The Contemplative Way: Quietly Savoring God's Presence

We live in an age of bombardment of the senses, ceaselessly assaulted by traffic noise, canned music, the ubiquitous waiting-room TV, coworkers’ conversations. Even those treasured moments of quiet prayer time before worship have been snatched from us by conversations all around us in the church.

The sanity solution? Contemplative prayer. Throw away the script, the shuffling through prayer books for just the “right” words, and accept the fact that God simply wants you to gaze at him while h...