JESUS, Morning Communion

Morning Communion with Jesus

Healing the Suffering That Awakens With You

For the moments when dawn feels heavy.
“Love is Everything.” — G. Ross Clark

Introduction

Many hearts experience a mysterious heaviness upon waking — a morning suffering that feels physical, emotional, and spiritual. In these tender hours, we meet the raw material of awareness itself. This guide offers three gentle approaches for working with morning suffering in the presence of Jesus — uniting awareness, love, and grace.

Approach 1 — There is Suffering, There is Love, There is Jesus

In this approach, you begin exactly where you are. The body feels pain, the mind feels despair. You do not run from it, nor do you make it personal. You simply note: “There is suffering.” As you stay with the experience without judgment, the mind softens and the heart begins to open. In that space, love naturally appears, and within love, the quiet presence of Jesus becomes felt.

Best for:

Mornings when despair or physical discomfort feels dominant and you can remain present without being overwhelmed.

Key phrase:

“There is suffering. There is love. There is Jesus.”

Approach 2 — There is Jesus, There is Love, There is Suffering

This method begins with divine refuge. You start by remembering or invoking the living presence of Jesus. You feel His compassion, His safety, and His love. Once your heart is anchored in that love, you gently allow awareness of suffering to enter the field. Now the pain is seen not as an enemy but as something being lovingly held by Christ within you.

Best for:

When your suffering feels too heavy to face directly. Beginning with Jesus brings comfort first, then courage to meet pain.

Key phrase:

“There is Jesus. There is love. There is suffering.”

Approach 3 — The Integrative Way: Jesus and Awareness Breathing Together

This approach blends both pathways — beginning with awareness, invoking Jesus, and resting in love. It allows you to acknowledge the truth of suffering while being held in divine companionship.

Morning Practice:

  1. As you wake, remain still and sense the body. Feel the heaviness, the ache, the emotion.
    2. Softly note: “There is suffering.” Let it be acknowledged.
    3. Whisper inwardly: “Beloved Jesus, You are here.” Imagine His hand over your heart.
    4. As awareness and presence unite, feel warmth spreading. Say inwardly: “There is love.”
    5. Rest for a few breaths with all three:
    • There is suffering.
    • There is love.
    • There is Jesus.
    6. Sense that all are held in awareness — one field, one peace.

Why This Works

This integrative way unites mindfulness and devotion. Awareness honors what is real. Love becomes the alchemical medium. Jesus brings grace — transforming pain into communion. The morning despair is not an error; it is a sacred doorway to Presence.

Practical Morning Reminders

  • Do not rush to be free of pain; let the first breaths be devoted to awareness.
    • Feel sensations without fusing with them — “There is sadness” is enough.
    • Invite Jesus as companion, not rescuer.
    • Let light come slowly; treat yourself as tenderly as dawn treats the earth.

Short Morning Practice (3–5 minutes)

  1. Breath 1 — “There is suffering.”
    2. Breath 2 — “There is love.”
    3. Breath 3 — “There is Jesus.”
    4. Breath 4 — “All are held in awareness.”Repeat as needed until your heart softens and your body feels safe to move.

Summary of Approaches

  • Approach 1: Awareness first — best when pain is approachable.
    • Approach 2: Jesus first — best when despair feels overwhelming.
    • Approach 3: Integrated — awareness and love breathing together.Each approach leads to the same truth: suffering and love are not opposites. They are movements within the same divine field of healing.

Closing Reflection

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28

“If you know how to suffer, you suffer much less.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

The morning suffering is not punishment; it is the dawn of grace. Through awareness and Jesus, despair becomes devotion, and heaviness becomes holiness.

Closing Blessing

Beloved Jesus,
At the edge of morning, when fear and sorrow awaken with me,
help me to remember that You are already here.
Teach me to breathe with You —
to meet suffering with love,
to let despair become devotion,
and to rest as awareness itself.

There is suffering.
There is love.
There is Jesus.

Love is Everything.

— G. Ross Clark

PROMOT

JESUS, Pain & Suffering when waking up in the morning: I have a lot of pain and suffering when I wake up in the morning, and I’m not sure what is the best healing practice. Should I continue to draw on the suffering, feel the suffering, be with the suffering, note the suffering without making or taking it too personal? Or should I go to Jesus and become well-established in Jesus and love, and then go to the suffering, the morning time suffering, that’s in my body, that’s in my mind? Please, recommend which approach is the best.

  1. “there is suffering, there is love, there is Jesus,”
  2. “there is Jesus, there is love, there is suffering,” And approach
  3. suggests what would be better ways to work with morning dread, morning suffering, morning despair and the reasons why. Thank you

This is a very profound and tender question — one that touches the heart of both spiritual healing and embodied awareness.

Morning despair is among the deepest forms of suffering because it arises before the mind is fully awake, when we are most vulnerable. What you’re describing is not only human but also sacred — because it’s exactly where grace meets awareness.

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