Take a look at Mark 2: 1-12. Read those 12 verses first.
Here is the Amplified version of the Bible I am using.
Of course, this is a story about Jesus, but I am going to view it for the moment as a parable.
Regard the house in these verses as the human body, your body. In the heart of the house resides Heartfelt Wisdom. At the roof of the house (the head) there is much consternation, even destruction.
The roof gives way and the paralysis of the head is lowered into the heart for healing. It has to allow itself to be lowered (humbled). It can get in no other way. The front door, the external entrance, is blocked. This is an internal matter.
Heartful Wisdom does not get upset, seems to regard this as a natural course of events. The open-hearted Wisdom says the exact right words to the head paralysis.
The closed minded suspicious aspect of ourselves, our resident cynic, mutters however: "This can't be happening! And anyway if it can, you used the wrong words, Wisdom! You should say it this way!"
The cynic cracks me up. What a clown. Won't do anything to help and when help comes, says the help should have been administered this way, not that way! What a bozo, trying to be so correct and proper while playing the utter fool.
In this story/parable, Heartfelt Wisdom says to the cynic, "Okay, I'll do it that way too." And does. No more is heard from the cynic.
The sick, confused, and paralyzed head is released from all its junk, takes up its bed of paralysis (provides no room for it anymore), and goes out the front door, obeying Heartfelt Wisdom's instructions:"Be going on home."
I love it!
Here is the Amplified version of the Bible I am using.
Of course, this is a story about Jesus, but I am going to view it for the moment as a parable.
Regard the house in these verses as the human body, your body. In the heart of the house resides Heartfelt Wisdom. At the roof of the house (the head) there is much consternation, even destruction.
The roof gives way and the paralysis of the head is lowered into the heart for healing. It has to allow itself to be lowered (humbled). It can get in no other way. The front door, the external entrance, is blocked. This is an internal matter.
Heartful Wisdom does not get upset, seems to regard this as a natural course of events. The open-hearted Wisdom says the exact right words to the head paralysis.
The closed minded suspicious aspect of ourselves, our resident cynic, mutters however: "This can't be happening! And anyway if it can, you used the wrong words, Wisdom! You should say it this way!"
The cynic cracks me up. What a clown. Won't do anything to help and when help comes, says the help should have been administered this way, not that way! What a bozo, trying to be so correct and proper while playing the utter fool.
In this story/parable, Heartfelt Wisdom says to the cynic, "Okay, I'll do it that way too." And does. No more is heard from the cynic.
The sick, confused, and paralyzed head is released from all its junk, takes up its bed of paralysis (provides no room for it anymore), and goes out the front door, obeying Heartfelt Wisdom's instructions:"Be going on home."
I love it!
I love this!* Thanks so much!
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