SL01 - 10 - Fearfully and Wonderfully Created

I am late publishing this week's podcast due to self made busy-ness the holiday season sometimes brings.  I try to publish this podcast once every two weeks on Friday evening.  I hope that your holiday season is off to a great start with lots of fun and joyful celebrations with friends and family and are embarking on closing out 2018 with renewed energy, hope, joy and excitement.   It seems like not a day goes by that the broadcast news does not present us with a story about the actions or words of our political leaders, the lenient or harsh decisions in our judicial system, the deplorable actions of some individual presented in such a way to incite our reactions of judgement, fear, anger, resentment.   We can sometimes lose touch with the fact that we were created for something greater.  Reacting in anger, in judgment, in resentment is not what God created us for.    I thought today we'd do an imaginal prayer exercise that helps us focus on and be grounded in the fact that the spark of the Divine exists within each of us and that we are all wonderfully and fearfully created, even those whose actions and opinions and views are so radically different than ours and whose actions are so caustic to human decency and society.   This episode's imaginal prayer exercise will take portions of Psalm 139 as our visioning source to familiarize ourselves with and illuminate our imagining with the fact that we ourselves and all people are wonderfully and fearfully made.   This imaginal prayer exercise can easily be prayed in the first person for ourselves, helping us be grounded in being the Light we seek in the world.  It can also be prayed in the first person with the intention being for those whose actions lack Light, lack hope, lack joy to also come to know that spark of the Divine light within them and that they too may be that Light, so desperately needed in the cosmos.  May it help us and those we pray it for reflect the Divine Light of hope, love and peace into the cosmos.   Before starting, quiet down your mind and get comfortable in a chair or laying down and determine the intention of your imaginal prayer exercise — are you praying for greater clarity of the awareness of your own fearful and wonderfully made creation or for the intention that someone else may come to know their fearful and wonderful creation?  If for someone else, picture them in your mind's eye and hold them in light, love and prayer as we begin our imaginal prayer exercise.