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This guided meditation offers you a quiet pause to reconnect with your breath, the Presence of Love, and the question “What is Your will for me for the next few hours?”

This might be a little prayer you make at midday, or a few times throughout the day, though there is no incorrect time to pause for this prayer.

The meditation has three movements

1. To check in with yourself, feel your breath and your grounded connection in this moment
2. To gaze at God as God Lovingly gazes at you
3. To ask God: what is your will for me for the next few hours?

It is a little check-in, informed by these words which have caught my attention this week:

“A contemplative is never to be resigned to God’s will, but to will It. That is, to want It.” – Finbarr Lynch, SJ, “When You Can’t Pray”

“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2

“Planted like a tree in the spring of life, a deeds of a soul in grace delight both the human and the divine.” – Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle (Tr Mirabai Starr)

Sometimes we think of our our “deeds” or God’s “will” as pertaining only to big, sweeping actions, but as I navigate the movements of my ordinary days, I find that there is often a deep yes to be found in even the tiniest of decisions.

All blessings dearest ones.

Lissy

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. 

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