An excerpt from a book called 'Healing the Wounded Spirit'
'First God breathes spirit into us and then we become soul. The breath of God's life is our own personal spirit. Our spirit experiences the events of life in our body, and reacts, our soul is formed. We see the soul as a structure of heart and mind, characters and personality through which our spirit continues to encounter life and express responsively according to the way it has interpreted experience. We see 'self' as an aspect of our soul. As we develop the structure of our character in which the mind and heart interplay, that entire soul becomes in some areas a temple through which our spirits gloriously worships God and meets others or in other areas a captivity or worse yet an armored tank by which our spirit rushes out to attack others. The soul is more like clothing and the spirit lives in and through it. '
'The spirit requires nurture. We are spiritual bodies.
Sin fractured the ability of the personal spirit to sustain the body.
Our spirits flow past our skin to commune with others through touch (eg. mother holding baby)
Our spirits have energies or some kind of rays that reaches beyond our bodies.
Prayer is essential for the Spirit - communing with God.
Our spirit withers within us if we do not nurture it, feed it, and our children's will as well.
God's laughter is in the chuckle of a friend. His Spirit touches us in the flit of a monarch butterfly on the wing. God is in all and through all touching us. Only as we commune with Him directly do we retain capacity to let His Spirit touch ours meaningfully through creation.'
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