Phil: Paragraph 8- Meditation
Posted on 04. Jun, 2009 by Jeremy in Meditation
And I’m going to keep that celebration going because I know how it’s going to turn out. Through your faithful prayers and the generous response of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, everything he wants to do in and through me will be done. I can hardly wait to continue on my course. I don’t expect to be embarrassed in the least. On the contrary, everything happening to me in this jail only serves to make Christ more accurately known, regardless of whether I live or die. They didn’t shut me up; they gave me a pulpit! Alive, I’m Christ’s messenger; dead, I’m his bounty. Life versus even more life! I can’t lose.
Suggested Time:
Lectio- (word) 10 minutes
Meditatio- (emotion) 5 minutes
Oratio- (application) 10 minutes
Contemplatio- (stillness) 5 minutes
ps. It helps if you don’t read the comments or study blog before you do the exercise :)
Jeremy
Jun 4th, 2009
Lectio: Generous Response
Meditatio: Valued
Oratio: I continually come back to a phrase by Blaise Pascal describing prayer- “Dignity of Causality”. The Holy Spirit draws me to pray, I pray, He answers. Why do I get to be such a large variable? Why do I get to play such a huge part? He values me. He has chosen to value me. He desires and longs to show me value. Overwhelming.
Contemplatio: Because I’ve been out of the country for a while, I haven’t done this exercise with this passage- so I feel like the cork came off the bottle and thoughts, words and rabbit trails were non-stop
Madi
Sep 15th, 2009
Lectio: Christ’s messenger
Meditatio: My heart has been aching for awhile and I think God is and has been showing me how he feels about his lost children. Usually if I see a person who looks sad or broken , I say a prayer for them but I know God is challenging me to talk to them. It will be so hard because I like the circle of friends I have and its kinda scary actually talking to someone about Him. But I have to that is my mission for this year and the years to come, To talk to people about Christ.
Oratio: God take away my selfish desires of shyness towards the hurting,
let your light shine through me. God show me who you are. Show me what friends aren’t good for me. God let your presence fill KCS. Amen.
Contemplatio: Strength