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Contemplative Practices
Contemplative practices invite us into being fully alive! God lives deep inside each of us, but oftentimes we are distracted, preoccupied, too busy, or focused on chasing other experiences or things to notice or remember.
Contemplation opens us to living within the tension of unknowing and the mysteries that permeate life. It guides us in discernment, navigating the changing seasons of our lives, stripping away delusions, supports our commitments and activities for justice, guides us in healthy and graceful relationships, and reconnects us to our Source. It allows individuals and our congregation to step into a sense of vitality, inspiration, joy, and peace that the world cannot give. We are invited into Healing and Wholeness.
Many spaces and activites at Peace allow for the Exploration of Contemplative Practice:
Abba Imma Qigong Lord’s Prayer
Walking the Labyrinth
Sanctuary & Gardens
The contemplative has nothing to tell you except to reassure you and say: if you dare to penetrate your own silence and advance without fear into the solitude of your own heart, and risk the sharing of that solitude with the lonely other who seeks God through you and with you, then you will truly recover the light and the capacity to understand what is beyond words and beyond explanations because it is too close to be explained: it is the intimate union in the depths of your own heart, of God’s spirit and your own secret inmost self, so that you and God are in all truth One Spirit.
–Thomas Merton, Monk