Saturday, January 24, 2009

knee surgery

Video of what they did do my knee
http://video.about.com/sportsmedicine/Medial-Meniscus-Injury.htm

it is so amazing that this procedure was done to me yesterday, and today it is pain free.
we so often complain about medical care, but i am truly grateful that there is a service, free to me, that is so brilliant!
thinking back 100 years, i would have been 'crippled' by this injury for the rest of my life.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Spiritual Practices

Here are some on-line helps to spiritual practice that i am using at the moment:

listening to daily bible readings

listening to a 'daily office' or short service called "pray-as-you-go" its like a cross between radio 4's daily service and an 'everyday with jesus' type thing. there are other useful stuff here as well, like an evening meditation based on ignatian practice

one i am experimenting with is an online personal and collective bible study where you an add your reflections/insights on a bible passage and see what others are saying. could be good if a group of us decided to study a book/passage together. Let me know if you want to do this and i will invite you in. my online name is 'treforW'

one i havent found yet, or at least not a satisfactory one is a proper audio 'daily office' where set prayers and readings are read out daily. there are plenty of text ones, the best being the Northumbria Community, which is based on celtic spirituality. but i want one that is audio.

a final one worth metioning is sacred space which takes you through a 'led' meditation. needs some time though, to really benefit.

hope something here helps, and let me know if there is anything that you have found useful