Meditation
1. FIND A QUIET PLACE.
Make sure that you are in a quiet place. Sit comfortably but alert – feet flat on the floor, back pushed hard against the back of the chair. Start your reflection with hands cupped open ready to be open to God’s presence.
2. Focus on your breathing.
Pay attention to in-breaths and out-breaths. You may think of breathing in God’s life and peace and breathing out any tension.
3. Be aware of your body.
Let your aches and pains be there. Rest your hands in your lap; you don’t need to be doing anything with them now. Rest your feet on the floor; you don’t need to go anywhere. Shrug your shoulders, ease your neck. Take time to become still…
4. Repeat the verse
Take time to become still and repeat verse 5 to yourself and intersperse this with periods of silence. Empty your head and wait to see what emerges.
5. Listen to God
In the stillness listen to what God might be saying to you. Finish with the prayer below.
6. Finish with this prayer:
Lord, help me to hear your still, small, voice in the silence. Let it also break though the noise of busy, difficult days. Help me to place my trust in you and not in my own ability or power, Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen