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ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper into God’s love, celebrating the gifts of Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, Silence, Solitude, Service, Nature, and especially the writings of Thomas Keating, and other teachers, contemplatives and mystics who have contributed to our understanding of the spiritual journey and contemplative Christianity.

And to Mary, sister, daughter and mother of Jesus, both Signs of God.

And to our Mother Eve, and her husband Adam, and all other names who have paired the Body to bear forth the Family of God into its ever unfolding fullness.

May Life continue to flourish on planet earth, beyond suffering, war, disease and death.

May increasing numbers of the Family of God arise in understanding into the maturity of Christ where through the third-eye of faith we see and know oneness and diversity in harmony and relationship.

May the imagination of Jesus Christ be ours, as we set our minds on things above, chiefly to see the world and one another no longer through the eyes of judgement, fear and law, but through the promise of Resurrection wherein death and the whole program of human violence rooted in desire and judgement are revealed to be  passing shadows in the darkness, made ever clear by the Light of the World released at Resurrection, spreading as Life and Love since Pentecost.

Amen.

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ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper into God’s love, celebrating the gifts of Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, Silence, Solitude, Service, Nature, and especially the writings of Thomas Keating, and other teachers, contemplatives and mystics who have contributed to our understanding of the spiritual journey and contemplative Christianity.

External life attempts to smother the truth that human beings are the chosen beneficiaries of Your Love.

Help us remember today.

Help us wake up more fully to this truth.

May we recognize, receive, and remember this essential truth of Your Love, despite all external evidence to the contrary.

Your Love operates under a different set of rules that we can’t even understand. But we can feel it, and that makes all the difference.

Amen.

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ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper into God’s love, celebrating the gifts of Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, Silence, Solitude, Service, Nature, and especially the writings of Thomas Keating, and other teachers, contemplatives and mystics who have contributed to our understanding of the spiritual journey and contemplative Christianity.

Although difficult to remember in our culture, I remember that instinctual drives for survival, power and love do not solely define me. I am also created for union with God.

Thus, I am not ashamed of the drive in me that is awakened by Truth, inspiring hunger and thirst for the Kingdom of God.

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ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper into God’s love, celebrating the gifts of Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, Silence, Solitude, Service, Nature, and especially the writings of Thomas Keating, and other teachers, contemplatives and mystics who have contributed to our understanding of the spiritual journey and contemplative Christianity.

Dark emotions arising in reaction to difficulties in life reveal that my inner landscape is full of “towns” still in need of receiving the healing touch of Christ.

Aware of my need for help, I reach out to the divine tassel and receive the grace God so faithfully extends to humankind.

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ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper into God’s love, celebrating the gifts of Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, Silence, Solitude, Service, Nature, and especially the writings of Thomas Keating, and other teachers, contemplatives and mystics who have contributed to our understanding of the spiritual journey and contemplative Christianity.

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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ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper into God’s love, celebrating the gifts of Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, Silence, Solitude, Service, Nature, and especially the writings of Thomas Keating, and other teachers, contemplatives and mystics who have contributed to our understanding of the spiritual journey and contemplative Christianity.

In your grace, our wrong turns become unexpected paths.

Inside this grace enabled surrender, I find your love.

Inside your love, I find silence.

Inside the silence, You Are and I Am.

Amen.

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ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper into God’s love, celebrating the gifts of Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, Silence, Solitude, Service, Nature, and especially the writings of Thomas Keating, and other teachers, contemplatives and mystics who have contributed to our understanding of the spiritual journey and contemplative Christianity.

Even as my life may be coming undone, I am held in the silence of God’ wings.

I take courage knowing that this unloading of past hurts will pass into the lightness of future healing.

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ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper into God’s love, celebrating the gifts of Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, Silence, Solitude, Service, Nature, and especially the writings of Thomas Keating, and other teachers, contemplatives and mystics who have contributed to our understanding of the spiritual journey and contemplative Christianity.