Showing posts with label prayer and fasting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayer and fasting. Show all posts

Friday, April 23, 2010

Beautiful Promises of Healing


Before more meal pictures and recipes, I want to share these two verses with anyone who might be having a hard day (as yesterday was here) and extra-specially for parents of people with autism. We are not alone, ever. Our help is ever-present. As parents most of us have certainly felt we needed help, where humanly there seemed to be none. And yet, look below. The Love of God is always present. If we're here, so is Love.

Just look at the rose above, resting gently on the hydrangea. You are more beautiful to Love than even that rose, and so cherished.

Isaiah 41:17 "The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none, And their tongue is parched with thirst; I, the LORD, will answer them Myself, As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour out water on the thirsty land And streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring And My blessing on your descendants;

p.s. I inadvertently added myself as a follower, and can't seem to get it off, so if anyone has any suggestions, please email me or post here. I will get the hang of this!

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Fed by prayer and fasting.



This fast has already brought forth some gifts, and I thought I would share one that just happened a few minutes ago. A new and dear friend just commented on the Bible passage "The King's Daughter is all glorious within." I love those words, and went to look up some other translations of them, and found the New King James which says: "The Royal Daughter is all glorious within the palace" the italics indicating that the words were not in the original language.

At first I went to dismiss them, and then Guidance said: "No. Listen. You are all glorious as long as You stay within the palace! And what is the palace but the Consciousness of God, the mind keeping itself constantly with its Divinity.

"This is when One is glorious; the passage is used superficially if You see it only in terms of health, clean within. It is where your thought is placed that heals, bringing forth the fact that You are, indeed, glorious. And not just You, but "All are glorious. This is what has healed Sarah in the past, and it is what will heal her now.

"Hold to what I said to You last night about My saying that "this kind comes forth only by prayer and fasting." You had assumed that the fasting intensified the efficacy of the prayer. No. As You fast, your consciousness is changed, and that new view is what heals.

"As usual, self-discipline of consciousness is the healer. Allow Me to "walk the rounds with You".* We will do this together. A mother (or father) is the most potent healer on the globe, if they will hold their thought "in the palace" with and for their child."

*From a poem and hymn by Whittier: "The Healer from Gennessaret will walk the rounds with You. "You are not doing this alone. I am always with You."

AVO-GOBI RAW CURRY (memory of our former favorite Indian food: alu gobi, potatoes and cauliflower)(east directions for growing lentil sprouts below)




Zucchini, medium, shredded
Spring Mix
Cauliflower*
Lentil sprouts*
Curry Powder*, Frontier
Ginger*, Shredded
Garlic*, thinly sliced, paper thin
Super light sprouts, from the Sproutman
Avocado
Rejuvelac

LENTIL SPROUTS

I use ball canning jars

Fill a quart jar about 1/4 full with dried lentils
(You may use the brown, which are called green, or the little French green lentils, which are really green. The latter are less starchy.)

Add filtered or distilled or spring water about twice as much as the lentils. Let sit several hours till they look larger and fatter. Drain off water using an old clean stocking, cheesecloth, a screen, or your clean hand, letting the water drip through your fingers. Let the jar sit in a warm place and the sprouts will grow. You can cover, using cheesecloth, stocking, clear paper towel, and a rubber band to hold it on, and lay jar on its side, rolling it every so often, as the top one sprout faster.

You can water a little and drain well, or just drain off the little water that always stays in the jar. They shouldn't be wet. That's it. Eat when You see them sprouting. Mungs are sprouted the same way.