I have regularly taken time for prayer through the years. Usually praying the office solo. My time in seminary ingrained in me the beauty of the rhythm of the psalter.

At the end of last year beginning of this year, I began replacing praying the office occasionally with simply quiet meditation. More and more as this year unfolded and Covid-19 had its impact, I’ve grown dependent on silent, private meditation for at least 20 minutes once a day… occasionally twice if the day allows the time.

It quiets my mind down. Resets all the reactionary buttons that can be pushed and allows me to pay full attention to Source/the Divine/God and listen to that call and to respond.

Too much of our life, of the media in our life, is about hearing information only to react to it.

To refresh my soul, I don’t seek to hear so much as to listen to that still quiet whisper of the divine calling to me to follow and respond in helping reflect more of the healing loving and rejuvenating energy of divine in my life and words and actions.