In this time of social isolation,
It is particularly important for us to be connected,
Especially in spiritual ways with God and our guides and with others,
And at a time where we're not being touched,
To be able to be touched in the spiritual realm,
Which is actually a greater and more vibrant realm than even the physical realm.
So this meditation is focused on letting God hold us in divine,
Human and material loving space.
And it says we learn to receive that we can be filled up to give.
And so this is about us receiving.
So we begin as usual by breathing.
Some recommend we begin by focusing on our breath,
Coming in our nostrils,
Or the space in front of our nose,
And do whatever works in helping you center as we begin to breathe and to go inside of ourselves as an anchor.
And now move on into your heart space if you're not already there.
You may want to tap from your head on down to your heart to get there.
You may want to put your hands and your arms over your chest.
You may want to think of someone you love.
But just move down into the heart space and rest there and be there.
And as the radiant love that's always there deep within your heart begins to flow,
Let it flow all around you,
Let it wrap around you and envelop you in loving space.
This love has no agenda,
No judgment,
No attempt to fix us,
Just acceptance and love without conditions.
So just let it surround you and hug you.
You may see it as a bathtub filling up with love and you just sink down into it.
Now we move on up to our head space.
Just rest in the cleared stillness there.
And as you rest,
Let whatever images of being held might come into your mind,
Whatever images arise.
Tuck them and pay attention to them as ones that you're meant to see and hold and let hold you.
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And whenever you are ready,
Slowly drop down to your heart and then on down to your spiritual womb,
Your horror or your abdomen,
Your gut.
Here is where we are held in the image and likeness of God that is always being created in us.
Let that divine reality hold you in its creative possibilities.
We are being created even right this moment in the likeness and image of God,
Deep in our womb space.
You may want to put your hands on your abdomen.
Just be sensitive to any sensations or intuitions or instincts that arise as you let yourself be held in God's divine creative work within you,
As you feel yourself enveloped in the warmth of the divine womb.
Let that divine reality hold you in its creative possibilities.
Let that divine reality hold you in its creative possibilities.
And now we move on down to our feet.
Wiggle your toes or stamp your feet if it helps pull your attention down there.
And as your consciousness is in your feet,
See roots growing out of your feet,
Reaching deep down into the earth.
Let earth energy come up through these roots into your feet and legs.
That has the energy of the material cosmos in it and let it soak into your body.
We are right now for this time,
Embodied spiritual beings.
So gratefully let your body surround you and hold you and comfort you.
Let yourself rest and anchor in the earth.
Let the earth hold you,
Ground you.
It's a solid place to lay down at night,
To sit as probably you are now and to stand on that holds you up.
Let material reality hold you in its anchoring loving arms while you are free to explore other realms.
Let yourself be loved and enveloped by physical reality as God loves you through material reality.
And finally,
We move back up into our heart space.
Let that deep love in your heart that's always there,
Has always been there and will always be there.
Radiate on out,
Wrapping you up in love.
And now if you would and can become aware of your spiritual guide or guides,
Those divine presences around you that are given to us as guides,
Companions,
Angels,
Messengers,
Friends in the spiritual world to encourage and strengthen and comfort us.
Let your guide,
Whether you know their name or recognize them or not,
Let them look at you and look back.
This is a loving gaze that has no demands or judgment,
But only unconditional love.
They are there to love us.
They have no agenda to fix us or changes,
Only to hold us in loving space.
Let them move next to you.
Let her or him or them wrap their arms around you and hold you in healing love and wisdom.
They love being with you and next to you and holding you.
And as you're in their arms,
You can relax.
You can let all the cares and worries to this time just melt away.
Let them absorb all the worries and the cares and the anxieties.
Let them hold you in love.
Love casts that all fear.
They hold you in loving space.
Like the words of the hymn,
For all the saints who from their labors rest.
Rest from your labors right now.
Now,
If you want to,
You can even move out beyond those guides and those who care for you from the spiritual realm that are right around you.
Move on out to what Hebrews calls the cloud of witnesses.
There's this vast realm of witnesses from all eternity that are there to be our cheerleaders and encourage us.
Let that awareness rest in you,
That we are a part of something vast,
Something loving,
Something caring.
And as we finish,
Carry with you after this time out into your day,
Into the activities,
To whatever you do,
Into your rest at night.
Carry with you this sense of being held in loving space.
Hold in loving space by God's reality in divine,
Human and physical material reality,
All holding you closely and loving you.
Amen.
