Hi friends, welcome to a time of being still and being loved. My name is Alyssa.

And today we're going to do something a little different.

So I ask that you would just trust the Holy Spirit that is with you and in you to guide you and lead you into a deep time of rest.

This is not a time to study the Bible or try to grip at understanding God, but rather letting

go of all expectations

and giving yourself over to the presence of God that is peace.

We're gonna do a biblical transcendent meditation.

And what that means is I'm gonna read a passage of scripture.

Again, you are not to study the scripture.

You're just going to let it fall upon you.

Think in pictures.

See Jesus in the story.

Be an onlooker.

Observe the text.

Rest into the text.

And then after that time of reading, I'm going to suggest words that we will

repeat to ourselves a phrase over and over for the remaining time of the meditation.

Again this is not about striving or gripping or grasping for anything.

It's to fall back and receive God in his word and hold to his word,

to the invitation that he is extending to us through his word.

As we repeat the phrase over and over for the remaining time together.

So this will feel a little odd because you're not going to hear me talking and I think you need that.

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