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Bonnie Gray is the author of Whispers of Rest. She's also a speaker, soul care mentor, and Bible teacher. Her work has been featured at Relevant Magazine, (in)courage, and Christianity Today. We sit down to chat about:

• art for soul care,
• words derived from music and vulnerability,
• how past trauma informs her current sense of peace,
• a tender moment with a Walgreens pharmacist at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,
• the spiritual practice of listening and noticing in anxiety-driven situations,
• really seeing and validating what people are going through, and
• letting God love us more instead of doing and planning more.

She reads a chapter from her book "Choose Quiet Love." Bonnie is giving away 7 Prayers & Promises to Calm Your Soul. Her book club for Whispers of Rest, containing 40 practices to restore your soul, starts May 4. Sign up here. Find Bonnie at her website.

On Pause: Healing Words from Everyday Artists during Isolation is a special series to help creative people find groundedness, belonging, and courage during the coronavirus outbreak. Creating and absorbing beautiful words plants us firmly in awareness amidst the tsunami of thoughts and emotions we are all experiencing. I’ve asked artists to share words that are beacons of honesty, truth, and goodness to their souls during this time of distance as a global community on pause.