Introducing Sacred Spaces with Celia ✨
an invitation to behold God in the sacred spaces of your everyday life
Introducing Sacred Spaces with Celia A. Miller
Hi, friend! I’m coming to you midweek with an offering that I’m so excited to share with you today.
Before I tell you what it is, (which, I kind of already did with the big picture posted above) I’d like to ask you a few questions that I’d invite you to ponder honestly.
Are you longing to be more attentive to God’s presence in your everyday life?
Do you have the desire to know God’s love and grow in deeper communion with Him?
Are you sensing the Spirit’s invitation to grow spiritually but don’t know where to begin?
Do you feel tired, worn out, or burnt out on religion?
Are you craving rest, refreshment of soul, and perhaps a different way of being with God?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, then I want to introduce you to Sacred Spaces with Celia, an invitation to behold God in the sacred spaces of your everyday life through the exploration of Christian contemplative practices.
What is Sacred Spaces?
Sacred Spaces is an online, Substack community (much like this one) created for the God-seekers, lonely wanderers, and weary travelers, who are longing for something more in their relationship with God. This community is for those who are longing to be formed by God’s Spirit dwelling inside of them as they seek to abide in His presence and become attentive to all the ways He chooses to reveal Himself in the sacred spaces of our everyday lives.
Toward the end of 2019, I bravely named my own longing for more of God and He faithfully extended to me the invitation to behold Him in the sacred spaces of my everyday life. I began engaging with different ancient Christian contemplative practices – also referred to as spiritual disciplines, practices, or rhythms – that focused more on my heart and the Spirit’s leading than on my own performance. I started practicing being with God throughout my day rather than striving for my worth.
Reverend Summer Joy Gross describes the act of engaging with God through these Christian contemplative practices as a way to “root and establish ourselves in God’s love, to put our ear on His chest, to hear Him whisper our name, and to experience His comforting presence throughout our tender places until His love becomes Homebase”.
Her words perfectly describe the contemplative life, which may or may not be a phrase you’re familiar with. The contemplative life is an invitation into God’s love and a deep abiding with Christ as you surrender to being led and formed by the Holy Spirit’s truth, love, wisdom, and grace. This is the journey that God has invited me into and the journey He may be inviting you into today as well, friend.
What Sacred Spaces Offers You
By subscribing to the group for just $5 a month, or $55 for the year, you gain access to:
🌿 monthly emails that will be sent out on the 1st of every month containing that month’s spiritual practice, action steps and tools, outside additional resources, and weekly reflection questions
🌿 Soul Care Sessions, where you can book a 30-minute one-on-one Zoom call with me to talk about that month's spiritual practice, what the Lord is revealing to you, or what you're wrestling with. It's an invitation to come as you are as the Holy Spirit leads our time together and cares for your soul
🌿 a community chat in the Substack app where you can engage with me and other community members about that month’s email or whatever else may be stirring within you
If you’d like to read more about this offering, check out the ‘about’ page for Sacred Spaces here: Sacred Spaces with Celia
The first email containing the first spiritual practice will be landing in subscribers’ inboxes on February 1st (that’s 3 weeks from today! 🎉) so if you feel called to this group, I’d encourage you to subscribe before then so you can start receiving this content asap!
I’d be honored to have you join me on this journey together of beholding more of God in the sacred spaces of our everyday lives.
peace be with you,
celia