Tag Archives: Healing

Stream Of Consciousness At the Vicarage

Posted on by under Pastor Wrinkles

One of the things I have missed about the blogging community is the group challenges. I used to participate in a lot of weekly challenges. I discovered that it helped me grow as a writer and as a person. So, as I come back to the blogosphere by bits and pieces I am going to try to join at least one challenge a week. This week’s challenge is called, STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS SATURDAY HOSTED BY LINDA G HILL. When you have finished here click the link and check out Linda’s other subscribers.

Linda has given us this to work with this week. Your prompt for #JusJoJan the 27th and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “make the call.” Use it as an idiom or use it literally. Have fun!

I get a lot of calls every week: family, parishioners, robocalls calls, ministry connections. I get even more e-mails (ugg my inbox ). But I think the most important call I get or make daily is the call to prayer.

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

We used to sing a song in church way back in the 1980’s entitled, JESUS ON THE MAINLINE. Here are the lyrics.

Jesus on the mainline, tell Him what you want.
Jesus on the mainline, tell Him what you want.
Jesus on the mainline, tell Him what you want,
Just call Him up and tell Him what you want.

2 If you want your body healed, tell Him what you want.
If you want your body healed, tell Him what you want.
If you want your body healed, tell Him what you want,
Just call Him up and tell Him what you want.

3 If you want your soul revived, tell Him what you want.
If you want your soul revived, tell Him what you want.
If you want your soul revived, tell Him what you want,
Just call Him up and tell Him what you want.

4 Call Him up, call Him up, tell Him what you want.
Call Him up, call Him up, tell Him what you want.
Call Him up, call Him up, tell Him what you want,
Just call Him up and tell Him what you want.

But the call of prayer is more than just telling Jesus what I want. The older I get the more I understand that the call of prayer is a call to LISTEN.

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com

These days I have to admit I mostly don’t know what to pray for. It seems, everything has gotten so complicated. Half the time feel like the things I am asking for are far less than what God wants; so these days I find myself sitting in the prayer space and listening for the voice of God until I get some inspiration about how and what to pray.

IF YOU PRAY WHAT DOES PRAYER LOOK LIKE FOR YOU?

Jesus, the Light In Our Darkness

Posted on by under Pastor Wrinkles

The sunset over Galway

I came into work this morning and found this letter of encouragement in my mailbox. I share it with you (by permission) in hopes that it may bring some light into any darkness you currently walk in:

Jesus Is the Light In Our Darkness

by Dale Stevens

When we are living in darkness we don’t always know we are in darkness. Sometimes the darkness we live in is just a normal way of life for us. Now, normal is whatever we are used to. Growing up the patterns that we see  from our parents and all those living around us become our patterns, some good, some bad. These patterns we have learned can cause us great pain: hurt, feelings of loneliness, low self-esteem, despair, depression, discouragement, unbelief, fear, anxiety, and hopelessness.

Sometimes we become withdrawn. We look around us at others and see them happy and joyful, family and friends having fun and getting along together, and we have a desire to have a life like that. Yet sometimes it feels like we are walking in a cloud. The desire is to step out of that cloud and walk into the light of peace and joy; But the darkness is so thick it totally surround us.

BUT WAIT! THERE IS GOOD NEWS.

The Bible says that, Jesus is the light of the world.

The word light means: daytime, brightness, illumination and exposure to the truth

Psalm 1390: 11,12 “Darkness will not be dark to you (anymore). For darkness is as light to you!”

It may take a while to walk through, but remember Jesus is the light. Sometimes He shines as if coming through the fog, but as the fog lifts the Light gets brighter and brighter. And so it is with the healing process. It is step by step!