| Christian Meditation. Because it matters. | | | | breath, as non-Christian meditation will have you |
| Meditation. Support for the weary. Comfort for | | | | do, and let that be the sum of my hope. My |
| the lonely. Soothing for anxiety, help for despair. | | | | breath will end. There is no comfort there. There |
| For most Christians, "God" is a vague "out-there". | | | | is no hope for a future beyond my self. |
| Words on a page, an idea during prayer time at | | | | But when I rest in the Lord, and allow His Spirit to |
| church and with friends. We may still hope for | | | | fill me with His breath--true comfort is there. |
| help "in-here", but for most, there is little actual | | | | And with Christian meditation, I no longer have to |
| relationship, little trust in something real, no | | | | waste my time "trying to love an ideal, and be |
| experience of comfort and joy. | | | | loyal to a mere principle". I have yes-no-kidding |
| Tozer says it best--and he shocked me to my | | | | experienced walking with Jesus--and I wasn't |
| toes when I read it: "for millions of Christians, | | | | scared either, which is a little weird, now that I |
| nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to | | | | think about it! I have felt His comfort in my pain, |
| the non-Christian. They go through life trying to | | | | I've actually experienced His forgiveness, His |
| love an ideal, and be loyal to a mere principle." | | | | peace and the joy of His love filling my heart. |
| That breaks my heart because it's true. It | | | | Really. Not just words. |
| shocked me because I thought I was the only | | | | And that's why I want to share Christian |
| one who ever felt that way! | | | | meditation with you. |
| Have you ever felt that aloneness, that 'trying but | | | | Come in where the love is. Open your heart to |
| never reaching'? I sure did. I felt guilt--but I never | | | | fullness, washing away the darkness, filling your |
| felt loved. I felt longing, but not comfort; fear, but | | | | very center, the deepest heart of you, with light |
| not safety; alone, but not held. | | | | and joy. Experience the surprise of places you've |
| Meditation opens a space in our hearts, so we can | | | | never been. And come day after day, because |
| experience His love. | | | | the darkness will re-fill, you can bet on it! |
| Not just meditation itself, incidentally. It may | | | | This resting in Him, this relationship of |
| comfort you just to meditate and feel physically | | | | trust-made-full, is our heart home. It's how we |
| warm and full--but I have no desire to rest in my | | | | were made--experience the joy. |