Reading & Meditation (Transcendent) by Rev. Christine Emmerling (text)
A Transcendent Treatment (Jeffrey) & Meditation 11/20/2022 Rev. Christine
As this is the Sunday prior to Thanksgiving Day, I’ve selected a poem to read by Elizabeth S. Lamb titled “The Giving of Thanks.”
Oh, let the giving of thanks
Flow out with every breath,
Well up again with every
Beat of your heart’s beating!
So is released the tension,
The bitter burden of discord,
The cruel colors of failure.
Give thanks, give thanks!
There comes, in release,
The melody of forgiveness
and then a deep breath
That heralds rebirth of life.
And there comes a new joy
That flows out into living
In a fresh creativity
That bless and that heals
In ever-widening circles.
Oh, let the giving of thanks
Become your way of life --
Today, tomorrow, for all days
And in a multiplicity of ways.
As our meditation this morning I’ve selected one of my favorites to share by H. B. Jeffrey titled “A Transcendent Treatment.” I invite you to get comfortable, close your eyes, and begin to breathe fully and deeply, and take every word and except for yourself.
Beloved of God – greeting!
In my integrity within me, where I know and see as God, I know
and see you, O Beloved, to be free, wise, immortal!
I see you unfettered and unbound! Triumphant! Glorious!
Splendid!
I see you unburdened of human belief in limitation, unweighted of
matter!
I see you unharassed, unharmed, undiseased, sparkling, buoyant!
I see you staunch! Sturdy! Forceful! Powerful! Divine!
I see your eye lit with fire from on high!
I see your tongue tipped with inborn celestial instinction!
I behold you bright! Joyous! Radiant!
I see you undaunted! Victorious!
I see you spotless! Chaste! Beautiful!
I see you deathless! Abiding! Sempiternal!
I see you flawless! Fearless! Transcending yourself and all your
affairs – uninfluenced! Independent!
I see you smiling! Sound! Sane! Strong!
I see you to be the mighty Son of God, Brother of Jesus Christ,
and Joint-Heir of the Father to the Kingdom!
I see you alive with God and upheld by His free Spirit forever!
All the world sees you as I see you, now and evermore!
Let us move into the silence...
Thank you, Infinite Spirit, for this expanded awareness of life – the I Am that I Am. Amen!
Let us bring our attention back to our breath, our body. You may want to stretch a little. Become fully present in the here and now and open your eyes.