Stillness ~ Passion Creates Intimacy ~

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"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship." ~ C. S. Lewis
  
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It's really difficult to talk to somebody about meditation, because we're usually absorbed in the distractions of life. We catch a glimpse, then walk away... Too busy to soak in the wonder.

And yet, that first pause, that state experience of wonder and curiosity is an awakening of our intuitive heart to the reflections of glory, and a peak through the threshold.

A Child's Tale

May I tell you a little story?  When I was four, we lived deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad was a pastor, and visited his congregation daily. One morning, he took me along on one of his visits.

Dad let me roam in the yard, while he talked with the father of the family. The house was a beautiful, soft blue-gray, with big picture windows that overlooked the mountains.

I was walking through the yard, and came upon Rhododendrons in full bloom. As I looked up at the big soft purple-reddish  flowers, a humming bird descended, and hovered in midair between me and the flowers. It ripped time. Time stopped, hung in midair, and something changed in that little four-year-old's heart forever.

I'm convinced, we've all had experiences like this, a peering over the threshold of time. But then, they get lost and forgotten, in the busy rush of life. It may happened in us, during a fiery sunset, or staring through a hot steaming cup of coffee, in the morning. But it's there, inside us, when we pause and wonder. 

Scripture tells us that God puts eternity in our hearts, but in a way we can't quite grasp it with our minds. *

Just because we've accepted Jesus, doesn't mean we've entered into our love affair with God.

The Tale of Two Frogs

I'm reminded of a story they tell in Zen. It goes like this: There are two frogs sitting on a lily pad. One decides to jump in. How many frogs are left on the lily pad?

The answer is two. Why? Because there's a huge difference between a decision in the mind, and actually doing it.

Please hear this, just because you accepted Jesus, doesn't mean you've entered into the life that God has for you. It's passion that brings intimacy. Passion for God's own heart. Nothing less will do.

And I know of nothing better, that will develop a deep and lasting passion for God, than meditation.

It's no accident that meditation and medicine look and sound so much alike. Meditation is God's medicine to heal your soul.

Don't just begin today. Pause right now, and enter your true nature. 

* God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end. ~ Ecclesiastes 3:11