Centering Prayer

Have you spent some time in silence today? If you haven’t, I highly recommend you make the space in your daily routine, even if just for a few minutes, to sit in silence. As we center ourselves in the Divine, we gain a new vantage point on life.

You can have a deep self-awareness that isn’t easily shaken by that jerk who cuts you off in traffic, the long line at the grocery store, or the day you don’t get the big promotion, but it will require some spiritual discipline. When we start to catch ourselves turning molehills into mountains it is one of the early indicators that it’s time to reallign our lives. I have personally found that the practice of centering prayer is a great place to start…

“Those who have a deep and real inner life
are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life“

– Evelyn Underhill

 How to practice centering prayer:

1. Find a word or phrase that will be your anchor point during your time of contemplation (“Jesus”, “Love”, “Maranatha”, “I am a child of GOD”, or something personally significant to you)
2. Sit or kneel comfortably (but not in a way that you could fall asleep.. don’t worry, it happens to the best of us)
3. Open with a prayer to invite the Spirit to protect and guide your time of centering
4. When distractions arise, return to your anchor word
5. Repeat step #4.
6. Repeat step #4 (click here if you need help clearing the monkeys out of your prayers)