Dear Spiritual Family,
How are you? How is your new year unfolding? The questions evoke the impetus to offer a reply. “I’m fine.” “I’m a bit weary” or a more middle-of-the-road, “I’m doing okay.” As to the new year’s unfolding, maybe, “More drama than expected” or “Once I get the holidays’ bills handled, perhaps then I can get a better ‘handle’ on the new year!”
Perhaps it’s good to pause here and re-discover a restorative that we can use to apply to whatever or whoever might seem to be taking us off track. Here, we refer to it as “thoughts that bring healing.” In other words, a mindset that allows us to see more clearly and therefore radiates peace to the very cells and systems of our bodies, to our affairs, and to our environs and those who populate them.
It may be more accurate to say “thoughts and feelings that heal.” How can we “repurpose” a judgment like “I’m too fat or she’s too skinny,” or (thinking bigger) “The world’s going to hell in a handbasket,” to “My body is offering me some insights; I think I’ll listen” or the levity of, “Where am I and why am I in this ‘handbasket’?”
The real thoughts and feelings that heal, emanate from our open hearts. A lightness of mood encouraging refreshing laughter and a clearer perspective are invariably found in our hearts, not in our heads. We cannot dwell on anger and upset while we simultaneously lose ourselves in the majesty of a sunset or the gift of a loving embrace or the innocent, playful question from a child.
When in your experience has there been a greater need to see beyond the appearances that divide and dissipate? Is the Divine pool of our spiritual understanding deep enough and wide enough to “quench” the fires of upset and despair, of separation and aggravation? The answer is, “Yes, for God’s Love knows no bounds and has no ending.
When we take those pauses and drink deeply from that well, we find that we are refreshed in Love and clothed in Spirit, ready and able to be the agent of healing that we came here to be.
Where am I? Happy installed in the Heart of God. And what is the “handbasket?” It is the vessel of my life – one that is filled to overflowing with all the good that I need to thrive and to serve!
We love you, Beautiful Family,
Rev. Steve and Mary
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