Aerate the soul.  That’s what I heard this morning as I was meditating. Specifically, the Lord told me that meditating is like aerating the soul.  What a beautiful image!  Wonderful thought! Now, what does that mean?

I’m taken to my conversation just a month ago:  As I reflect, I get the sense that learning to meditate and to be still, has much to do with letting nature unfold in its time.  And my life, the same. It will unfold when my soul and spirit — like the earth and the atmosphere — have been prepped and call it forth. 

So, I believe that this aerating is prepping my soul and spirit.

“Indeed, it is,” the Lord says to me.  “It is breaking up the density of thought that weighs you down day after day. The continual conjuring, thinking, imagining, planning – it is so dense that you cannot move forward in light.  As you meditate, become still and sit without agenda, you let the spirit move through you and break up the hardness – the weight —  that holds you down.”

“It brings me into peace.”

“It lets peace emanate; it flows from you, my child.”

So that is aerating the soul, I mumble quietly, in soft breath tones.  “It’s a gentle, welcome process, Lord.”  I know there is more to consider, to meditate on, and in time it will become clear.  But for now, I am satisfied. My soul is calmed. My heart content.