Welcome to your Alexia Divina.
Today we'll be reading the vine in the branches.
To begin,
We'll start in a comfortable seated position.
Rooting down through your sit bones,
Letting your energy pull up.
Place the back of your hands on your knees.
Feel your contact.
Ground down and become aware.
Start to notice your breath.
How does it feel?
Are you breathing with the full ribs and belly?
Or is your breath shallow?
Just notice.
If you feel comfortable,
Start to deepen every inhale,
Feeling 360 expansion through the ribs,
Through the belly.
On a big exhale,
Let your belly and then your ribs compress,
Sighing it all out.
We'll do that two more times.
Inhaling,
Deep.
Exhaling,
Sigh it all out.
One more time at your own pace.
If you feel comfortable,
You may close your eyes or keep a soft gaze.
And as I read the word over you,
I ask that you keep your heart open and soft.
Start to recognize your own behaviors.
Start to feel that connection with God and let him speak over your life,
Whether it's good or that we need change.
I am the true vine and my father is a gardener.
He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit.
Well,
Every branch that does bear fruit,
He prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
You're already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
Remain in me as I also remain in you.
No branch can bear fruit by itself,
So it must remain in the vine.
Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
I am the vine.
You are the branches.
If you remain in me and I in you,
You will bear much fruit.
Apart from me,
You can do nothing.
If you do not remain in me,
You are like a branch that is thrown away in withers.
Such branches are picked up,
Thrown into the fire and burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
Ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.
This is to my Father's glory that you bear much fruit showcasing yourselves to be my disciples.
What stood out to you in this first reading?
Do you feel clean from God's word?
Are you growing separate or with God?
I am the true vine and my Father is a gardener.
He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit.
While every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
Remain in me as I also remain in you.
No branch can bear fruit by itself,
So it must remain in the vine.
Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
I am the vine.
You are the branches.
If you remain in me and I in you,
You will bear much fruit.
Apart from me,
You can do nothing.
If you do not remain in me,
You are like a branch that is thrown away in withers.
Such branches are picked up,
Thrown into the fire and burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
Ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.
This is to my Father's glory that you bear much fruit showing yourselves to be my disciples.
How do your actions show God's fruit?
We will read the scripture one more time.
I invite you to keep your heart soft,
Your mind open to his word.
Let him speak over you.
I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.
He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit.
Well every branch that does bear fruit he prunes,
So that it will be even more fruitful.
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
Remain in me as I also remain in you.
No branch can bear fruit by itself,
So it must remain in the vine.
Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
I am the vine,
You are the branches.
If you remain in me and I in you,
You will bear much fruit.
Apart from me you can do nothing.
If you do not remain in me,
You are like a branch that is thrown away in withers.
Such branches are picked up,
Thrown into the fire and burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
Ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.
This is to my Father's glory that you bear much fruit,
Showing yourselves to be my disciples.
If you have lost your breath,
Refocus.
Let your jaw relax.
Do you feel like God is pruning you somewhere in your life?
How can you implement something new in your life that will help you remain in him?
Start to let your breath return to normal.
Feeling your sit bones grounding down into the earth.
As your spine lifts high up to heaven,
Feel the sturdiness of the floor and the lightness of the head.
Feel rooted,
Planted,
Connected.
I invite you to focus on this.
Focus on this throughout your day.
Let it be brought to your attention.
Thank you for taking time to practice with God today.
Namaste.
