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by Flora Slosson Wuellner
From Miracle: When Christ Touches Our Deepest Need
I say to you, stand up, take your mat and go to your home.
- Mark 2:11
REST YOUR BODY, your whole self, on the underlying strength of God. Breathe slowly and fully, then naturally. Every breath is God's Spirit breathing into you.
When you feel ready, recall a time when you were so tired, depressed, or confused that you could not make choices or do anything to help yourself. Think of a time when even prayer seemed too much of an effort, a time when your inner strength was gone. Perhaps you remember a time when you felt powerless in just one aspect of your life. What happened? Did someone reach out to you? Did someone or something give you strength until you could move again, reach out, stand on your feet, and make choices?
As you reflect on that time, do you feel God was reaching out and touching you through those helpers? Did help come in some other way? Did God's Spirit come directly and carry you? Rest quietly, and give grateful thanks for the help that came, in whatever way it came. Look with God at this experience and reflect on its meaning.
Do you feel a sense of powerlessness in any part of your life right now? Is there some area in your life in which you cannot seem to move, change, or make choices even if you want to? Tell God how you feel. Say with honesty to God that you feel powerless over part of your life. Tell God if you feel that your whole life has become stalled, inert.
Ask God to take over that part of your life, to take over your whole life and carry you with the power of the Holy Spirit, to pray in you and for you. Ask God to send you others who will share their strength with you for a while until your strength returns. Rest in God, knowing that help and empowerment are already enfolding you.
Look at the days to come. Do you face a situation that seems too much for you, too overwhelming? A doctor's appointment? a new responsibility? a family problem? something else? Ask the risen Jesus to go ahead of you and prepare the way, the time, the place. Think of the Christ in that future place, filling it with light and strength, so that when you get there, you will feel peace and empowerment.
Rest quietly, gently breathing God's breath. Know that God already holds that future experience in God's healing hands and heart. When you feel ready, slowly and quietly return from your meditation.
Excerpted from pages 67-68 of Miracle: When Christ Touches Our Deepest Need by Flora Slosson Wuellner. Copyright © 2008 by Flora Slosson Wuellner. Published by Upper Room Books. Used with permission. Learn more about or purchase this book.
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