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August 13,
2008
Over in the Glory Land
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Ten Minute Meditation
Sister Patricia Proctor, OSC
Spokane, Washington
Today might be a nice day to sit in your garden for a few minutes and think of all the ways that you have been blessed with kindness by people doing loving things for you.
I remember my mom used to get us drinks of water when we were sitting watching television or reading a book. We were the lazy ones while she was busy working in the kitchen, but she seemed so glad to do that for us.
I remember when my sister Euli sewed me a Paddington bear for Christmas one year—stitch by stitch, all by hand. She even made him little clothes.
When my sister Barb was eight years old and I was nine, she made me a set of little wooden boxes that fit inside each other. They had little leather hinges. The wood was from a piece of plywood we had which was old and weathered. The only thing she had to cut the pieces with was just a plain wood handsaw, so the boxes were a bit rough but I so loved them! I could not bring many things to the monastery when I entered but I did bring one of those little boxes.
Good memories are like patchwork quilts, no two remembrances alike and yet when sewn together make a very warm and protective comforter of friendship and love.
Spend time today remembering when you have been blessed by others. This exercise will cheer up even the dreariest day!
Prayer when time is completed:
Jesus,
thank you for friends,
and family,
and even strangers
who have blessed me
in so many ways.
Amen.
Comment
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/monasticmoments/archives/146098.asp
From the book 101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer
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“Son of man, you live in the midst of a rebellious house; they have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.... They tempted and rebelled against God the Most High, and kept not His decrees .... I say to you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times!”
Pantomime Prophecy
Ironically, Ezekiel was already in exile himself when he was instructed by God to perform a “pantomime” prophecy for his fellow deportees to announce to them the future exile of the king and remaining citizens in Jerusalem.
The pantomime proved to be remarkably prognostic: when Jerusalem’s main defenses were penetrated by Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian army in 587BC, King Zedekiah and a handful of nobles furtively fled in the night through a back gate “hole in the wall,” but they were soon captured. In punishment, Zedekiah’s sons were killed in his sight, then he was blinded and, along with thousands of others, taken to Babylon as a captive.
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