“You can’t go wrong in this life if you trust God. It doesn’t matter what you have done. God is eager to give you everything He can give you.”
Do you believe this?
That is why I think it is so important to sit in the silence of Centering Prayer or some type of contemplative practice.
Silence teaches us who we are.
Silence slows us down and opens us to God.
We connect to God who has always been within patiently waiting.
Silence helps us become our true self: the person God wishes us to be.
This is not the person our families, friends, workplaces and communities tell us we should be.
Silence frees us.
It allows God to give us everything He is eager to give us.
We open to life and all it can bring us.
We are fully present.
We enjoy and see life NOW.
We let our actions be motivated by the spirit of God within.
We recognize a need in front of us and we act on it.
Each day we let our reality be driven by what God wants us to be and experience.
Will you trust God?
Will you let God give you everything He is eager to give you?
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Go Further:
Be Still and Listen: Experience the Presence of God in Your Life by Amos Smith
The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See by Richard Rohr
Dante’s Road: The Journey Home for the Modern Soul by Marc Thomas Shaw
Becoming an Ordinary Mystic: Spirituality for the Rest of Us by Albert Haase, OFM
The Spiritual Journey|Formation in the Christian Contemplative Life by Contemplative Outreach, Pamela Begeman, Mary Anne Best, Mary Dwyer, Julie Saad: This online program lays a foundation for understanding the spiritual journey through Christian, psychological, evolutional, and existential paradigms. You will receive education and formation in Christian contemplation, along with support and connection to an intentional global community bonded through our common search for God.
Centering Prayer Course | A Training Course for Opening to the Presence of God by Father Thomas Keating, Father Carl Arico, Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler: In-depth training in the Christian contemplative path of prayer—a self-guided course. (40% off)
Monk Manual: At the start of each day we ask, what is my greatest contribution today? How can I serve? At the end of each day, we look back and see what went well and where we want to improve.
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Contemplative Light offers courses on contemplative practices (Christian Meditation, Centering Prayer, The Examen, Lectio Divina, The Jesus Prayer), the Christian mystics (ancient and current), spiritual writing as a practice and how to write a devotional. Peruse their wonderful offerings.
The Jesus Prayer can be prayed anytime with the use of a prayer bracelet or prayer rope. Peruse the traditional and contemporary prayer ropes and bracelets available at Prayer Bracelet.
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