Since June 27, and for seven weeks, my open heart surgery rendered me helpless.
Helplessness is different for everyone, but it usually comes with the realization that our temporal misuse and attachments are not just controlling us — they are destroying us. The last several weeks forced me to be still and taught me to let go, it helped me to truly go inward.
Although my ministry is a personal journey in search of truth, of which those close and dear to me know, I discovered I had a disconnect from it. My predicament, my humanity, revealed my holding on to grief, pain, helplessness, and trauma.
We don’t have to accept that what’s happening is okay. It is sitting still in reality, it is sitting still with what is, it is yielding to WHO IS.
For Jesus, there is no animosity between body and soul. Jesus, in whom “the Word became flesh” (John 1:14), was fully human, even as he was fully divine, with both body and spirit operating as one.
In the Apostles’ Creed, we say, “I believe in the resurrection of the body.” We profess that human embodiment has an eternal character to it. (1 Corinthians 15)
2 Corinthians 3:18 “So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.”
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