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I was listening to a cd of Thomas Keating while I walked this morning.  He was talking about centering prayer.  Actually he was talking about the scriptural instructions that we go into our room, shut the door and talk to God in the quiet and secrecy of the room and He will talk back to us in secret as well.

When I pray, I am often interrupted by the noise in my head or the pull of my surroundings.  It is hard to shut out the noise of worry, excitement, anticipation, analysis, rumination, worry or just plain nonsense.  The dog is barking. My stomach is rumbling.  It’s cold. It’s hot. I’m doing this wrong. Is the time almost up?

Centering prayer is a way of shutting out all the attachments of my mind so that I am listening only to the silence.  It is here that my heart speaks and His heart listens and the Holy Spirit speaks back to back to me in His secret language.  Often I don’t know what it is that I have said or how God has responded, but when I give Him my time and listen unconditionally in this way, somehow my life gets better and I know the wonder of His love.

How do you listen to God?