Meditating to Heal

I don’t know about you, but when something good happens to me, I can’t wait to call my friends and relatives to share the good news. Sometimes, the news is so good, we get together to have a celebratory dinner at home or a nearby restaurant. We all love to share news when it’s good news. But sometimes that news is very bad news, or sometimes tragic news, we also share this with relatives and maybe a very close, longtime friend. Regardless of the case, good or bad, when news comes our way, we have the need to share it with others. It is our way. We as humans have the need to share our good fortunes and our not so good fortunes with those we love. God made us this way. The God of Love made us this way. Aren’t we blessed!

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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Sometimes I feel lost; sometimes I feel low on life. I find that after eleven years of college at night and many letters after my name, my emotions are not so clear anymore when it comes to life. I need to take a walk in the light of day to hear the children laughing as they play some silly little game that we as adults could never understand. Just their high squealing and giggling has an effect on me, raising my emotions and feelings to a better place. Aren’t we blessed that God is so gracious to us to give us the beauty of the light from the Sun and the laughter of children remind us of the beauty of a not so normal day.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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In our daily meditations
we should add one thing,
start a prayer journal.
Write a prayer to someone
or write a prayer to God.
Do this with love
for God knows
our inner thoughts and cares
and in our prayers
we bring God closer to us
and to those we love.
D’not be shy.
God Loves us; and
God gives us the
words for our prayers.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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When you embrace grace, you embrace God’s love, including all people who are Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, humanist, and atheist, pagan, including the hidden humanity of those Christians who beg your patience for one more second who have long forgotten the civility and patience of Jesus. When you embrace grace, you embrace the person with leprosy, the unwashed homeless person begging for help on the median of the busy highway, and the lady pushing the shopping cart stacked high with a life full of memories being her only form of existence. Grace is doing for the forgotten what the government and the fancy churches have ignored.
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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Oh dreamer, lost in your own world,
what is it that you seek?

You call on Elijah
and others of God’s prophets.
You go to the mountaintop
standing –
waiting –
looking for the guidance that only
God can give,
praying that God will hear;
praying that God will speak.
You offer yourself for 20 or 30
Pieces of silver,
looking –
waiting –
listening.
You leave the mountaintop
disappointed –
angry –
disgusted.
You know not where to look.
Oh, ye of little faith –
Look within you,
where God forever abides.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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I read the Bible. . . diligently. I read the Old Testament and the New Testament. I read the English translation of the Quran. All three are wonderful testament to God. All mention how God blesses man. But then something strange happens. The Old Testament god is YHWH, the God of Israel; the New Testament has the Trinity God (God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit), and Allah is the god of Islam. All pray to “our” God. Are we making God too small? Is not God one God. Can we agree that we merely have a different name for him? Let us not make God small. God loves us all!
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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Ripples may be on the horizon
I know not when!
Am I prepared for rough water
In my little boat?
For I have but one power oar,
when I set out on my boat with
quiet water on a windless day.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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I don’t have any special knowledge, nor do I have and special insight into what God’s plans are for us in the immediate future. What I do have is patience. Over my eighty-one years God has allowed me to accumulate enough patience to calm my nervousness about the future and await what comes around the corner. It is usually not as bad as expected nor as good as hoped. God has always surprised me with the Love and Kindness I have received. So, my comment in this time of wonder, let us all calm down. We have a Loving coach on our sideline.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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At this time, as we get closer to Christmas, people ask me if I have faith. What they really are asking is what faith or religion I am. Faith, for me, is how you help others freely and open your heart to receive help in return when needed. Faith is giving love and then receiving love, regardless of who is needing or offering. Faith is the most active verb of love that I know .

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

If you are inspired, read my latest book.