Be Still

A plum tree blooming this morning  that wasn't blooming yesterday.
These weeks of isolating ourselves are a good time to try going beyond prayers that are written or memorized, a perfect time to try meditation and contemplation. Some of you have already been praying in those ways.  In the past several days I've shared with you here experiences that I have had meditating on Scripture.  To oversimplify, meditation is thinking about God and talking to God in our own words; contemplation is letting God draw us into Godself.  Someone just sitting on their porch or looking out a window or walking in a woods might well be lost in contemplation.  This kind of prayer is God's work. All that's required of us is making ourselves available to God.