Centering prayer is an invitation to God to respond to us in times - TopicsExpress



          

Centering prayer is an invitation to God to respond to us in times of silence and stillness that are intentional and a regular part of our daily lives. Thomas Keating offers a picture of the meeting place within silence. At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God written in us, as our poverty, as our indigence, as our son-ship. It is like a pure diamond blazing with the invisible light of heaven. It is in everybody, and if we could see it, we would see these billions of points of light coming together in the face and blaze of a sun that would make all the darkness and cruelty of life vanish completely. I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:33:50 +0000

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