One of the strongest anaesthetics available without prescription is the TV. We all know the benefits of an hour's 'switch off' time with a favourite TV programme. Yet how many of us spend evenings watching actors live their TV lives while our own lives remain unlived? Life with all its real and raw pain and pleasure is for living. How much time do we spend living it?

Real life presents us with a bewildering range of ups and downs and invites us to be . . . real: to be fully alive to what bothers us . . .and fully aware of what makes us laugh. The alternative? An experience akin to a dentist's injection: our pain is numbed - by another drink, a new handbag, a new relationship - but our capacity to enjoy, to taste life, is also affected.

Our invitation today is to join with Zephaniah's "Rejoice with all your heart, God is in your midst". We are asked to taste life with all its sadness and laughter and to bring our real-life experience to the God who gives the gift of life and who is with us, accepting, loving and supporting us in good times and in bad. No need for anaesthetic, just honesty.


Think - Do - Pray

Meditation

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