is a practical way to move in blessing and forgiveness rather than re-creating the trauma of the past.

3. The story of Lack

Seeing the abundance of our lives enables us to quiet the discontent of “not enough.” Even in the garden of Eden, humans wrestled with the reality of abundance and the concern of lack. We were made in the image of God, the very thing Eve had was the thing she sought: to be like God. If only we could practice seeing what “is” - that we are like God, made in God’s image as children. As humans, we belong to the family of God - there is no other Source of your life. Let’s listen to Jesus dismantle the story of lack.

3. Forgiving People/Types of Trauma

Your guide to forgiving other people. In our lives, we’ve experienced so much together - we have so much to be grateful for, so much to remember, so much to enjoy and so much to forgive. Forgiveness is an essential piece of your life - let’s practice!

3. The Movements of Phase 1,2 & 3

Use these movements everyday to help you remember the creative flow of life that God designed for us to thrive in. Remember to remind yourself of what is real - what God has done in creation wasn’t just real in the beginning…it’s real and true and happening today.

3. Tool: Baby Box

This tool is helpful for getting past limitations and old ways of thinking. Sometimes we feel like we are imprisoned but you and I were designed to flow like a river. Full of life and freedom. If you feel limited, it’s likely true and it’s because of limiting thoughts. Connection with God unlocks us from our boxes.

3. Forgiveness

Every stage of the One Journey includes the core practice of Forgiveness. It brings true freedom and authenticity to your life. How can we practice forgiveness easily in bite size pieces everyday and why would we want to?

4. Forgiveness and Rest

Release yourself from your past poor resting habits. Time to release control, forgive the past and move into the gift of surrender, the gift of being a human. Ask Jesus to help you lean into the creative grace of rest as a lifestyle - you cannot try to be God and rest at the same time. What in your life could benefit from real rest?

4. Pain Processing Pathway with Rosalind

4. The Movement of Phase 5

Hands open, ready to receive and discover all the abundance that God has built into the world around us. It’s at hand now.

4. PTS/PTG and Types of Trauma

4. God's separation brings distinction, beauty and freedom

What waters your life? Learn the simplicity of prayer that aligns you with the great flow of creation as established by God in Genesis 1. The creativity of God brings the kind of separation that gives life and beauty. Practice asking God to show you what is real about God’s kind of division.

4. Guided Forgiveness Practice

A “How to” guided forgiveness exercise. Ask Jesus who it would help you to forgive. Ask Jesus to help you make a list of what is owed. Ask Jesus to help you and let Jesus pay. Release the person, group or situation from your judgment, entrusting them to the one just judge.

5. Core Drivers: Two Trees in the Garden

Your core drivers are a roadmap for eating from the tree of life instead of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Life trumps judgment everytime. Creative flow happens when we move from connection instead of control. Our journey as humans was designed for integration into the flow of creation as established by God in Genesis 1. Listen to God about the difference between Genesis 1 and Genesis 3 for you. (see questions in article/pdf).

5. Mutuality & Signs of Life

5. A conversation about every human journey

5. Core Drivers - Division, False Success and Stress

Just like beauty, joy and alignment has been birthed from our core question, so has a false sense of success and stress when our core drivers functioned in unhealthy ways. Seeing this helps us become aware of what we want to choose in the here and now. There is a path that leads to life, it’s important to recognize what leads to stress rather than to joy in life. Watch the video below to get started.

5. Core Drivers: Joy and Alignment

When your core question and curiosity move you - joy and alignment happen. God created it to work this way. Joy to the brain is this: someone is glad to be with me. Belonging shapes our lives. Ask Jesus how your core question has functioned to create joy and alignment for you? Understanding this natural flow will help you see the beauty and uniqueness of your life.

5. A tool for getting unstuck and regaining your choice

Story, feelings, Action. What do you think? What does it mean? What do you do? This is the natural path of processing that we are experiencing constantly. If we slow this process down, we regain the power of our choices. Ask God to help you see, interpret and give you ideas for how to move/act in a way that is life-giving.

5. So Many Voices

Our minds are constantly processing information and input. Our brains are the main communication center of our bodies. God is speaking and the processing of that communication will happen in your thoughts/mind. How can we discern the difference between random thoughts and the still small voice of God?

6. Rest is the heart of the barn with Jay Heck

6. Core Drivers: Core Flow

The final driver is core flow! Think of flow like you think about what happens as your heart pumps blood to your body - it’s essential for your livelihood. Hear from Jesus about what your core flow is and how it has functioned in your life.

6. Core Drivers: Core Desire

The authentic you has deep desires that are God-given. They aren’t shameful or selfish, they are built into you for your own good and to bring beauty and life into the earth. Discovering and embracing your core desire is important for you to flow freely as the person God made you to be. Let’s ask Jesus about the core desire He placed in you at creation. Watch the video below to get started.

6. Conversation with Jay Heck

6. Receiving Forgiveness

What is it to let ourselves be forgiven? Living into what is real requires forgiving ourselves because the truth is that we have already been forgiven by God. How can we practice receiving the grace, love and forgiveness of God? It’s ours to choose. Ask Jesus to help you see where it would help you to receive love and forgiveness in your life.

6. Brain Dump

An exercise in processing thoughts with God. This will help you regardless of where you find yourself today. If you are deep in thought, distracted, triggered, clear minded - it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you show up honest for this practice.

7. Validation Brings Rest with Zach Leal

7. What is Flow?

The way “we” (God and I) move together. The way I (God) engineered you. The way you “serve me.” The way you feel present to Me and embodied or ONE with Me.

7. Dopamine, Trust and Rest

7. Maturity Indicators - The way we were made to grow (with Rosalind)

7. Core Driver: Distinction/Division

Your God-given Core Question has shaped your path. It has created unique skills and opportunities that have brought certain distinctions to your life. At the same time, that same question when twisted, can create a real sense of division from ourselves and others. Recognising this matters so we can lean into the path of life - the distinctions, and avoid the pain of division.

7. God's voice sounds like love and life

The foundational keys to recognize the voice of God. Paying attention to what comes to the screen of your mind after you turn your attention to Jesus is a practice to cultivate. God’s voice always comes from love: the root and fruit of God’s voice will always be love. It is life-giving, not fear producing.

8. Guided Prayer Practice: The Husk & the Seed with Zach Leal

8. Intro To Life Model

8. Hearing God is like breathing

Your breath is a great example of how near God is to you right now. You breathe automatically whether you try to or not. You can also pay attention to your breath and choose to take deeper or more shallow breaths. That’s just like hearing God! It happens when you aren’t aware, but you can lean in and engage with God’s voice too.

9. Distractions will actually help you hear God

Don’t dismiss your distractions! Instead, engage God in conversation where you are - meaning you can share exactly what you’re thinking (good, bad or ugly) with the Source of all life, God. Practice engaging dialogue with God through distraction rather than deciding that you are distracted. Your thoughts are always an invitation into connection with God.

10. Nothing is never nothing

What do you do when you are trying to hear God and nothing comes!? Cayce helps us see that “nothing” is never not anything. The trick is to describe nothing. How does it feel? What does it tell you? What else is coming to mind about not getting anything? You can easily recognize the “something” that’s always there in the middle of nothing.

11. Getting Past Blocks

Feeling blocked or stuck is a real thing! Who hasn’t felt that at times? Here’s your “How to” on getting unstuck and moving past what seems like a blockage. Most of the time being stuck is actually very helpful - it’s highlighting something for us. If we can lean in and see what God is highlighting, you are in for some real breakthrough. Recognize the difference between a block and choosing to stop.

12. Reminder: Everyone can hear God

Really? Everyone can hear God? Yes! Hearing is built into human life. You have heard, you can hear and you will. You are not the only person who can’t - don’t worry! This stage is all about discovering that you already do hear God’s voice - it is sustaining your life - it is the light of your life. You can, you will, you have - that’s what’s real about the voice of God.

13. Review, How to Hear God Now

The key is tuning in to your thoughts and processing your thoughts. This is easy and only takes a few seconds but learning how easy it is can be hard! You can engage with God because God is with you, always. Turn your attention to what “is” rather than staying in the un-reality that you are alone. You are not in a monologue up there in your thoughts - it’s the realm of dialogue!

14. Forgiving God

Do we need to forgive God? Is that weird? Yes and no. You might find this conversation and practice helpful! As a child of the Creator - we have often misunderstood and not known certain things, just like kids do - let Jesus speak to you and bring healing in areas where you have experienced hurt - especially if it’s linked to your view of God.

15. Core Drivers 1: Intro & Core Question