Beloved:
Today I make the inward turn to silence to feel Your strength as the energy for all my doings and also my deepest rest.
In Christ, Soul of my soul. Amen.
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Resting in the Spirit is a practice I have only recently began to engage in and added to my spiritual practice. There are times when my mind won’t allow me to reach that silence and it is a great labor and seemingly futile to forget my thoughts and the din of the world. But there was one time while praying in an empty church that I think I managed to forget the world and truly rest in the Spirit for a couple minutes. While in that mysterious space, however brief, there was healing, abundant love, and infinite yet specific mercy. I believe that encounter will keep me in this practice for the rest of my days. I thank you for these prayers, and pray that more Christians will enter silence and encounter the living God.
Really beautiful.