Today’s evening meditation is available below in audio and script formats. The audio version is also available for free download on the player.

Reading

We cannot know God only by thinking thoughts. Unfortunately, for much of Christianity, faith largely became believing statements to be true or false instead of giving people concrete practices so they could themselves know how to open up, hold on, and allow an infilling from another source. Contemplation opens our heads, hearts, and bodies to God’s living presence.

—Richard Rohr

Quiet

As your day draws to a close, spend a few moments in silence and stillness.

Prayer

Holy God, keep me from dishonoring you, boxing you into tidy formulas I can take hold of, taming you into something I can manage. Let me really know you so I never trivialize you but make the glory of your name the concern of my life. Amen. (HC)

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Abbreviations

(BC) The Belgic Confession

(CAC) The Center For Action & Contemplation

(CD) The Canons of Dort

(CIB) Church In Bethesda Prayers

(DZ) Donna Z.

(HC) The Heidelberg Catechism

(IO) Inward Outward

(MAO) Michael A. O’Sullivan

(NT) The New Testament

(OT) The Old Testament

(RP) Ryan Phipps

(TAO) The Tao Te Ching

(WC) The Westminster Confession

(WLB) Words To Live By

(WLC) The Westminster Larger Catechism

(WSC) The Westminster Shorter Catechism

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