Journal of Sacred Work

Today's meditation was written by Cathy Self, Senior Vice President for the Baptist Healing Trust.    

      Emerging from shamanic traditions, Heart Laws articulate basic premises about our nature and being including the idea that life chooses life. The headlines of this week have been filled with what seems to be evidence to the contrary: life-destroying violence, anguish and bitterness, spoken and unspoken unmet needs. I'm told that the idea that life chooses life emerges from our inner beings who long for a sacred stillness - a stillness set apart from the ordinary. Finding our way into that stillness is not without its challenges. Habits of the mind and voices that surround us push us to ignore that inner hunger for stillness and quiet. The clutter of the day forces its way into the inner crevices of our lives, uninvited and, to the soul, unwelcomed.

     The need to do often outdistances our need to be. To be still, to be quiet, to be present to what is – to know the sweetness of what only we can truly know within the heart, the soul, the spirit. Today's meditation invites you into that still and quiet space, that sacred space that your heart and soul long for, and for this moment's pause not to be filled with words or thoughts, but simply a space, a place in time. Your heart will tell you what you most need to hear, Love will sing your song. Rest. Be. Enjoy.