Be silent.
Be still.
Wait before your God.
Say nothing.
Ask nothing.
Be still.
Let your God look upon you.
That is all.
God knows.
God understands.
God loves you with an enormous love.
God only wants to look upon you with love.
Quiet.
Still.
Be.
Let your God love you.
This meditation creates the very stillness it speaks about I think, and it is especially lovely when it is read slowly and thoughtfully. It would be easy to carry it around in your head or on a small piece of paper just to have it when it is needed.
I just recently re-read the book called *"The Shack", which I understand was a very popular book a few years ago. One of the phrases that 'God' uses in the book is to say ' I am especially fond of x' . The hero of the story finds that difficult because it implies that God has favourites. But it turned out that God was especially fond of everyone! I was reminded of this by the phrases in Edwina Gately's meditation which say that 'God loves you with an enormous love. God only wants to look upon you with love'.
I think many of us have been brought up to think differently of our God but I am absolutely certain that the author of The Shack and Edwina Gately are absolutely right.
*This version of A Julian Contemplation by Edwina Gately is in Something Understood, An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, Hodder Stoughton/BBC ,2002.
*Wm. P. Young, The Shack, Hodder UK, 2007
1 comment:
I like the idea that we are worthwhile just because we are, not because we have to prove ourselves. I also like that Gately's poem is shaped like a tree, which is also still and peaceful.
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