Meditation Moment in Easter Week ~ Wednesday ‘23

Acts 3:1-10

   One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon.  And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those entering the temple. When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them for alms. Peter looked intently at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.”  And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.  Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have I give you; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk.” And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong. Jumping up, he stood and began to walk, and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. All the people saw him walking and praising God,  and they recognized him as the one who used to sit and ask for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and astonishment at what had happened to him.

   Jesus, our Christ ~ as Peter, John, and the other Apostles began to discover and accept the gifts given them by You through the Holy Spirit, help us to discover and accept and use the gifts we each have from You. Few if any of us would believe that we could heal someone physically without the gift of an education for becoming a medical doctor or nurse. But a simple hello, a smile, or asking a person if we may say a prayer with them at their bedside when they are ill, remembering to say a simple blessing over our food before eating even if alone, done in Your name whether out loud or silently, are gifts we can use in any moment of life without a formal education. I know, yet must regularly remember, that gifts given, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, are gifts received. 

    Guide us, O Lord of us all, to stop at the top and bottom of each hour, to consciously breathe in Your Presence that is always available to fill our minds, our hearts, and our souls. As we then breathe out, let us send Your Grace to fill the world around us, to bless all we meet and pass by, to the neighbors just beyond our windows and to those beyond our reach. May each breath remind us of You as we give the gift of Your healing love, more by how we live our lives than by the words that we speak. amen. 

~Take a moment today to read the fairly short chapter of 1 Corinthians 12 to know again the Gifts of the Spirit given to us.  

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