Stillness

Take a breath. 

Take another. 

Take a deeper breath and exhale over 3 seconds.

Repeat and exhale over 5 seconds, 7, 10...

Select from one of these phrases or choose your own:

• I want to know you God.

• May Your kingdom come.

• I will, with God's help.

• Thank you, God.

Make room for God's spirit and grace to enter into your body.

Wherever you are:

• Stretch your arms and hands and fingers above your head. Hold for 10 seconds. Release.

• Reach from side to side. 

• Make yourself the smallest you can by scrunching your body into a tight ball.

• Make yourself the biggest you can by stretching up and around.

• Drop your jaw and hold it.

• Clench your hands and stretch your fingers. Place your palms down. Place your palms up.

• Roll your shoulders. 

• Elongate your back by sitting up tall, pretending there is a string that is lifting you up.

Be still in God’s presence as you pray with this version of Isaiah 43

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Be still in God’s presence as you pray with this version of Psalm 46

Explore the Bible as poetry by reading through some Psalms that you like.

• Choose one to carry with you in prayer today.

• Search for them using the online Book of Common Prayer (BCP)!

 

Read Gerard Manley Hopkin's God’s Grandeur aloud in your house. What sounds strike you as prayerful in this piece?

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Read this Mary Oliver's Lead and listen for the prayers that the Holy Spirit is praying in you, with sighs too deep for words.

Consider visiting a special spot. Check out our Columbarium or Labyrinth.

1. Sit or walk deliberately.

2. Breathe with intention.