Week 14 - Pure Awareness

Theme:

How can I find my path in life? How can I discover what I have to do in the particular situation I am living in now? Can I find the mentality which will show me the path I should take by prayerfully listening to the Gospels?

I may wish to ask:

That I may have a clearer awareness of what goes on within me and can learn to deal with that in a better way. That I can learn to choose what will help me the most.

Music: All of your ways are peace The Porters Gate

All of your ways are peace
All of your ways are peace
Though we are pressed on ev'ry side
We trust that you are peace

All of your words are true
All of your words are true
Though we have heard so many lies

We trust your words are true

All of your ways are just
All of your ways are just
Though we may say it through our tears
We trust that you are just

All of your ways are peace
All of your ways are peace
All of your ways are peace
All of your ways are peace

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Psalm 16: A still, quiet prayer of David

Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
    I have no good apart from you.”

As for the holy ones in the land, they are the noble,
    in whom is all my delight.

Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows;
    their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out
    or take their names upon my lips.

I consider times in my own life when I needed to take refuge. By whom, or where, was I able to take refuge?

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The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;
    you hold my lot.
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
    I have a goodly heritage.

I bless the Lord who gives me counsel;
    in the night also my heart instructs me.
I keep the Lord always before me;
    because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Can I think of a moment or event in my own life when I felt that God was at my side?

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Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices;
    my body also rests secure.
For you do not give me up to Sheol,
    or let your faithful one see the Pit.

You show me the path of life.
    In your presence there is fullness of joy;
    in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

The poet says: “my body also rests secure”. I think about the people, the names of all those who are unable to feel this. And I may also include my own name.

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Shortly we will end the meditation with the song and we can consider the invitation to trust that God is always with us, to trust that His ways are peace, to trust that His words are true, to trust that He is just. He wants to teach me that His ways lead to Life, that in His presence I will blossom.

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Music: All of Your Ways are Peace