Cultivate Study, Reflection, and Prayer
Anyone who aspires to contemplation ought to cultivate Study, Reflection, and Prayer, or to put it differently, reading, thinking, and praying.
Prayer Does not Change God – It Changes the One Praying
The prayer does not change God, but it changes the one who offers it. It is the same with the substance of what is spoken. Not God, but you, the maker of the confession, get to know something by your act of confession. – Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing
To You We Ascribe All Credit and Glory
Give to your servants words to speak Your truth,
The message You have place in our hearts, the message clear as any crystal chime.
Lord we cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, You oh Lord are Holy.
The Power of a Word
The goal is to move past the point when you do anything, to the point where God is the only one acting. Anytime you are active (thinking), it is from your seat of power, the heart or the will. So when the mind wanders
The Cloud of Unknowing – Author Unknown
A contemplative prentice should be occupied, the which be these—Lesson, Meditation, and Orison: … they may be called—Reading, Thinking, and Praying
Prayer – 1 – The Tabernacle – The Dwelling of Priestly Service
Jesus, the anointed, is the perfect High Priest. Having made the perfect sacrifice, Himself on the cross, the veil separating the Holy of Holies was torn, indicating that the way to God was no longer separating the presence of God from the priests as they serve at the furniture in the Tabernacle: