A Christian Meditation on Putting On God’s Love from Colossians 3:13

<p>God’s love is described in the New Testament as something you imaginatively “clothe yourself” with. This kind of Christian meditation brings the transcendent experience of God into your mind and into your body so that you can replace anxiety, insecurity, stress and tension with the better and truer imagination of God’s infinite and intimate presence and love for YOU.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that for this podcast.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Body mindfulness and awareness helps you embrace your body — recalibrate your body — with the reality of God’s life-giving presence and love.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We will first focus on meditation and your body. Connecting your physical body with your spirit. Then we’ll add a meditation on Colossians 3:13 to re-calibrate your body and spirit with God’s presence and love..</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Colossians 3:12</strong></p><p>…as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. …14 And over all these virtues put on love…”</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Steve Cuss (</strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Leadership-Anxiety-Yours-Theirs/dp/1400210887/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1749M72MLPK1W&amp;keywords=managing+leadership+anxiety&amp;qid=1653064299&amp;sprefix=managing+leader%2Caps%2C88&amp;sr=8-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Managing Leadership Anxiety</em></a><strong>)</strong></p><p>Anxiety is a signal, not a root cause. Anxiety is generated when we think we need something in any particular moment that we don’t actually need. Anxiety is not just worry and fear. It’s how you react when you don’t get something you think you need.</p><p><br></p><p>The point is that anxiety becomes a marker that something other than God’s presence and love is at play in my mind and body.</p><p><br></p><p>So when anxiety strikes (elevated heart rate, muscle tension, mental distraction, anger fantasies), some questions to consider:</p><p>1) What