Conversations with God 255, the Lord's invitation on a morning of clear energy
On September 6, 2019, when I had no strength and was spending 20 hours a day asleep, I woke at dawn, listened to the words of the Mass and wrote my 255th conversation with God. I take it out again today.
1. The invitation of the Word
Christ Jesus is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of all creation.
For in him all things were created.
(Colossians 1:15-16)
Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth.
Serve the Lord with gladness.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving.
(Psalm 100)
The Lord says:
I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will have the light of life.
(cf. John 8:12)
2. New wine into fresh wineskins
"The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, but yours eat and drink."
"Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?
No one pours new wine into old wineskins.
New wine must be poured into fresh wineskins."
(Luke 5:33-39)
3. Today's meditation
When we get angry, our heartbeat quickens and our blood pressure rises. They say the body increases cholesterol to protect the blood vessels. To be healthy in body, we must become people who are slow to anger.
Fasting is good, so why did the Pharisees get angry at others? Because they had not yet become vessels able to receive that commandment.
To keep the Lord's commandments, we must become new wineskins able to bear any excitement or anger.
A person who has become a new wineskin for the new commandment keeps all the commandments and is happy in that alone. (From a meditation by Father Joseph Jeon Sam-yong)
4. 3:50 a.m., preparing a special lecture
Awake at 3:50 a.m., I prepare a special lecture on food expression happiness coaching.
Yesterday an officer of the Nonsan District Office of Education asked me for a food expression humanities lecture, and this morning it comes to mind.
The PuNolChi Mind Journey, using Food Expressive Arts Therapy
When we play with food expression,
the joy of healing comes~
Recalling the food expression happiness coaching lecture I gave at the Badada Café in Jeju, I prepare my heart.
Reading today again through Trend Korea 2027
"Trend Korea 2027" talks about the "form factor shift," creating something new by changing the form while keeping the function.
Just as new wine is poured into new wineskins, food expression is always poured into new vessels. Therapy in the counseling room becomes a humanities lecture, becomes a mind journey in a café, and the heart-play of a single plate of home cooking becomes a healing art of life.
The essence stays the same: the love and healing within us.
What new wineskin are you preparing today?
Healing Santa Kim Ji-yu
This story was first posted in the Conversations with God spiritual coaching of the healing space Haengbok Yeolgi cafe.