Welcome to this time of meditation.
We're just taking a few short minutes here to slow our breathing down,
Calm our thoughts,
And listen to the voice of God.
Our prayer today will focus on words from Acts chapter 17.
So I invite you to sit in a comfortable position,
Maybe in a chair,
Maybe you'd like to lay down,
Maybe lean against a wall.
Take a few slow deep breaths.
Feel the air fill your lungs and be reminded of the spirit of God that fills you,
That animates you,
That energizes you.
And when you release the breath and feel the weight of your body return to the earth as you feel the weight of gravity pulling you down,
Be reminded of where God has placed you in this body,
In this time and place.
If you find that your mind is wandering,
Simply return to your breath and remind yourself that God is as close to you as your own breath.
Now hear the words from the apostle Paul.
God who made the world and all that is in it is the Lord of heaven and earth.
Because God doesn't live in sanctuaries made by human hands and isn't served by humans as if in need of anything.
Now God is the one who gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
From one person,
God created all of humankind to inhabit the entire earth and set the time for each nation to exist in the exact place where each nation should dwell.
God did this so that human beings would seek and reach out for and perhaps find the one who is not really far from any of us.
The one in whom we live and move and have our being.
As one of your poets has put it,
We too are God's children.
God is the one who gives life and breath and everything else.
Let your mind wander for just a moment.
Wonder life and breath and everything else.
Open yourself to gratitude for the gifts that God has so freely given to us.
Life and breath and everything else.
I invite you to repeat these words after me.
Life and breath and everything else.
Life and breath and everything else.
Life and breath and everything else.
The God who gives good gifts is not far off.
God is right here.
In God we live and move and have our being.
Rest today in God's great love.
Amen.
Go in peace.
