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Midweek Meditation – August 19
During this slowing time that this Covid-19 pandemic has afforded us, let me continue to invite us all to take time for daily devotion or meditation. Even fifteen minutes worth is good. These five short poems written by Meisaan Chan, an American spiritual director, can be used as calming mantras or breath prayers. As you repeat them …
Midweek Meditation 9
Spring has certainly beendifferent.Cool and cloudy days aplenty;some with rain. And then,the heat.Summer showing up early?While everything else seems late:the delayed returnof some song birds,the slowness of flowersto burst into bloom;the lethargy of leavesappearing on trees. Crocuses barely began to openby the end of March.Daffodils, hyacinths, tulips waited untilafter Easter.Maybe it’s just me,but I believe I recall …
Mid-Week Meditation (6)
One of the positives that’s arising during this pandemic crisis that has forced most of us into social distancing, staying home, limited travels, and self-isolation is that we are discovering and learning more about what community means, or can mean. True community happens when the individuals who are part of it each feel valued, supported, cared …
Midweek Meditation, April 22
Mid-Week Meditation (5) My eighty-something neighbour told me recently that she’s doing okay during this bizarre time. Her husband, however, according to her, is building ladders in every room; i.e., wanting to climb the walls. He was a farmer now living in a small subdivision. He will be all right soon when his sons get back out on …
Midweek Meditation, April 15
MORE ON SELF-CARE AND STRESS RELIEF The daily bits of humour being passed along online are helpful to me. Recently, there was a video of two airplanes taking off from a runway. The caption for the clip was “Relief is on the Way!” You watch the planes fly over the countryside to a nearby city. …
Holy Saturday – A Meditation
“I Am the Resurrection and the Life” He breathes beneath the face-mask,laboured breaths,hoping the fever might subside,receiving drips to help his lungs break up congestion,listening to the beeping of the monitors:heartbeat, blood pressure, neural messaging.Sweat comes and goes. Sleep is sporadic. Appetite is diminished,but he can still manageto get some food down. Two other tubesseep other medicationsinto his …
GOOD FRIDAY OF HOLY WEEK – A MEDITATION
“I Am the True or Real Vine” Rootedness could bea prerequisite for righteousness,or right relationships. There is security in feeling grounded. There is the receptiveness to being nourished,the osmosis processof acquiring nutrients, minerals, necessities for life.The system of interconnectionis neural, animating, ventilating,vitalizing, and conversationallike the way trees communicatewith one anotherthrough their root fibres,similar to how dolphins talk …
A Maundy Thursday Meditation
Thursday of Holy Week – A Maundy Thursday Meditation “I Am the Bread of Life” We were never on welfarebut I know there were times early onwhen my parents had to scrape by. The clue wasI had brown sugar or corn syrup sandwichesin my lunch bag. And one time,it was a mashed potato sandwich. It all sufficed. There …
Wednesday of Holy Week – A Meditation
“I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life” Disorientation dishevels one’s spirit;dislocation disturbs one’s roots;and social distancing takes scythes to one’s psyche.One can feel lost while still at home. One can feel confusion in the swamps of separation. One feels one is treading water in the pools of uncertainty. An escape route is prayed for; …