Week 4 - God’s presence in my life

I begin my prayer by placing myself in God’s presence and becoming aware that He is gazing at me with love.

Music: “Be still” The London Fox Taizé Choir

Be still, be still

Know that I am God

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I look at my own life story in order to discover where God was present in my life until now. My life with its good and it’s bad days, with moments of light and also moments of darkness.

And I might wish to ask:

That I have the courage to see my life as it really is with all there is to it. That I can accept my life as it has been until now. That I can see how God has been present in my life as it has so far unfolded.

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Psalm 139

O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
 you discern my thoughts from far away.

You search out my path and my lying down,
 and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
 O Lord, you know it completely.

You hem me in, behind and before,
    and lay your hand upon me.

God has searched me and known me. He knows everything about me. When I hear this, what goes through my mind? But also: how does it make me feel?

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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
 it is so high that I cannot attain it.

Where can I go from your spirit?
 Or where can I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
 if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.

Escape from God’s spirit. Would I really like that or not? What does this mean to me?

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For it was you who formed my inward parts;
 you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
 Wonderful are your works; that I know very well.

That really is something! Me, an awe-inspiring miracle!

Can I let this truly sink in?

Can I honestly thank God for my existence, for my life?

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Music: “Be still” The London Fox Taizé Choir