I was preparing to travel to see my family back home in iowa, when I came across a peculiar piece of text while reading a book on paradoxes. The text was from matthew 13.
The passage from Matthew 13 reads:
53 When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there.
54 Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?" they asked.
55 "Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?
56 Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?"
57 And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor."
58 And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.
I was told this information in preparation for the kind of response I would be expecting from my family back in iowa.
You see, my family is what you would consider as fundamentalist. In some ways it's kind of a good thing, and in other ways it's kinda bad. The ways in which it is good is that they really have a good grasp on the various passages in the bible, but in other ways, it is like a more rigid approach to concepts. Instead of understanding the concepts and applying them today, a fundamentalist will instead prefer to hold on to the ideals of eras gone by.
I used to be that way, but I don't think that's what God's been pointing me towards in the last 7 or so years. (and possibly longer)
For me, learning reiki was a matter of me learning to utilize the gift that God bestowed upon me already and becoming better at it. (I was already able to do scanning and energy transfer well before the class, as it was natural) I totally believe that reiki is a gift that comes directly from God.
However, this past weekend, I don't think everyone was seeing it that way. I gave brief moments of energy to my older brother (as he was completely wiped of energy) and my sister (who wanted some help with her sinuses), but those were just short moments where I could just pass a bit of energy. It's nowhere near the hour that it usually takes me to "perform a treatment".
I tried explaining it to my other brother, and I had him hold his hand out. He said it's warm, but he didn't see it as healing or anything like that.
To me, it's a bit frustrating to see people who could obviously use some of the reiki energy, but they just don't seem interested or open to it. I think it's all the more frustrating when it's family.
The deal with reiki or the passage in matthew is that there is a paradox with people that need healing and their willingness to actually receive it. You can't heal with reiki if the person doesn't want to be healed. It's actually in the handbook. Not much you can do about it.
Just like the man who said he has no sin, there is someone who says that they don't need healed. Now, I don't know if I have a clue about what I am able to do or sense, but I am fairly sure I can feel people's pain and I can attest from what I have sensed that everyone could use healing.
I feel the numbness in their limbs, I feel the sharp pain in the lower back, I feel the tension in their neck and I feel their headaches behind their eyes. I sense the sadness, happiness, boredom and frustrations of the people around me.
And it frustrates me as well.
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