Day 4 – Centering Prayer

Centering Prayer is simply opening to your higher being. Opening to God, if that’s your belief system. Or, for some, it’s opening to what we might refer to as a higher self, a higher power, or the “Big Mystery”, to that which is beyond thought, choosing or feeling. Or it might be an opening toward our inner beings, the source of our very lives, the timeless, the formless. The Christian contemplative heritage has used Centering prayer since the sixth century but in the 1970’s, it was honed into a simple method of prayer by a group of Trappist monks. It’s quite simply, quiet contemplation of your intent, in the presence of the divine.

“Silence is God’s first language. So, to know God, we need to learn how to be silent.” ~Father Thomas Keating