Contemplative at Home

In the spirit of the imaginative contemplation, I invite you into this guided meditation based on Matthew 4:18-20.

May you see Jesus in a slightly new way here.

Blessings as you pray.

Lissy

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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Dear Friends,Today a meditation with the gifts of winter. In this guided meditation, you will imagine yourself in a winter scene, listening to the wintry landscape as it teaches you about how to live in the cold and fallow seasons.

Job knew that the natural world understood the fundamental truth of things, understood who God is and how God works

Job: 12:7 But ask the animals, and they will teach you,    or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,    or let the fish in the sea inform you.9 Which of all these does not know    that the hand of the Lord has done this?

And John Scotus Eriugena, the medieval theologian and celitc Christian saw all of creation as sacred text.

So today we ask, together with contemplatives down the ages, what might the winter of January have to teach me?

As always, if you don’t feel safe in a meditation, do bring your attention out of that space and return to the breath, or something else that feels calm and loving.

Blessings, dear ones.

L

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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In this 18 minute meditation, you are invited to remember the baptism of Jesus, and to explore where you are at just now, how you stand on the brink of something new and possible, and how you might like to open yourself to the Spirit of God at this juncture. You may want to use this meditation to pray about the next few months, or the next year.

No matter who we are, or where we are headed, we all need to hear the words “you are my precious one. You are beloved.” 

If you aren’t familiar with Jan Richardson’s poem Beloved is Where we Begin, I commend it to you.

The text in this meditation is from Matthew 3:13-17, NIV.

Blessings, always, as you pray. 

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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PS There are a few minutes of silence at the end of this, please forgive! Episode is 17 mins.

This is a 20-minute meditation with the magi, who studied the stars, and followed a star whose rising signified the birth of the King of the Jews. 

This mindful meditation gives you space to prayerfully reflect on Matthew 2:1-3 & 7-12, the visit of the magi, and to consider what insights the account may have for you. I find this a particularly helpful new year meditation, though it is by no means specific to a particular time of year.

We don’t know that the bearers of gold, frankinsense and myrrh were kings, or how many of them there there were. What we do know is that they brought three gifts, that they were astrologers, likely Zoroastrian, and that they came from the east.

I am reminded in my annual reading of Elizabeth Goudge’s children’s book I Saw Three Ships, that gold, frankincense and myrrh may represent wealth, worship and death, three profound gifts we may offer to the Giver of all.

Blessings on you.

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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All music by Pete Hatch.

A meditation for the fourth week of Advent, with the prophecies of Isaiah 11.

Blessings as you pray. ??

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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Further details www.contemplativeathome.com.

All music by Pete Hatch.

Dear Friends–

A meditaiton with Isaiah 9

Advent blessings ?????

Lissy

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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All music by Pete Hatch. 

Advent is a time for preparing, for making space (though as Tsh Oxenrieder says in her Advent book “Shadow and Light”, to be still, to make space is an almost subversive act our culture’s December).

I do pray that you might find some space today to breathe, to be still, to listen and to ask yourself the question, what might it mean for my heart to prepare room for the Christchild?

Much love and every blessing as you pray today

L

PS: Here we pray with Isaiah 40:3-5. The whole chapter is worth your Advent meditation time!

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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All music by Pete Hatch.

The liturgical year has closed and a new year dawns with Advent, as we, laden with sorrow and suffering within and without, long for healing and restoration, for justice, for wholeness, for peace.

Isaiah 35, (read here from the Message), points to a promise of life, of blossoming and singing and joy. It invites us to dare to hope, in the bleakest of places.

Come, thou long-expected Jesus

Born to set thy people free

From our fears and sins release us

Let us find our rest in Thee.

Advent blessings and much love,

Lissy

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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All music by Pete Hatch.

This is a meditation with Luke 6:46-49.

I hope that this slow and mindful approach to the story of the houses with – and without – foundations will open something new and relevant for you today. 

Wishing you peace like a river.

Lissy x

PS: I’ve had a few conversations this week with people who mentioned using these meditations with a small group, so I’ve added a couple of brief ‘if you’re in a group’ prompts to this recording.

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

Sign up for Lissy’s weekly newsletter “The Contemplative Window” or join our Facebook group here

Support the show by sharing it with a friend, rating it on your preferred podcast platform, or by becoming a member for just a few $ or £ per month. Thank you so much.

Further details www.contemplativeathome.com.

All music by Pete Hatch.

A meditation on Mark 10:46-52

As Jesus, his disciples and many others leave Jericho together, they pass a man begging on the side of the road. He causes an awkward disturbance, shouting for attention. 

His name is Bartimaeus.

As we pray with this passage, may it become new.

Perhaps you’ll have the space to become curious about what is awkwardly shouting for attention in your life.

Perhaps you’ll have the grace to hear Jesus ask: What do you want me to do for you?

Grace and peace as you pray.

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

Sign up for Lissy’s weekly newsletter “The Contemplative Window” or join our Facebook group here

Support the show by sharing it with a friend, rating it on your preferred podcast platform, or by becoming a member for just a few $ or £ per month. Thank you so much!

Further details www.contemplativeathome.com.

All music by Pete Hatch.