Meditation for Distress, Disease, or Pain
Posted: under Advice & Tips.
Tags: anxiety, assurance, attention, awareness, breath, Christ, comfort, depression, earth, focus, global, globe, God, goodness, grace, health, Lord, man, meditation, moment, others, prayer, relaxation, scripture, soul, spirit, stress, universe, woman, world
by Robert Corin Morris
GOD’S RESURRECTION PROMISE IN CHRIST is shalom — active, bountiful goodness. “Shalom I give you, not as the ordinary world gives it” (John 14:27, paraphrase). Such bountiful goodness can flow around, through, and under any situation.
Living with disease, difficulty, or distress can sometimes be as important as curing it. Often just learning to live with the difficulty constitutes the first stage in a cure! However experienced — as light, as peace, as minor relaxation in the midst of pain, as comfort, as assurance, or as growing health — shalom comes from the Spirit itself, the Source of all goodness. A meditation such as the following one can open flesh, soul, and spirit to the Spirit’s grace, which is already more available than we realize.
Comments (0)
Sep 17 2008