How to use the meditations
1. Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed.
2. Read through the whole meditation a few times, then put it down.
3. Sit in a position both comfortable and alert.
4. Allow the meditation 10 minutes or so in your imagination. Do not give up before this time; stay with it.
5. Allow another 10 minutes for recording what happened. Allow events to develop as you record. |
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MEDITATION 47
WHEN WE HAVEN'T A PRAYER
Some people say we haven't a prayer, but I don't find that's true.
We can't always manage a prayer ourselves. Perhaps we try, but it seems dry and manufactured; a cheap tin cymbal of a sound, when we were hoping for the full orchestra. Or maybe the whole business of prayer feels mad, ridiculous and pathetic. It's a childish nonsense we want no part in. "I haven't a prayer and let's keep I that way!"
And so the day prays for us, on our behalf – echoing through our body and soul holy lines from another place. Perhaps it's the blessing of the ticket collector's smile, unbidden and bright; or an aroma on the street – a bakery of flower shop? – taking you back across the years in sacred recollection. Or is it the life-scraped shoes of the beggar by the cash point, bidding you reassess; or the old brick tunnel into which the dark-watered canal disappears; all mysterious and unknown?
It's best when we haven't a prayer; we find ourselves caught up in something altogether larger and more compelling. A full orchestra in fact.
Consider
Did the day pray with you yesterday?
Or today?
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