Are you feeling a nudge to deepen your relationship with God? Prayer allows us to give ourselves to this relationship, sharing and exchanging our most intimate thoughts and feelings on both mental and spiritual levels. This practice helps us know the divine in our life and see the banquet of love before us. It calls us to the fullness of life.
Centering Prayer is a method of silent prayer that prepares us to receive the gift of contemplative prayer, prayer in which we experience God’s presence within us, closer than breathing, closer than thinking, closer than consciousness itself. This method of prayer is both a relationship with God and a discipline to foster that relationship.
Centering Prayer is not meant to replace other kinds of prayer. Rather, it adds depth of meaning to all prayer and facilitates the movement from more active modes of prayer — verbal, mental or affective prayer — into a receptive prayer of resting in God. Centering Prayer emphasizes prayer as a personal relationship with God and as a movement beyond conversation with Christ to communion with Him.
The source of Centering Prayer, as in all methods leading to contemplative prayer, is the Indwelling Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The focus of Centering Prayer is the deepening of our relationship with the living Christ. The effects of Centering Prayer are ecclesial, as the prayer tends to build communities of faith and bond the members together in mutual friendship and love.
Thank you, Lord, for the practices that deepen our relationship with You giving us the eyes to see and the ears to hear You calling us to the banquet that is our lives, as they are.
Smitten With Goodness 