Sunday September 8: Come and Be Healed!

To Practice

• Pray these passages again in the manner of Lectio Divina, speaking them out loud to engage your senses and affirm them in your being. What speaks to your journey now? As you gaze at the image, what opens in you?
• View this delightful six-minute video where Thomas Keating describes the process of Divine Therapy during our time in Centering Prayer and beyond. What do you learn? If interested, this entire beautiful video series may be found here in DVD form.

If you wish, you may re-read the full email reflection here: https://mailchi.mp/coutreach/2024-word-of-the-week-sept8

I can honestly state my “willingness to suffer [my] slice of the human condition for the love of God and the healing of humanity” comes with a sizeable portion of trepidation. The “love of God” part is easier. The “healing of humanity” starts at home, with me, and therein lies my unease. With daily practice the apprehension lifts gradually. With a lifetime of practice, I may be able to “suffer my slice of the human condition” with peace. <3 linda

“BE OPENED”  an inviation this week in my pondering and my living. The image brought home the close relationship between humanity and creation. I grew up in  world where relationship to the animals was of prime importance on our survival. A horse who no longer had the energy to plough a field in teams of 6 or 8, may become the children’s horse. They drove us to school, took us out on errands. I remember the closesness and the mutual respect. Pondering this closeness I continued to ponder the theme of 2024 Season of Creation: to hope and to act with creation. Instincually a  horse only wants to be the best horse possible. The creation our God has given us has been altered in significant ways that threaten our existence. How is creation hoping and acting? in unison with you and me, with us, human beings? With respect to this question I respectfully hear: BE OPENED!”

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