Daily Devotion - Friday, February 4

Struggles of the Soul

“Be still, and know that I am God!”
--From an ancient song
(Psalm 46: 10)

A saying to consider:
“The Tree of Life was impregnated with forces so
harmonious and beneficial that its leaves healed
every illness and its fruits bestowed eternal life.”
--Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

As we come to the end of a week I want to end our devotional reflections by giving you a “struggle of the soul” to think about during the weekend.

“To heal something or someone is to ‘make it whole’ as indicated by the common root for the words ‘heal’ and ‘whole’. To bring wholeness to something is to complement discord with harmony and pain with wisdom, not to replace or somehow overcome the discord and pain. To be whole does not mean to be perfect in any way; instead it means to include everything. To heal, therefore, is to bring together the component parts of any system – be it a human, animal, plant or ‘inanimate’ system – in an including rather than excluding way. When we do this we bring about true healing rather than just the kind of ‘healing’ which is concerned with fixing pain, disguising discord or in some way treating the symptom rather than the cause.” (The Elements of The Qabalah, Will Parfitt, p. 101)

So a possible question of the weekend might be: Am I willing to be a participant in the healing of self and others?

Have a meaningful weekend whether you are cheering for the Packers or the Steelers!

--Ben Keckler
02.04.11