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2020 by Barbara L. Peacock
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To Gilbert,
my husband and prayer covering,
thank you for leading our devotions
and for all the great meals.
You are a wonderful and loving husband,
but most importantly you are a man of God.
For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all Gods people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
T hroughout the centuries, prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care have been woven into the fabric of the African American culture. While soul carers in our community do not necessarily have the formal title of spiritual director, they have been operating in such a capacity for decades.
My first models and mentors in spirituality were my grandmother, Mrs. Ellie Powell Peacock, my mother, Mrs. Sarah Peacock Lewis, and numerous aunties and uncles. How precious are my memories of them! They did not have official roles as spiritual leaders and contemplatives, but they devoted themselves to God and his people, and to the disciplines of their Christian faith.
Our familys spiritual practices included prayer, Bible reading, singing, listening, silence, solitude, attending church, and enjoying Gods creation. The beautiful Carolina farmland God blessed us to tend was truly a gift. Many of the disciplines of my Christian faith were not learned from a book but instead implicitly from the natural environment surrounding our humble home. In those days of the fifties, sixties, and early seventies, we werent inundated with technology. Therefore living a life of simplicity was not a chore; it was all we knew.
I was joyfully raised in an environment where everyone farmed, and this shaped my learning. I learned from the land, the animals we tended, and farming ethics. The norm was to rise early in prayer in preparation for the tasks that lay before us. Such tasks included feeding the chickens, cows, pigs, horses, dogs, and cats; hoeing tobacco; picking strawberries, blueberries, grapes, apples, peaches, and cucumbers; and gathering walnuts and pecans. There is so much to be said for this rich heritage, though we were not considered rich at the time. Such humble beginnings have shaped me to be a natural caregiver, an intentional listener, a prayerful disciple, and a studious student. For me, life, ministry, and spiritual disciplines began on the farm.
Due to my simple farmland lifestyle, I naturally gravitate to disciplines geared to form the soul. In particular, I am drawn to prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care. Undoubtedly these are my passions.
The unconditional love of my forebears was evident. In addition to thanking God for my maternal parents, I have a tremendous amount of gratitude toward my paternal parents. I thank God for my father, Arie Lewis, and for his father, Atlas Lewis, and my mothers father, Richard Peacock. Both my grandfather on my daddys side and my great-grandfather on my mamas side were among the founders of schools and churches in their respective communities. This legacy continues in the noted communities of Bladen and Columbus counties in North Carolina. I am eternally grateful that their legacy continues through the spiritual lines of thousands of men and women of God, myself included. Because of their God-inspired tenacity, I am able to press forward to impart what God has given me in my garden of life. Thus, in the spirit of my foreparents, we continue our sacred journey together.
Our home church, Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church, was where I received Christ as my Lord and personal Savior. During the fall revival of 1967 I asked him to come into my life and save me. To this day I can hear the church mothers saying, He loves you. Just ask him into your heart. He loves you. Over and over, they kept telling me how much Jesus loved me. And I believed them with everything in me! On this foundation, my faith journey of love began. And truly love is the foundation of my Christian experience. Most importantly it is the foundation of the Christian faith.
As Thomas Merton said, many Christians have practically no idea of the immense love of God for them, and the power of that Love to do them good, to bring them happiness. Many of us do not fully experience the joy of life, simply because we do not know the immense love that God has for us (as stated simply in John 3:16). One of the great markers of spiritual maturity is growing in awareness of the depth of Gods love.
I thank God for his faithfulness toward my siblings and me in that he blessed us with an environment of a loving, caring, and nurturing community, including our parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, and cousins. Such a foundation in my Christian journey allows me to seek ways to love unconditionally. Consequently I emphatically embrace the theology of love. I believe that love covers all kinds of sin. I believe what the world needs more is love. And is love not the greatest commandment? This is the greatest call:
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