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- Experiencing Unloading During Centering Prayer
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Adding my prayers Kathy for you and Brian.
Deepest gratitude dear Pamela, with much love to you. Brenda
Prayers please for Oriol who is undergoing a full day in the operating theatre on Tuesday 23rd April. He is gravely ill and three major surgeries will be carried out at the same time. Please pray for him, his surgical team, his family and those who love him and wait for the outcome.
Very many thanks
Prayers for Mary & her family Kathleen and for you as you walk with Mary. Prayers for Jason and Diane.
Stillness. Silence. Too deep for words.
Thank you WoW team for this reflection.
From the body of the email: with fortitude use your gifts. However small they may be. Living with chronic illness and a diminishing ability to do some things requires much fortitude to invest in the gifts diminutions bring – more stillness, quiet, prayer, enjoying nature, and learning deeper surrender and acceptance. And more. And of course, the great gift of this community. Much Gratitude to Pamela and all who bring Word of the Week to us.
Bless you & thank you very much Pamela. You & yours continue in my prayers.
I am/we are given what I/we mostly deeply need when I/we have forgotten. Last night when I read this scripture there was a response of “oh yes, of course.”
It’s a very difficult time in my family right now & I am being touched more deeply than usual by family matters & world events. I give thanks for our practices & these emails, always containing so many riches – & for Centering Prayer practiced alone, & in online groups.
Despite the seemingly insurmountable challenges, there is gratitude.
Thank you WotW for today’s prayer chapel and the Sit, reading and sharing. And very many thanks Pamela, for sharing Tom Agness’ reflection here. To be sat with & pondered. Thank you Tom.
Just one breath at a time. I am grateful to hear Sarah’s Story again – I live with a chronic condition & remembering this is a great help on difficult days.
Great thanks to Pamela & the WotW team for including it in this week’s email. 🙏🏼
For me, practicing love makes showing kindness & love to others flow more easily. I also find that it opens me to the grief I carry & makes allowing & releasing this less difficult.
Grief & gratitude, loving & grieving are companions & I am immersing myself in the Grateful Grief course being offered by Grateful Living. Vivek Murthy’s meditation fits well with where I am right now.
Thank you.
Thank you for your reflection Susan, it got me thinking. “Have you touched someone today? Have I?”
I pondered on my situation – I live alone & have a chronic condition which often limits my ability to go out, & when I do it’s not often in a situation for physical touch so those become extra special. My pondering reminded me that I/we can touch others with our heartfelt smile, a sincere word, a kind gesture, by donating to causes if & when we can. Prayer, and of course “tucking someone into our hearts” in CP, as Mary Mrozowski said.
“Christ awakens in our own hearts saying, ‘You are my body. You are my blood.’…”
Thomas Keating – Journey to the Center.
Today this stops me in my tracks. I have read and heard this before, never has it hit me so profoundly; any other words fail – staying with this in obedience – turning in the direction & listening.
Thank you Susan. I had not known of Constance Fitzgerald.
Sunday’s email touches me deeply, it is too deep for words at this point, perhaps I will not ever be able to articulate it. I certainly cannot articulate those fleeting moments of non-duality, usually out in nature, when I know and have a felt-sense that all is One. Too fleeting to grasp which perhaps is a good thing…
