Day 13

Today's Scripture is suitable to use with Imaginative Contemplation or 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: Imagine the scene described below.

Acts 5:12-16 HCSB

Apostolic Signs and Wonders

Many signs and wonders were being done among the people through the hands of the apostles.

By common consent they would all meet in Solomon’s Colonnade.

None of the rest dared to join them, but the people praised them highly.

Believers were added to the Lord in increasing numbers—crowds of both men and women.

As a result, they would carry the sick out into the streets and lay them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

In addition, a large group came together from the towns surrounding Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

Conversation: In these days of corona virus we have an increased awareness of sickness. You may like to talk to God about your experience of this time and ask where and how you are called to grow the good and to bring love and compassion.

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

In the Time of Pandemic

And the people stayed home.

And they read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still.

And they listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.

And the people healed.

And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.

And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed..

(Catherine M. O’Meara )

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