LifePath Church
  • Home
  • Get To Know Us
    • Who We Are
    • What We Do
    • What We Value
    • What We Believe
  • Get Connected
    • Celebration Gathering
    • Listen Online
    • Children and Teens
    • Meal Communities
    • LIFE Seminars
  • Get Involved
    • Racial Justice
    • Local Mission
    • Global Mission
    • Giving
  • Together for Good
  • Calendar
  • Latest News

Together for good

simple reflections on community, spiritual formation, and the way of Jesus

Crowded Hearts

2/4/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.
-Jesus, Mark 4:7


I'm away for a prayer retreat for a few days, so today's offering is simple and quiet. I'm quite aware that many people don't have the luxury of spending a few days in silence and prayer. Yet even in my own life, there have been so many times that I have neglected God's gift of stillness. Of limits. Of silence. But it is available to us all, throughout each day, if we choose it. 

Our hearts are filled with many things, like a busy train station of distractions, worries, expectations, insecurities, and hopes. Yet Jesus peacefully fills the quiet spaces of our lives when we empty out the competing voices. He sets our hearts at rest. So I invite you today, to find space to stop and pray this prayer. Do it is slowly, with your phone off and your spirit attentive, and receive the gift of God. 
It was written by Thomas Merton.

Uncrowd my heart, oh God
Until Silence speaks
   in your still small voice;
turn me from the hearing of words,
and the making of words,
and the confusion of much speaking,
to listening

    waiting
    stillness
    silence.
 

Amen.
​
Peace,
Keith


0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    January 2023
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018

    RSS Feed

Lifepath Church

Copyright © 2022
Contact Us
Photo used under Creative Commons from Pascal Volk
  • Home
  • Get To Know Us
    • Who We Are
    • What We Do
    • What We Value
    • What We Believe
  • Get Connected
    • Celebration Gathering
    • Listen Online
    • Children and Teens
    • Meal Communities
    • LIFE Seminars
  • Get Involved
    • Racial Justice
    • Local Mission
    • Global Mission
    • Giving
  • Together for Good
  • Calendar
  • Latest News