Soul

Session Six 

Leader:  Lord Jesus we believe that you are present with us now that you as we gather in your name. We ask that you guide everything we do and say with your light and love.  Now follow these instructions closely and in silence:

Close your eyes and relax yourself completely. Begin with your face muscles (pause), shoulders (pause), arms and torso (pause), legs and feet (pause).

If you still feel any tenseness anywhere, relax it.

Now I am going to read a brief passage. Try to see, feel, hear, smell, taste everything that is described (pause and then read reflectively):

We had spent several weeks in southern Spain, at the hottest time of the year.  Every morning my young son went to the balcony of our hotel to see what kind of day it would be, and every day it was the same--inexhaustibly sunny=untile one morning I heard a whoop of joy and the exultant words, "Hurray! It's reaining!"

Glorious to see the dusty streets and rooftops running with rain!

Delightful to breathe the cleansed air, to smell the wet earth!

Through the whole of that sreaming day, Longfellow's poem sang in my mind:  "How beautiful in the rain! After the dust and heat, In the broad snd fiery street, In the narrow land, How beautiful is the rain!" (pause.) Elizebyth Starr Hill "Hurray! It's Raining!"

Now imagine you are lying on a deserted beach. It has been torridly hot all day. Suddenly a cloud appears, then a breeze, and then drops of resreshing rain. (pause)

See the raindrops fall on the lake, forming millions of tiny little ringlets. 

(30-second pause.)

Listen to the rain falling on the lake, the beach, and on metal objects on or near the beach. 

(30-second pause)

Feel the rain fall on your body, soothing it, running down you shoulders, arms, and face. 

(30-second pause)

Taste the rain as it falls on your parched lips and trickles across them. 

(30-second pause)

Now, for the next 3 or 5 minutes, just lie there, enjoying the rain with all of your 5 senses. 

(Silent Period)

Mark Link, SJ

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October 19 2013
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