Deepening Prayer
After many years of experimenting with various schools of meditation and prayer “techniques,” I have come to value four aspects of the spiritual life as indispensable: awareness of and reliance on the “great cloud of witnesses” who are our ancestors in faith; gratitude as primary; intercession as mystical union; and a prayer that is above all an awareness of the inestimable gift of God-with-us, with no words at all.
This retreat explores those four values in four sessions using Scripture, poetry, art, and journaling:
- Blessed Communion: Praying with All the Company of Heaven
- Thanks Be to God: Gratitude as a Spiritual Discipline
- Close to the Heart of God: Intercession as a Contemplative Practice
- Too Deep for Words: Silence After All