Day 12

Today's Scripture is suitable to use with Imaginative Contemplation or the song can be used with Lectio Divina

Stilling: Come into the presence of God and still yourself

Grace: At this time of need: to be open, to be touched, and to be formed by God who IS love and compassion.

Prayer Suggestion: As you pray with this passage, let your body “speak” your response to Jesus.

Alternatively look at the words of the song and notice if any word or phrase strikes you. You might like to click on the link and dance to the song.

Mark 1:40-44 HCSB

A Man Cleansed

Then a man with a serious skin disease came to Jesus and, on his knees, begged Him: “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”

Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out His hand and touched him. “I am willing,” He told him. “Be made clean.”

Immediately the disease left him, and he was healed.

Then He sternly warned him and sent him away at once, telling him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer what Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

Conversation: Have a talk with Jesus about what has struck you during this meditation.

Finish with a final prayer such as the Lord's Prayer/Our Father

Teach me to dance (song by Graham Kendrick)

Teach me to dance to the beat of your heart

Teach me to move in the power of your Spirit

Teach me to walk in the light of your presence

Teach me to dance to the beat of your heart

Teach me to love with your heart of compassion

Teach me to trust in the word of your promise

Teach me to hope in the day of your coming

Teach me to dance to the beat of your heart

You wrote the rhythm of life

Created heaven and earth

In You is joy without measure

So, like a child in your sight

I dance to see your delight

For I was made for your pleasure

Pleasure

Let all my movements express

A heart that loves to say 'yes'

A will that leaps to obey you

Let all my energy blaze

To see the joy in your face

Let my whole being praise you

Praise you

Teach me to Dance from joyful pre-social-isolating days....Graham Kendrick sings at Royal Albert Hall

Teach me to Dance - sweet American version

Teach me to Dance - original version

Buy the Graham Kendrick CD with this song on.

A Thought for Today

One of the most effective ways of stilling ourselves in the presence of God is to enlist the help of our bodies.

Open hands might say “Here I am Lord”.

Cupped hands- “I am ready to receive whatever you choose to give me”

Stretched hands might welcome or beckon.

Lying prostrate on the floor might express your emptiness and God´s fullness or your poverty and God´s abundance.

Kneeling may be an appropriate sense of gratitude and humility.

Standing could say “I am ready”.

With our bodies “speaking” in whatever terms seem appropriate our Whole bodies become alert and aware of God´s presence.

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