Contemplative Worship Team - October 8, 2023
The Mindful Christian: Awakening to Liberating Wisdom - Week 1
What is the model of being human that lies behind mindfulness? It is that in spite of appearances, all is well. Creation is benign. Life can be trusted. Suffering certainly copiously exists but a stronger grace longs to be felt, if only we can ease up on our desperate self-holding and so know it in some silence. To put it another way, mindfulness is premised on the conviction that our worried egos and daily preoccupations veil the truth that our lives rest in a life that sustains and supports all things. Mindfulness nurtures the experience of knowing the God ‘in whom we live and move and have our being.’ Mark Vernon Let your mind and heart release all that disturbs you. Let your body be still, and all the frettings of your body, and all that surrounds it; let the earth and sea and air be still and heaven itself; and then think of Spirit as streaming, pouring, rushing, and shining into you, through you, and out from you in all directions while you sit quiet. Paraphrase of Plotinus by Eric Butterworth
Scripture References: Philippians 1:3-6, Philippians 1:9-11
From Series: "Contemplative Worship"
Contemplative Worship with The Center for Christian Spirituality in Houston, Texas. A ministry of Chapelwood United Methodist Church
