Readings Week of July 14th.
- heather
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Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses
*All previous readings & reflections can be found here*
Monday, July 14 with Lacey
Reading: "At root, Centering Prayer is a very simple method for reconnecting us with that natural aptitude for the inner life, that simplicity always available within regardless of what is happening externally. It is very simple. You sit…and allow your heart to open toward that invisible but always present Origin of all that exists – God. Whenever a thought comes into your mind, you simply let the thought go and return to that open, silent attending upon the depths. Not because thinking is bad, but because it pulls you back to the surface of yourself. You use a short word or phrase…to help you let go… promptly and cleanly…What goes on in those silent depths during the time of Centering Prayer is between your innermost being and God; that place where as St. Augustine once said, “God is closer to your soul than you are to yourself.” Your own subjective experience of the prayer may be that nothing happened – except for the more-or-less continuous motion of letting go of thoughts, emotions, and sensations. But in the depths of your being, in fact, plenty has been going on, and things are quietly but firmly being rearranged. That interior rearrangement – or to give it its rightful name, that interior awakening… to a more abundant reality – is the real business of Centering Prayer." — Cynthia Bourgeault, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
Chant: Draw us deeper into silence, draw us into you. Draw us deeper into stillness, draw us into you. — Henry Schoenfield
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