Jesus – Ebb Then Flood

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Heal you that is…

Graffiti on a stone wall by the sea in Fife’s East Neuk proclaims the possible healing powers of Christ.

As I have stated here before, I am no theologian, so cannot affirm the truth of the painted statement, or otherwise.

But I do know that the sea has magical healing effects.

Not just in the salt and minerals in the sea that assist with wounds (I once had cause to wash out a bleeding wound after been nastily bitten on the leg by a dog on a beach).

It is in the constant nature and rhythm of the ocean tides , the freshness of the salt air’s tang and the might and power of the waves.

For it has been my comforter as long as I can remember, the magnetic thing that draws me to itself without effort.

No day is worse for gazing upon a marine expanse, no mood so forlorn that it is not uplifted.

There is no logical explanation, so in that I sense am in the same proverbial boat as the Christians!

“Blessed are the pure in heart” reads the inscription on this grave in a cemetery close to where I live. Great words, and maybe they befitted the deceased.

If memory serves me correctly, the words are those of Jesus ,from the Sermon on the Mount.

You can cast doubt on religion, but not those words.

When we and our motives are pure – and it may not be much of the time (in my case anyway!) -things, blessings, flow, on and through us ,upon the world around us.

You don’t have to be the Dalai Lama or Mother Theresa – anyone can know those small moments of purity when you do the right thing for the right reasons or are the right person in the right place at the right time.

Purity.

Simple but elusive and fleeting.

You can’t seek it, any more than you can blessings.

But when a moment or someone is pure you just know.

And are blessed.

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