Dear Friends,

We pray you are safe and well. In the spirit of our philosophy of co-creating community and our awareness that the Spirit speaks through each of us, we invite you to share your meditations with us as well. We truly believe that in God’s economy of abundance, when we share our blessings, our thoughts, our feelings, we are all made richer. 

We hope and pray that you and your loved ones experience genuine peace of mind and heart, and remain in good health during this challenging time. 

Loving blessings,

Jean & Ron

Meditation Ten: “You Are the Air We Breathe In” and “Rest in My Love”

These challenging days afford us quiet time. Sometimes in my (Ron) quiet time I sit in meditation attuned to my breath. Breathing in and breathing out. John Philip Newell retaught us this breathing meditation—in some ways it is very similar to the Centering Prayer meditation we have been doing over the years. I have been using two mantras: “You are the air we breathe in” and “Rest in My Love.”

As I did breathing meditation today with the mantra “You are the air we breathe in,” it struck me how appropriate it is for these days. I remembered the coronavirus victims who struggle to breathe, some on ventilators, some not; some recovering, some not. I remembered their families, some able to be present, some not. I remembered the health care workers, our new heroes and heroines, who show up faithfully to take care of others at the risk of their own health and that of their own families.       I breathed out blessings to all of them. There is a law of conservation of energy in the spiritual realm, too, and the care and blessings we breathe out, ripple out unrelentingly to those in need.

In another part of my breathing meditation, I used the mantra “Rest in My Love” and it struck me how fitting that is as well in these days: God inviting us to Rest in God’s Love…Rest in each other’s love…we so need that, too: to rest peacefully, centering-ly, trustingly in the loving embrace of our God who is always there for each of us…seeing us through, saying, “We will all get through this together.”