Summer has arrived in our neck of the woods. Bright sun. High temperatures and right now I’m looking at blue skies and a bit of wind – with promises of temperatures – in the shade – of 90 it will be closer to 100 in her garden.

It won’t be long before we have fresh vegetables from the garden to go along with our barbecuing the meat from Ken’s cow.

It is been a busy week as we have visited several different medical professionals and enriched the coffers of MCMC.

I am told our healing process is going fine, yes it is slow, but still I am making progress and that is the important thing.

I have my bottom plate back and to celebrate we are having barbecued steak for dinner - I can already taste it.

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Psalm 119:96-98  “ Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.

⁷⁸ Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

⁷⁹ Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.”  KJV

Meditation, I remember back in the 60s and early 70s when the “new age” brought all kinds of exciting changes; one of which was meditation.

Without trying to go into great detail, basically meditation was described as opening one’s mind to the universe. Becoming one with nature.

There were slight benefits and actually some of the side benefits were beneficial relaxation, being able to control oneself in situations that were trying but, it took God out of the equation of man’s thought process.

I can recall meditation was roundly and soundly condemned in our churches as being a substitution for God and glorification of what was considered universal energy. The idea was to become one of the universe.

What I found interesting however was I don’t recall one sermon or teachings on the biblical form of meditation.

Several years ago several years ago as I was studying the word of God came upon the word meditation.  Meditation for God’s people is focusing our mind on God, focusing our minds on His truths and promises in his Word.

As we contemplate, meditate, and asking the Holy Spirit to guide us, we develop a closer relationship with him.

The benefit to us is relaxation and as we apply His truths to our life, to our daily activities we find a piece, we find comfort, we find the strength that is not within but it is a melding of our soul and are being with Him.

Our strength comes from God and the beauty of that is when you understand that we are alone are incapable of true peace, true strength, and to power that comes from trusting in Him, trusting in His word.

The term new age has gone by the wayside, you rarely hear the term new age in this day and age. But some of the techniques that take us away from God, the trying teach us that there is an energy field for our spirit that is not controlled by God still exist and taught in today’s world.

Meditation like most things in this world is neutral as far as terminology is concerned. It is what one does with it, how a person applies meditation to their lives that makes a difference.

Are we trying to put ourselves in an altered state of consciousness for our own sake, or we trying to be in tune with the Holy Spirit allowing Him to guide our lives?

but I will meditate in thy precepts.

Lord, I am so thankful that we can grow closer to You, that we can become more in tune with your Spirit as we go about our daily lives.  We are not alone, but have your presence with us for eternity.

Later, Art (-: