Guided Meditations
This is an example of a guided meditation on compassion that I used at a staff devotion.
There is an apt verse from the OT book of Lamentations that says; Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassion never fails. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Let’s tune into the compassion of God now as we meditate on this value of our college this thread for the week….
We close our eyes now, sit with straight backs, take a deep breath, and as we exhale relax our bodies from our shoulders down…
Bring to mind someone you know who is in need of God’s compassion. Someone who might be sick, seriously ill, suffering in some way, in pain, or grief or loss.
As you think of this person imagine that they are wrapped in the arms of Christ. Embraced by God, relieved of their suffering, or some of it by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Place them in the presence of God and give them to the one who is truly compassionate to all people, the one who’s heart is full of compassion. Place that person in God’s care…..
(A period of silence)
We come back to the present moment now with this promise from the second letter to the Corinthian church; Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)
And we conclude with a prayer from the Spanish nun of the Counter Reformation period, St Teresa of Avila;
Christ has no body on earth but ours, no hands but ours, no feet but ours, ours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion for the world is to look out; ours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good; and ours are the hands with which He is to bless. Amen.
There is an apt verse from the OT book of Lamentations that says; Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassion never fails. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Let’s tune into the compassion of God now as we meditate on this value of our college this thread for the week….
We close our eyes now, sit with straight backs, take a deep breath, and as we exhale relax our bodies from our shoulders down…
Bring to mind someone you know who is in need of God’s compassion. Someone who might be sick, seriously ill, suffering in some way, in pain, or grief or loss.
As you think of this person imagine that they are wrapped in the arms of Christ. Embraced by God, relieved of their suffering, or some of it by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Place them in the presence of God and give them to the one who is truly compassionate to all people, the one who’s heart is full of compassion. Place that person in God’s care…..
(A period of silence)
We come back to the present moment now with this promise from the second letter to the Corinthian church; Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)
And we conclude with a prayer from the Spanish nun of the Counter Reformation period, St Teresa of Avila;
Christ has no body on earth but ours, no hands but ours, no feet but ours, ours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion for the world is to look out; ours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good; and ours are the hands with which He is to bless. Amen.
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