Review & Renew

Weekends are times to review your meditations of this past week. Are your reflections becoming more meaningful? Do you feel yourself learning how to find your center, to re-balance?

If these things remain difficult, part of the meditative experience involves accepting the discomfort of temporary imbalance. Grief, sadness and pain are great teachers. Yet there is no need to wallow there. Today, as you reflect on this past week’s experience, take time for gratitude. Gratitude is the greatest gift and the finest way to help us recover the balance that we, as caregivers, need so that we may let love pass through us to others.

Read back through the past week’s meditaions. See if they raise different thoughts for you than they did when you first read them. Today, write your own meditation as a gift to yourself.

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3 responses to “Review & Renew”

Karen York

July 29, 2006 at 2:01 pm

Thank you for these daily gifts of meditation. They are a perfect way to start each day.
Karen York
Alive Hospice, Nashville

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liz Wessel RN, MS SJHS Home Health Network, Orange, CA

July 29, 2006 at 2:42 pm

I agree with Karen, your meditations are a gift and I am grateful to you for your outpouring of spirit.
As I reflect on the things I am grateful for I go to a deeper level from my intellect to my heart. I am beginning to awaken to the experience of God’s unconditional love for me, as I am, not for what I do, or for what I accomplish in this world. As part of my Catholic faith tradition, we recite these words each week, “Lord I am not worthy to receive you but just only say the word and I shall be healed.” These days, I find myself uttering these additional words. “Lord I am worthy to receive you…” And for this, I am grateful.
I am truly grateful for the love and support of the special friends who bless my life. And then there is the joy of a beautiful little granddaughter who has just entered into our world this week, Cassandra Rejeanne. I am so excited and I can hardly wait to go see her today!

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Diana Gallaher

July 30, 2006 at 2:01 pm

What I am experiencing too is that even when I am feeling too rushed to do anything more than read the meditation at work, I continue to think about it. Yesterday (Saturday), prompted by one of the meditations this week, I re-read an article printed in Weavings several years ago by Sue Monk Kidd on “availability” – which is the term she was using for presence to someone who is suffering. It really doesn’t take fixing the problem to be present to someone who is suffering – this is pretty basic stuff, I know. In my work, I get frustrated because often I feel like I have failed to help someone – the folk that I talk with often do not have health insurance and have no viable option for health coverage beyond emergency room and charity. Yet again and again, people respond with gratitude when all I have done is listen basically. To quote Paul Tillich – “the first reponsibility of love is to listen.” Simple, but not so easy when I let my heart and mind get too full – there has got to be some empty space. I think providing that empty space is what the meditations do. Thank you, thank you.

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