Water Witching the Soul

Water witching whether you believe in it or not (Personally, I think it may have to do more with some people's empathetic abilities with the natural forces than with actual witch craft.) is the most basic skill of any living creature. Finding a source of water. In the soul, I am referring to the well of eternal water which Jesus said would bubble up inside a believer.

The new church which my wife and I now attend has begun an interesting journey to finding my soul water. My recent post about my dream didn't bring forth any great dream interpretation, but it did help my to understand the meaning of my dream. God sent me the dream in order to help my understand that while I am wandering I am not lost all. The things I need are right there in my general neighborhood.

At our old church, I was spoon feed the Word of the Lord. The muscle that I like to call faith was atrophied to a small unattractive spec. But now with the new church spiritual living is not spoon feed at all. I tell my wife all the time this church is about relationship, and relationships take time. I have also come to the realization that this church is about seeking your own spiritual food not being spoon feed the Gospel. I have begun the slow but ever present search for God in my daily life. When not being feed I need to find it on my own. I am witching my soul trying to find the well that I know is just below the surface. I know I can find it, but I also know that it will come at a price. As someone in the new church said, "Relationships get messy." So does digging for a well. Breaking through the surface means coming into contact with pieces of me I wanted to bury. So, here's to digging a well and here's to finding out what God wants to show me about myself.

Dream

I just had a dream last night that had some significant spiritual tones to it. I know part of what the dream meant but now I am in need of an interpretation of what to do next. My wife suggests that I should put out there that I am looking for someone to help me interpret but not give away the story of the dream. Much like the story of Joseph I am seeking someone who could tell me what my dreams was and then tell me what it means. It is kind of scary living out something I have only read about in the Bible but the dream was that kind of dream. I really want someone to tell me what it all means. Has God giving you a message meant for me?

Neglecting the fundementals

My wife and I have been on a spiritual journey of late. We started at a new church over the summer time. The church is based off a home church model that meets as a larger community every other week. I really like the model of the church since it has challenged me to really get into relationship with those in my church group. The problem as I can see it right now is that even though the church challenges me it is not like the fundamental church that I grew up attending. My wife has really struggled with the part time nature of the church and the community. I keep telling her that it is all about relationship. I know this is true since my cousin is a regular of the same church. The model only works if we really work at making our Sundays about the relationship with the group and with the community at large. But like anything in life it takes a lot of work to make this church work for our family.

But is my wife, right? As the spiritual leader of my household is this experiment with church not good for my family? I have been feeling that I am not growing closer to God just forgetting Him. But would a normal church help me with that?