St. Aidan’s Personals

These prayers are from Dr. Jordan S. Rubin’s book The Maker’s Diet. They are meant to serve as guidelines for us. Dr. Rubin’s book teaches a holistic approach to health. Prayer & Meditation, Exercise, Music, Pure Food Choices, Cleansing, and Aromatherapy are all incorporated daily in his health experience plan. - JoAnn McCrea

A Morning Prayer for Healing

Father, God, I thank You for creating me in Your image.
I praise You that I am wonderfully and fearfully made.
I confess that You are the God that heals, my Great Physician.
I ask You to heal my body from the top of my head to the soles of my feet.
I pray that You would regenerate every bone, joint, tendon, ligament, tissue, organ and cell of my body.
This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.

An Evening Prayer for Restoration

Father, God, I thank You for sustaining me today.
I thank You that You are made perfect in my weakness.
Your grace is sufficient for me.
I thank You that Your steadfast love never ceases, and Your mercies are new every morning.
You say in Your Word that mourning may come for a night, but the new day will bring gladness.
Bless me with a healing night’s sleep.
Restore unto me the joy of my salvation.
Help me to stay on the path that leads to life.

God’s Will, Not Mine

If you consider an ant’s journey at ground level, its progress seems anything but straight and true. A zig here, a zag there. Up, around, and over. Nearly any obstacle larger than a grain of sand may alter its course. There are distractions – a pool of water, a morsel of food, another insect. And there are critical decisions to be made: should I drop the bacon bit and go back for the Frito? Am I strong enough to carry the entire chip back to the colony by myself? Do I want to spend my life trying? Will my friends make fun of me if I fail? Maybe I should ask for help. Does anyone else even like Fritos?

But from a different vantage point -- perhaps six feet above the ground – we get a more complete and truer perspective on the ant’s journey as it maneuvers through its universe. From this calm and dispassionate overview, its path seems just about a straight line.

As I meander through life making choices, struggling with both daily minutia and what seem in the moment to be life-altering decisions -- zigging here, zagging there – I am constantly seeking those rare moments of transcendent perspective. Because when I am able to step back from the immediate struggle and take a 10,000 foot view of my path, it becomes clear that every decision I have ever wrestled with, whether it turned out good or bad -- everything that happened to me or that I caused to happen -- every inconsequential or monumental event of my life connects perfectly to form a straight line to where I am now. And where I am supposed to be.

- Michael Lansbury

“Personals” is a section of the St. Aidan’s Newsletter featuring personal thoughts, reminiscences, contributions, anecdotes or observations from parishioners. In keeping with the spirit of our alternative distribution system (e-Newsletter), “Personals” is also a virtual section. Meaning, if no one contributes, then there is nothing to read, in which case it does not exist. Please participate, anonymously if you wish.

Submissions to: office@staidanschurch.org

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