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Daily Spiritual Guide is a forum for meditations on living a positive, healthy and ethical life. Our purpose is to provide spiritual and practical insights useful for everyday living.

Readers will find messages dealing with issues of trust, relationships, tolerance, pain, joy, despair, fear and hope. The difficulties and happiness faced by people of every race, gender, religion, and nationality, are fuel for these pages. One may also find thoughts that contribute to better understanding of others in an increasingly small world.

Meditation on, or just a moment's pause to consider, these readings, will provide energy and sustenance for each day and serve as a reminder that strength, wisdom and hope are readily available to each of us when we allow time for discovery. Daily Spiritual Guide provides a platform for anyone to discover or share ideas that provide strength and hope to make each day a successful adventure in living.

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Being healed


. . . You know from my memoir that in the first weeks of my return from radical surgery and ensuing depression, I experienced what I can only call a vision. It came on a morning just before my five weeks of scalding radiation began, and it took the shape of an utterly real dawn encounter with Jesus on the shore of the Lake of Galilee and then waist-deep in its water.

As his disciples lay sleeping around us on the shore, Jesus silently beckoned me into the lake and, with handfuls of water, washed my ugly spinal wound and said, "Your sins are forgiven." My own immediate silent response was characteristic of my managerial impatience - "forgiveness is the last thing I need."

. . . I wanted my ten-inch tumor out of me and gone (surgery had removed only ten percent of its gray entangled mass . . .). So I dared to push past forgiveness and to ask Jesus if I were healed - "Am I also cured?" Plainly it hadn't occurred to me to wonder why the Son of God would have chosen to wash my particular wound in a teeming world of dire sickness. But after a pause that signaled reluctance, Jesus said, "That too" and walked away from me as the encounter ended.

These many months later, after an initial prognosis of eighteen months, I'm alive and appear to be strong. So I have no hesitation in believing that - at that moment in midlife burdened with decades of error from small to huge - I needed forgiveness more than I needed healing. For all the years since, though, the fact has remained that I was healed - or that my eventual healing was guaranteed in the wash of that forgiveness - on one clear alternate dawn in Galilee. Yet with all that, I've grown no better at reading my personal failings as a forecast of my fate. I expect I never shall.


- Letter to a Man in the Fire, by Reynolds Price
Scribner 1999

Surrender


Learn to surrender to the Divine Will
So you will understand quickly
And have a mind fragrant with love of God
When disaster falls on you suddenly.
While others whiten with terror
In the hour of gain or loss,
Laugh like the rose, for the rose -
Even if you tear petal after petal from it -
Never stops laughing and never grows cast down.
"Why," says the rose, "should a thorn sadden me,
When I grew this laugh because of a thorn?"

A man asked, "What is Sufism?" The sheikh replied,
"To feel joy in the heart when anguish comes."
Thank of His punishment as like the eagle
That whisked away the Prophet's sandal
To save him from the black snake in it.

God says, "Never despair
At losing what leaves you."
If a wolf comes and destroys your sheep
This misery averts worse misery,
This loss far more terrible loss.


Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
Sufi mystic and poet
B.1207 - D.1273 CE


 


 

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