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Category: Prayer (Page 8 of 9)

Contemplation

Someone recently shared with me an awesome app – it’s called Pray as you go and it’s free.  You can get it on your iPhone, ipad and I believe any other “smart” device.  As I was navigating through the app, I came upon a section called Imaginative Contemplation Exercises.  I was so excited to see it because I remembered the first time I did an exercise like that – it was in my old parish during a women’s retreat – the nun in charge asked us to close our eyes and imagine being in the story she was about to read.  It was the Road to Emmaus – and as I sat with my eyes closed, listening to the story, imagining myself in the story,  the tears began to fall down my face because I truly felt the presence of Christ!  What an experience.

So if you are interested in growing closer to God and feeling the presence of Christ, I would definitely recommend that you download this app onto your mobile device.  There are many more resources attached to the app as well.  Take a look.  If you do not have a mobile device or do not wish to download the app, you can access the website here.  I would  recommend taking a look at the website even if you do download the app because there are so many more resources that will help you go deeper in your relationship with God.  If you would like to access the contemplation exercises directly from the website click here.

I’m so excited to be sharing this information with you.  If you have a chance to check it out, let me know what you think!

Take a moment for God

Another from my morning ritual:

 

Dear Lord, I thank You for this day. I thank You for my being able to wake once again, to see and to hear this morning.  I’m blessed because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God.  You have done so much for me and You continue to bless me.  Please forgive me every day for anything I have done, said or thought that was not pleasing to you, and I ask now for Your forgiveness.  Please keep me safe from all danger and harm.  Help me to start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude.  Let me make the best of each and every day to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.  Please broaden my mind that I can accept all things.  Let me not whine and whimper over things I have no control over.  Let me continue to see sin through God’s eyes and acknowledge it as evil.  And when I sin, let me repent, and confess with my mouth my wrongdoing, and receive Your forgiveness.  And when this world closes in on me, let me remember Jesus’ example – to slip away and find a quiet place to pray.  It’s the best response when I’m pushed beyond my limits.  Continue to use me to do Your will.  Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others.  Keep me strong that I may help the weak.  Keep me uplifted that I may have words of encouragement for others.  I pray for those that are lost and can’t find their way. I pray for those that are misjudged and misunderstood.  I pray for those who don’t know You intimately.  I pray for those that don’t believe and I’m grateful that you are in my heart.  In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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