Meditations?

[anjelica]

What say we start a Meditations thread? Can either be short or longer ones. I wrote some stuff today. Not dead short but not dead long - well, in my book anyway LOL

 

[Tigger45]

Subscribing. This ought to be interesting

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

you start angelica

 

[anjelica]

OK. It is a bit dark in my bedroom right now so might have. A job reading it but will try. My thoughts went all over the place. Hope you are open to it.

To give some background I as sitting outside a very ancient isolated country Church in England (dates from Saxon times, (so, 10 hundreds)l. Surrounded by ancient yew trees, oak trees etc. Was VERY windly. All ancient Churches in England have. Bell ir two or three. This Church has two. They are ancient bells. They called the people to orater, announced deaths, etc. So many rings for a man, woman or child. Would sound out loud and clear over the fields. Sounded out the Angelus and everyone working in the fields would bow their heads and say the Angelus. The bell has been called the Voice of God. But my meditation went all over the place LOL. Will post this then type it in. which might take some time cos of my blindness,

 

[anjelica]

As I sit here, feeling in some mystical way, a connection with the ancient past, i can almost hear the bell. In times past it sounded out loud and clear over all the fields - for miles around. It has been called the Voice of God, and surely it is, with its plaintive tone. I hear it calling people to prayer , to Mass, announcing deaths. So many for a man, so many for a woman, so many for a child. I hear it sounding out the Angelus four times a day, and I see stooped figures in the fields, bowing their heads, resting on their implements.

The bell is so clear, but where else do we hear the Voice God? The bell was man made, many many years ago , and there were not always bells. How do we know the Voice of God?

Over the centuries things have changed. The ways we live have changed. We work differently, at different things. We dress differently. We live differently, in different kinds of places. We eat differently. Mi am thinking thousands of years back, even before. Christ. Neolithic man. Stone Age man. God was still present in the world then. How could. His Voice be heard?

What is the same about humankind then as is now? What was the same in the world then as is now? For God, being what He is, eternal, must have been able to be heard then, too.

Nature was the same then. As I sit here I can hear the birds. If I could see, which I cannot, I would be able to see the trees and the flowers. And in those things I would be able to know the wonder and the. glory of nature - God's Creation. Something in it speaks deep to my heart . That has not and cannot change through time. It cannot be affected by the passage of time.

I hear the wind roaring now. It picks up speed. I can no longer hear the birds. But within that roar, which will eventually die down, there is silence - within which is the Voice of God.

So many voices are all around me. Insistent voices. People expressing their opinions, saying things like they are right. They believe in this, they believe in that. I do it this way, I do it that way. The elevation of self. Amid the chattering, what is the Voice of God saying? What is the One Thing that He is saying?

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

So many voices are all around me. Insistent voices. People expressing their opinions, saying things like they are right. They believe in this, they believe in that. I do it this way, I do it that way. The elevation of self. Amid the chattering, what is the Voice of God saying? What is the One Thing that He is saying?

powerful writing angelica

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

what is the voice of God saying?

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

what is He saying to us now?

 

[anjelica]

I wish I knew Paul. Sometimes I think I know, sometimes I don't

 

[anjelica]

Can so
Meone else do one now? Any length. Very brief, or long. Doesn't matter

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

deleted meditation, sorry folks, it is too "Mickey Mouse" on reflection

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

Above can be done chanting MA-RA-NA-THA. (the Lord is coming)
Ma- breathe in
Ra-breathe out
Na-breathe in
Tha-breathe out

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

I'm gonna cop it from mainstream catholics now who hate meditation.
or the centering prayer group for not doing it right.

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

 

[anjelica]

WOW Paul. I'm pleased you came! WONDERFUL. Wonderful and oh so true meditation etc and vid. I am with you all the way.

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

I fear that meditation I made is flawed, "inviting Satan in" as some one said. I dunno.

 

[tadoflamb]

I don't know if this counts, but this has been going through my head constantly for the past two days.

Hence, now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

 

[anjelica]

I like it tad.

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

angelica, if I can just go off topic here. I noticed you giving assistance to someone on an OBOB thread about struggling with their faith, having doubts. I'd like to discuss that here and will make another thread.

 

[anjelica]

Ok Paul. Go ahead. I'm probably as myddled as anybody really, but at least we can share our muddles
Not sure if I was giving advice or just saying how I cope with it. Not always the way someone else would though. We're all different. I am a mess most of the time LOL