Flawed as you are you stand on holy ground.
Angela Tilby
Flawed as you are you stand on holy ground.
This is the ground God has cleared for you.
God meets you here, and nowhere else.
Angela Tilby
Listen to the language of your wounds.
Jim Cotter
Image: Seonna Hong, In Tribute to the Gate of Heaven and Earth
Surely all the hard things that have happened to anyone in his creation have happened to God himself.
Cicliy Saunders
…health cannot be ensured like love and truth, it resents approaches that are too intense. We can only pay attention to the things which make health possible. Health comes as a surprise.
Michael Wilson
George McDonald said that he would not pray for someone,
but he would think of them and God together.
What the prayer for healing calls out from us is a disposition, an attitude, and a willingness,
to be with the “issue”, the “wound”, the “pain”
as imaginatively and courageously as possible,
and hold it together with an ever-to-be-expanded view of God –
the One who is –
the Source of all life and healing.
You are the healing, the loving, the touching.
You are the laughing. You are the dancing,
Jesus, Verb of God -|
You are the moving – move in me.
( a prayer from USA)
When we pray for healing, for ourselves and for others, we need to be real, and ask as clearly as we can. Being real means being vulnerable: our prayers will be raw and urgent. But as we grow in this, we also realise that the One to whom we are praying is both intimately and as immediately present to ourselves and the one we are praying for. We also realise that Jesus shows us that God too is vulnerable, that this God is the One who “touches us secretly”, as Julian of Norwich would say. It is then that our prayer for others and for ourselves can simply become an affirmation of the truth:
Enfolded in love
Enlivened and enlightened by grace
Overshadowed by Spirit
The images in this post are of work by American artist, Seonna Hong,
Seonna Hong examines the in-between period of time in life, which she describes as being neither “here nor there”, that can create a feeling of not just anxiety, but also joy and excitement for what’s to come. Created in the space of not knowing, these works have been left “in a place where there’s still more to say than having said too much.”
“The world is turned upside down, so with this new work and with where I’m at in my life, I’m moving through this space, giving in to the not knowing with hopeful anticipation for the next leap forward.“
Source: Seonna Hong’s Characters Take On New Adventures in NYC | Widewalls
To complete this series, Towards Healing, here is the inspiring story of Abby the Spoon Lady.
For a printable PDF of the text of this meditation please click on the link below.
