A Light in the Window - A Meditation Journey

written by Gayle B. Colorado

Gayle participated in the free weekly Meditation Classes and shared her experience.  Thank you Gayle!

Ali led us in a mindfulness meditation and then asked us to become aware of our current emotion. Mine was sadness, and tears ran down my face. A feeling of sadness related to feeling cold in this drafty house I live in, and a childhood feeling of being alone and cold. I then saw the tarot card, the 5 of Pentacles.

I saw it in a new way. The tattered woman is cold and barefoot in the snow. But there is a brilliant church window she is walking past. It made me think of spiritual resources that are always available, if we tune into them, align with them, and ask for them. I went on a journey and, as the cold woman, went into the church and experienced the warmth and light. Mother Mary touched my heart as tears ran down her face as well. Ali told us to bring a whole trashcan of that emotion in and I saw that trashcan full of tears evaporating in the warm candle-filled space. Ali also directed us to feel the light of Spirit pouring into us, filling us, surrounding us. Lovely!

Now, I feel bad I did not bring the lame person into the church with me. I'll do another journey and bring that part of myself inside too.

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