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Contemplative Worship Team - February 11, 2024

Rooted in Love: Week 1

We begin our prayer by disposing our body. Let it be relaxed and calm, but inwardly alert. The root of prayer is interior silence. We may think of prayer as thoughts or feelings expressed in words, but this is only one expression. Deep prayer is the laying aside of thoughts. It is the opening of mind and heart, body and feelings -- our whole being -- to God, the Ultimate Mystery, beyond words, thought, and emotions. We do not resist them or suppress them. We accept them as they are and go beyond them, not by effort, but by letting them all go by. We open our awareness to the Ultimate Mystery whom we know by faith is within us, closer than breathing, closer than thinking, closer than choosing -- closer than consciousness itself. The Ultimate Mystery is the ground in which our being is rooted, the source from whom our life emerges at every moment. Fr. Thomas Keating

Scripture References: Psalms 125:1-5, Ephesians 3:14-19

From Series: "Contemplative Worship"

Contemplative Worship with The Center for Christian Spirituality in Houston, Texas. A ministry of Chapelwood United Methodist Church

February 11, 2024 Worship Bulletin

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