Welcome to this ICN Eastertide meditation.
In this 10-minute practice,
We create a chrysalis of stillness and quietude in which we open ourselves to being divinely recreated in darkness.
We practice together this releasing and allowing the dissolving of what is no longer and rest in the unknowing and unknown.
There will be invitation with the breath.
Reflections offered.
And times of silence.
To support your practice,
You may want to darken the room.
Even cover your head with a blanket.
Or simply close your eyes.
Allow and invite yourself,
All of you.
To be here now.
A focus on the exhale will help deepen and darken your experience.
You can slowly attune to the breath leaving your body with each exhale.
It could be that envisioning a cavern,
A tomb,
The inside of a chrysalis,
Can support you.
With your exhale,
You may want to simply blow out the breath as you release.
Perhaps yawn widely.
Intentionally.
Continue to exhale.
And deepen.
It can be in dark stillness.
In a sort of mystical chrysalis-ness.
That our spiritual DNA reforms us.
A new order,
A new structure emerges.
A newness we cannot anticipate.
With the exhale,
Simply release.
Blow out slowly.
Where ya at?
Deepening,
Almost darkening as we go.
On the evening of that first day of the week when the disciples were together.
With the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders.
Jesus came and stood among them and said,
Peace be with you.
With the exhale,
Simply release.
Blow out slowly.
Or yawn.
Deepening,
Almost darkening as we go.
From Matthew 6,
Enter your closet and lock the door.
Or an Aramaic.
An inner chamber.
Or here.
Christmas.
With the exhale,
Simply release.
Blow out slowly or yawn.
Deepening.
Almost darkening as we go.
Within the spiritual chrysalis we are transformed more fully into the imago de for in the dark stillness,
When we are powerless,
When we can't remake ourselves.
When we are no more.
That have power infinitely beyond us.
And intimately within us.
Quietly effortlessly.
Graciously.
Restructures us.
To more perfectly but never completely reflect and radiate the divine life.
With the exhale,
Simply release,
Blow out slowly,
Or yawn.
We practice together this releasing and allowing the dissolving of what is no longer and rest in the unknowing.
And unknown.
As we prepare to end this meditation and move into our day or deeper still into our night,
We can notice any changes in our body.
We can thank our breath.
For its support in living into new life and allowing the release of what is no longer needed.
Amen.
And Amen.
Thank you.
For being.
Here.
Now.
