MY Brain.

Today I went for an MRI. I've been having some neurological symptoms lately and my doc wanted to check out all possibilities. I have no idea what it could be, but I have "peace that passes all understanding". Possibilites include Lupus, RA, some other autoimmune disease, or MS. I guess the MRI was looking for MS (or a brain thing, har har).

At any rate, the MRI machine is a great place for the Jesus prayer. I was clicking through the pictures on the DVD they sent home with me and found this image:



What do you see? I see a person kneeling at the foot of the cross, body is to the right of the cross, head/face to the left of the cross. Hair is hanging down.

I needed that today. God doesn't look at my fatigue and see a fat useless "lemon" of a person. That may be how I feel, but it's not the reality. This picture is like an icon of "me".

Comments

Michelle M. said…
That is incredible. Glory to God!
elizabeth said…
very cool!!! ((hugs))... was thinking of you this morning as I walked to work; prayers long time blog friend and lots of love...
Alana said…
when I said "Icon of me" I wasn't thinking in terms of "Oh look I'm so holy, or i'm a saint" AT ALL...more like a computer icon...and image of where I try to stay mentally.
Alana said…
the more I look at this, I also see a second person standing on the left side of the cross, with a stole draped over the head of the kneeling person.

OK, I'll shut up now.
Renee said…
as soon as I saw the pic (before reading what you had written), I saw a cross and two folks under it...looks like one is burdened by it and the other has come along and is speaking to him/her
I also saw a second person on the left, but to me it looked like a woman reaching down to comfort you ... it made me think of the Theotokos.

-- Rebecca