Open the Door

I sat there, trying my best to be still. Close my eyes, let my mind stop talking, creating, complaining, what ifing, dreaming, planning. I had 28 minutes to go; I could open the door and let the cool air in, but I needed this for my physical healing, so I've heard.

The sauna door remained shut. I planted my feet on the floor, closed my eyes, and cleared my mind. I began concentrating on my breaths, my heart beat, and the sweat poured off me. My mind was clearing, I could feel my feet on the rocks, I heard the meditation music playing, and I was thoughtless.

I was startled by a loud voice as a commercial screeched into my thoughts on my pandora station (I do not pay for uninterrupted) that went to a commercial break. I opened my eyes and realized I was 10 minutes in; I could do this. I began planning; it's who I am. I thought I would open the door every commercial break, get my water, and breathe in the cold air.

As I shut the door, I began to think about what it must be like to be trapped when you can't open the door. Every day you wake, you feel the heat and cannot find joy and happiness. For the next round of meditation and sweating sessions, I began to praise and thank God for the gift he has given me, knowing His Son, Jesus.

I am healed, I do not fear, I am upheld by His righteous hand, I have peace knowing I have eternal life.(1)

Isaiah 43:18-19 Forget what happened long ago! Don't think about the past. I am creating something new. There it is! Do you see it? I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

Colossians 1: 21-22This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.

I am not stuck, and neither are you. You can have grace, joy, love, mercy, forgiveness, and salvation. You have to accept Jesus as your Savior, believe He died for your sins and rose again, confess your sins, ask for forgiveness, and follow Him. John 3:15-16 NLT everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

I finished that 30 minutes of physical healing that turned into mental and heart healing. I realized God had given me a blog to write about not staying stuck in darkness and having sadness in myself. I have a way out; open the door. He is waiting for you.

God is so good.

Scripture reading:

Isaiah 53: 5

Isaiah 41: 10-13