What might God be wanting to create within you?
This is one reason why I practice Centering Prayer.
If I do not slow down and spend this time with God I might never know what God creates within me.
God seems to be patient and never pushy.
I believe God plants seeds within me and then waits.
God also seems to gently nudge me a little bit too.
And then God goes back to waiting.
How does God create things within me.
God prays silently in me while I sit in the silence of Centering Prayer.
I do not even know this happens.
It happens beyond my thoughts and emotions.
God plants these prayers deep within my innermost soul.
I believe each time I sit in silent prayer God prays the same prayers and even new ones in me.
God prays what I should do.
And now God wants me to go off and take action.
Even if they are out of my comfort zone God wants me to take action.
God will be with me as I take this action.
I will continue to return to my daily silent sits.
And let God create in me.
P.S. Need help with discerning what God has created in you? Contact me. I might be able to help.
Go Further:
Open Mind, Open Heart 20th Anniversary Edition by Thomas Keating and Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening were the first two books I read as I began my Centering Prayer practice.
The Path of Centering Prayer: Deepening Your Experience of God by David Frenette
Moving from Stress to Joy by Nicholas Amato
Putting on the Mind of Christ: The Inner Work of Christian Spirituality by James Marion
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