Meditation: The Gifts of Winter

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Dear Friends,

Today a meditation with the gifts of winter. In this guided meditation, you will imagine yourself in a winter scene, listening to the wintry landscape as it teaches you about how to live in the cold and fallow seasons.

Job knew that the natural world understood the fundamental truth of things, understood who God is and how God works

Job: 12:7 But ask the animals, and they will teach you,
    or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
⁸ or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
    or let the fish in the sea inform you.
⁹ Which of all these does not know
    that the hand of the Lord has done this?

And John Scotus Eriugena, the medieval theologian and celitc Christian saw all of creation as sacred text.

So today we ask, together with contemplatives down the ages, what might the winter of January have to teach me?

As always, if you don’t feel safe in a meditation, do bring your attention out of that space and return to the breath, or something else that feels calm and loving.

Blessings, dear ones.

L

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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All music by Pete Hatch.