A spiritual awakening is not a single event that happens once and is done. It is an ongoing, evolving recognition of how far we have grown — in our thinking, our actions, and our emotional life. If we don’t take time to measure that growth, we miss the evidence of transformation that is happening right before our eyes.
The 90-Day Spiritual Inventory
We must see how far we have grown on a regular basis — at minimum, every 90 days. What we’re looking for in this inventory is how we are able to think, do, and feel since our spiritual awakening that is different from how we used to think, do, and feel. What constitutes a spiritual awakening changes all the time; the meaning evolves as we do. We’re looking for how we are able to think more expansively, more peacefully, more soundly as a result of our spiritual awakening — to define concretely where we are at spiritually right now.
Self-Love as a Measure of Spiritual Growth
An essential part of clarifying what we’re able to think, do, and feel is connecting with self-love. Self-love is something we are able to feel more today than ever before — and that growth is part of the spiritual awakening. It is not enough to simply think a thought like “I am a good friend.” We must connect to the feeling of well-being that comes from being a good friend — find a specific example, name it, and then emotionally inhabit it. Emotions are power. A spiritual awakening touched only by thought stays abstract. But when we connect it to emotion, it carries with us through the day.
The practice is this: write down and emotionally connect to what you can think, do, and feel today that you couldn’t do on your unaided strength before your spiritual awakening. Don’t let it be nebulous. Connect to the real feeling of self-love — specific, felt, lived. This is how spiritual growth becomes something you can actually sense rather than just describe.
Asking God to Show You How to Love Yourself
Just as we talk to God and ask God to be with us in our minds, our thoughts, and our actions, we can apply that same principle by asking God to show us how to love ourselves — to connect to the real feeling of love, not just say the words or let them float by unanchored. Self-love is something we are learning to do more and more every day. It becomes a daily discipline, same as conscious contact with God.
Have fun with your spiritual awakening and recognizing how far you’ve come. It’s about taking care of ourselves today. It’s about feeling good about who we are today while we continue to improve. We must have absolute reverence for who we are today — and for who we are becoming.
Much love,
K.C.
- A spiritual awakening is not a one-time event — it is an ongoing evolution measured by how we think, act, and feel differently than we used to.
- Conduct a spiritual inventory at least every 90 days to concretely recognize how far you have grown.
- Self-love is a measure of spiritual growth — and it must be felt emotionally, not just thought intellectually.
- Emotions are power; spiritual insights that are felt, not just thought, are the ones that stay with us.
- Ask God to show you how to love yourself — and connect to that love as a daily discipline, not a one-time realization.
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