You're listening to Encounter, a simple daily podcast of sacred and mindful meditations

to help you encounter the divine presence of God all throughout your day.

If you want to have free access to the entire library of 500 meditations, I encourage you to download the Encountering Peace app where all the meditations are free, as they should be.

I will confess that I'm a huge fan of geocaching.

You've probably never heard of it, but it's an outdoor recreational activity

where people use a GPS or a mobile phone to hide and seek after little containers called

caches.

These little treasures are hidden at specific locations

marked by detailed coordinates, well, all over the world. And even though you know the coordinate

of the treasure cache, they are often well hidden, so you have to seek after them carefully and closely.

But do you ever have a hard time finding what you seek?

Even when you know it's close.

Well, this meditation from Psalm 42 is a reflection on seeking after what is hidden, even if it is hidden in plain sight

for you to find.

So where is your quiet place to focus?

Well, begin your meditation by letting this time become a mindful and sacred retreat

and allow your breathing to slow and your mind to relax

and your eyes move from open to closed start to center on the discovered presence of god

spirit and sun and begin to be mindful of their presence.

Continue in this time of reflection by responding to this passage from psalm chapter 27

and as i lead us responds simply lord god i seek after you may god bless the reading of His word. One thing I have asked of the Lord

is that I will seek after him and dwell in the house of the Lord in his presence all the days

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