It was Thomas Merton who once said, meditation and contemplative prayer is not so much

a way to find God as a way of resting in Him whom we have found, who loves us, who is

near to us, who comes to us, to draw us to Himself.

That's a killer quote, Morgan.

Welcome back to the Wild at Hard Podcast here in the week of May 3rd, Morgan Snyder and

John in the studio, picking up with part two of a series that Morgan and his wife Sherry

did on the Become Good Soil Podcast on Contemplative Prayer.

And there's a whole world of sort of deeper discipleship track here at Wild at Hard

in Morgan's BGS world, Become Good Soil World.

And we wanted to lift some of that, bring it into the larger listening audience here.

If you miss part one, you might want to go back and do that because it's a combination

of some teaching and then some spiritual exercises.

And this week Sherry's going to use the daily prayer, which is, and it's just been a

lifesaver over the years.

It's something that we developed over time, largely around our life in God, right at the

front of the war, right at the front of the war for the human heart.

We were just experiencing so much interference and chaos and harassment and distraction and

just the difficulty of how do I center in Jesus every morning.

So the daily prayer is something that kind of has been through like 16 different iterations

it gets edited and changed and added to, but you're going to hear Sherry refer to it,

take you into it and it's a rich part of the prayer tradition here in our little fellowship.

So with Thomas Merton's thoughts in mind, here we go into part two on Contemplative

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