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#1 ·
do you do it?

what do you do?

personally, each morning i have a few readings, pray, then sit silently (meditate) for a few minutes (increase a minute each month).

also have tried a couple other meditaions, some guided ones.

have stuff i try to do throughout the day as well to keep that contact.

just curious, it's a vast subject and i'm interested in what others do and open to try new things.
 
#2 ·
pray when i get up, before meals, when the kids go down, when i hit the rack. try to add some just cause, and when i get mad. try to read the Bible at least once a week, but it doesn't always happen. meditation would depend on your definition of the word. i do have a large number of patients that want to discuss something that is troubling them in their personal or spiritual lives, by the end of the day i think i get as much out of it as they do.
 
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aggiechiro said:
pray when i get up, before meals, when the kids go down, when i hit the rack. try to add some just cause, and when i get mad. try to read the Bible at least once a week, but it doesn't always happen. meditation would depend on your definition of the word. i do have a large number of patients that want to discuss something that is troubling them in their personal or spiritual lives, by the end of the day i think i get as much out of it as they do.
people meditate all kind of ways. i've been told that prayer is speaking God and meditation is listening. it's been done forever and all numerous cultures. it's real big in eastern religions.
 
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#10 ·
I don't meditate... I marinate and ruminate (like a cow)

I begin in the morning and pick out a verse when I'm sitting on the jon. I'll read that one verse a couple of times to get it in my head. A couple of times during the day I'll read the verse again, but never anything more. As I go through the day I think about what the verse says and what it means, and try to look for meaningful application in my life. It often surprises me that I think I know what a verse says, but at the end of the day I have a whole new understanding.

It also works well when you do this with other people- you each focus on the same verse each day and tell what it means to you.

Prayer comes at any time during the day, often driving in the car. Sometimes my prayers last a couple minutes, sometimes a couple of seconds. Always remember you never need to schedule time with God :thumbsup:
 
#11 ·
Daen East said:
Always remember you never need to schedule time with God
i receive benefits from when i disclipine myself to do certain things, such as prayer and meditation.

the point isn't to earn His favor or anything, but to try align my will w/ His.
 
#13 ·
Daen East said:
I don't meditate... I marinate and ruminate (like a cow)

I begin in the morning and pick out a verse when I'm sitting on the jon. I'll read that one verse a couple of times to get it in my head. A couple of times during the day I'll read the verse again, but never anything more. As I go through the day I think about what the verse says and what it means, and try to look for meaningful application in my life. It often surprises me that I think I know what a verse says, but at the end of the day I have a whole new understanding.

It also works well when you do this with other people- you each focus on the same verse each day and tell what it means to you.

Prayer comes at any time during the day, often driving in the car. Sometimes my prayers last a couple minutes, sometimes a couple of seconds. Always remember you never need to schedule time with God :thumbsup:
Well put. I would have to say, though, you should schedule time FOR God.
 
#14 ·
Whoops, didn't realize my last sentence could carry some ambiguity :tongue:

To clarify, you always have God on the line... You are never not able to talk to him. Having said that, I believe it is very important to designate time for God in your schedule, routines work well for me.
 
#15 ·
Daen East said:
Whoops, didn't realize my last sentence could carry some ambiguity :tongue:

To clarify, you always have God on the line... You are never not able to talk to him. Having said that, I believe it is very important to designate time for God in your schedule, routines work well for me.
didn't mean to come across attacking what you wrote and i understand what you met.

for me, i try not to live by my feelings, because they change regularly, but by my commitments. i don't do it everyday as i should. i go through periods of consolation and desolation and once through those times of desolation and pain, i grow.

today, for the most part, the good news is i don't stay in that pain and what doesn't work as long typically.
 
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