Centering Prayer: Freedom from Worry

10/18/19 • 24 min

The Presence Project Podcast

How centering prayer teaches our brains to release compulsive thoughts into the hands of God.

How centering prayer teaches our brains to release compulsive thoughts into the hands of God.

Previous Episode

The Cost of Hurry

Hurry clamps down on creativity.

Hurry makes decision-making nearly impossible.

Hurry leaves us weary.

Hurry divides our focus.

And usually, Hurry is driven by anxiety.

Overwork. Overfunctioning. Overscheduling. They’re rarely if ever driven by joy or trust. And if we follow the train back far enough, we find they’re created by fear. Fear we’ll miss something. Fear we’ll be rejected. Fear we’re not caring enough. Fear Fear Fear.

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The Hidden Beauty of the Human Soul

"Sometimes we get a glimpse of a soul and we want to take off our shoes.

Whether it’s looking into the eyes of the checkout clerk surprised someone truly wants to know how she’s doing or a spiritual directee who lets me see the pain underneath her socially accepted story. Like all of us, she’s become adept at holding up a whole bevy of masks. Every time she walks into our chapel for direction, she takes a while to settle, going through an awkward song and dance performing for my approval before becoming quiet and receptive to the Spirit.

What she doesn’t know is that underneath, when the Holy Spirit broods over her vulnerable story, she’s stunning. & the wrinkles and scars point to a story as deep as her words.

And then as she closes her eyes childlike, holding her face up to the light of God’s Presence I too am warmed by her light."

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