Meditation – April 29, 2009

Posted on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Scripture: Search me. O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Psalm 139:23
Prayer: Let me know your presence in the stillness.
Response: Isn’t it extraordinary for you that in the absolute stillness of this early morning, before the sun has even hinted a presence, that I am closer than a companion who in the past might have surprised you with a cup of coffee? You don’t have to look up; I am everywhere you look, even when you close your eyes. I give you the discrimination to distinguish aloneness in my presence from loneliness. For this moment, there is no clamor of the soul.
I do know the stirring of your heart. I am the calm and stillness that descends over you when you no longer can distinguish who is observing and who is observed. I am your recognition that you lack nothing. No need to travel afar for a quiet place of prayer and contemplation. That place is here, that time is now.
In this special moment, your anxious thoughts evaporate like a morning fog, or dead growth pruned from an otherwise healthy plant. Most especially in time you come to realize your dawning consciousness is related most intimately to you accepting and acknowledging that I know your heart, especially those anxious thoughts that seek to disturb your harmony.
All for this morning.
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Meditation – April 27, 2009

Posted on Monday, April 27th, 2009

Scripture: While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” Luke 24:36
Prayer: I allow this dramatic scene following the resurrection to lose its impact because the words are so familiar.
Response: At least you are aware of your lack of attention. This indicates a dawning consciousness. Consider that the very lack of drama to the scene – Jesus simply appears –prompts you to become still. No trumpets, no gongs, no lengthy introductions – Jesus simply appears. It is that appearance in your life that I am asking you to take into your heart.
Think back when you became aware of his presence. Was it in a sign that shifted the direction on a road you were traveling – literally or figuratively? Was it a chance encounter with a stranger who offered the very wisdom that you were seeking up until then in vain? Was it an incomprehensible sense of peace that overcame you at a time of crisis? Was it a prayer that you uttered in the morning from the depths of sorrow, only to find joy in the evening?
Don’t expend energy wondering did Jesus really rise from the dead. Instead observe and witness the miracle of that rising in your life each day and share that truth with those whom you encounter – not so much in words, but in service and acts of love.
All for this morning.
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Meditation – April 25, 2009

Posted on Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Scripture: For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. Ephesians 1:4>/i>
Prayer: A short verse that touches on mysteries I am unable to comprehend. Lead me.
Response: It would help, if you could suspend the notion of linear time as you suspend disbelief when you go to the theater or view a film or extravagant performance. Choosing you is an instant in time in the present. The Godhead brings you to existence this very moment energetically, like a sneak preview before the curtain is pulled open – such is his love and expectation.
Consider this swirl of energy as love, something only manifest in performance of service, compassion, dedication, as what brings you into existence and sustains you in all the trials that you face. And the Godhead endows you with a mission, provides you music to release, even prior to your awareness and dawning consciousness.
In divine patience, the Godhead awaits your awakening from slumber, your birth as it were; to witness the dawning light within you that sparks your environment with his presence so that it too becomes holy and blameless in his sight. From events in your world, you can see that his patience is divine and that an awakening in consciousness waits all who slumber yet. Be an awakener.
All for this morning.

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Meditation – April 24, 2009

Posted on Friday, April 24th, 2009

Scripture: Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16.3
Prayer: Help me to understand further commitment.
Response: That isn’t your real question. You are reconsidering you can do one thing – like commitment – and receive the hoped for result, leading you to believe that you exercise an element of control in the process. Cleanse your mind of such thinking because it is indeed your mind and ego that become involved and I want your heart to be involved exclusively.
Commitment is of the heart. In commitment there is no attachment to a hoped for outcome. In commitment there is conscious trust. In commitment of the heart there is hope. In this verse you are encouraged to restore balance in your being. The verse is about new beginnings each moment. A life of commitment to the Lord is a life where all your plans succeed in the surprise of grace. There is no ledger to be maintained, no averages of success to calculate, simply acceptance and routine to be cultivated.
A life that is committed to the Lord is one that reflects a harmony that flows without attempting to control immovable forces, but rather dances, as it were, among what had previously been considered contrary forces. Instead of meeting the wave straight on, a life of commitment is riding that wave to the shore – even if that shore is far distant.
All for this morning.
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Meditation – April 23, 2009

Posted on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Scripture: “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your father has been pleased to give you the Kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Luke 12:32-34
Prayer: Flocks, treasures, kingdoms, and thieves. It is difficult for me to stay with one image. Help me this morning.
Response: First, these words do not describe some fantasy kingdom. You are being invited to prepare for the journey of your life – your eternal life. Despite your trepidation, you are being encouraged and calmed as a parent addresses a child in the diminutive form of speech that might sound foreign to you. The reward awaiting you down the road is what has been promised to you by one so pleased to welcome you.
In preparation for the grand celebration, you are invited to let go of what you are still hauling behind you and to put those burdens to good use in service to the poor, those despairing, the lonely, the infirm, and you could fill in quite a full list. What you let go is a faint comparison to what you inherit in this Kingdom. Fit your treasure within on the eternal that proves to be inviolable. It’s as if you reach an international border station and those charged with discovering contraband wave you through, unable are they to comprehend the depth of the treasure you are becoming.
Be steady in your footfall as you move along the path, confident of your direction, listening closely for him who moves before you, just ahead.
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