HOW TO MEDITATE: The God Who Reaches for You

There is a hunger in the human chest that does not respond to food. It does not soften with sleep. It does not vanish under achievement or affection or the bright distractions of an entertained age. Pour wealth into it and it remains. Bury it under success and it claws its way back to the surface. It is the oldest hunger we have, older than language, older than memory, older than civilization itself. We were made to know something larger than ourselves. We were made to know Someone. This book is about how that hunger is finally satisfied. Not through striving. Not through technique. Not through climbing higher up some invisible spiritual ladder until our fingers brush the heels of God. It is satisfied because, two thousand years ago and from the beginning of time before that, God climbed down. He did what no philosophy could imagine and no religion could engineer. He came near. And He is still near, available to anyone who would learn how to be still long enough to notice. What follows is an unhurried walk through the practice of meditation, and through prayer as the kind of communion it was always meant to be. We will look honestly at what the great religious systems of the world ask of their followers, and learn how to dwell with the God who has already dwelled among us. By the end, the words "meditate" and "pray" will not feel like religious chores. They will feel like coming home. You will not find techniques in these pages that promise to empty your mind. You will find an invitation to fill it. You will not find a path that demands you ascend. You will find a Savior who has already descended. You will not be handed another burden to carry on top of the ones you came in with. You will be shown how to set the burdens down. "Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." That sentence is the only door into this book. Walk through it.

Pagina's: 131, Paperback, Independently published