dailydatewithgod

Working in the medical field, I learned the importance of the scope of practice.  The scope determines the boundaries in which one can practice medicine according to their level of licensure.  A nurse’s scope of practice is more limited than a doctor’s. A cardiologist has a different scope of medical practice than an endocrinologist. On a personal level, we ascribe scopes to people in our lives.  Our family exists within this scope, our and colleagues in another.  The scope of the relationship may be similar but each has different boundaries. People’s relationship to their scope is largely an agreed-upon matter among each culture.  Some elements of the scope are across all cultures.  God invites us to get to know the scope we work with when it comes to our relationship with all of the elements compromised in what we call the self. The scope of the heart is seen as different than the scope of the mind.  The scope of the body is different than the scope of the spirit.  To conduct oneself as a whole being, we need to find a way for these scopes to interact.  Knowing when and where it might be time to cross-scope can be the difference between surviving and thriving. As we become aware of the default scopes established in the basic human makeup, we can learn to explore the scopes we can create to be more fully present to our own lives.  We can notice when we involve the scope of our hearts with the scope of our bodies we are more likely to treat ourselves well.  When we involved the scope of our mind with the scope of our spirit we determine what it means logistically to bring our spiritual nature to something before that moment seen as solely intellectual.