My reading this morning was from Romans 12, and after reading it in The Message I want to dig into it a bit more. There’s some good stuff in here that’s applicable to centering prayer! “Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him…Fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you…God brings [all this goodness] to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.”
Also, I went back to my notes from a Centering Prayer Workshop to double check what they said the purpose was:
"The principle effects of centering prayer are experienced in daily life, NOT in prayer itself."
- ability to live in the present moment, ability to let go
- growing capacity to listen to others and forget ourselves as number one
- non-judgmental attitude, more open to giving and receiving
During the months and months of waiting for news about Mark's applications for post-graduate fellowships, Centering Prayer has been a really meaningful practice for both of us to remind ourselves that God is in control and working in us and for us.
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