A new way of responding to God’s presence

You don’t have to be an expert. You don’t have to do a PhD in meditation in order to learn to meditate or in order to teach meditation. You only have to be learning, to be a disciple. I think it is for this reason that we could say that prayer deep prayer – the full picture of prayer, the full meaning of prayer – is our hope for today, globally.  We face a global crisis today on an unprecedented scale. The problems of the world are very great and very complex. What is needed is a new consciousness, a new way of looking, a new way of seeing. And this is how we, with our Christian faith, can contribute to that, because in contemplation that is exactly what we find: a new way of seeing God, a new way of responding to God’s presence in the world.

Meditating as a Christian by Laurence Freeman OSB