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A 25-minute audio guided meditation in John’s Gospel, John 11:32-44, Lazarus is raised from the dead, using Imaginative Contemplation.

There are so many feelings in this story: Mary and Martha’s great grief mixed with feelings of profound disappointment with Jesus. Their angry confusion that he hadn’t come to heal Lazarus. Their apprehension when Jesus asks them to open the tomb. The feeling of the community, again grief, amazement at how much Jesus loved Lazarus, and disappointment and anger that he hadn’t come earlier. Jesus’ own feelings of deep sorrow, distress, disturbance. And of course the feelings of those who are silent in this story: the disciples who were with Jesus, who were perhaps the ones to come forward to roll away the stone, and unbind the cloths.

So I invite you to be aware of your own feelings as you listen: noticing without judgement, but with simple curiosity and acknowledgement what stirs within you.

This imaginative contemplation invites you to allow the scene to come to life in your imagination, and then to imagine these events taking place in some aspect of your own life.

Every blessing as you pray.

Closing blessing: Ephesians 3:20

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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All music by Pete Hatch.