You're listening to Encounter, a simple daily podcast to help you find this sacred in

the ordinary.

We have 100 meditation episodes on this podcast, but if you want to listen for free to the

entire library of 500, I encourage you to download the Encountering Peace mobile app where

all the meditations are free as they should be.

For eggs and chills, it's a hearty, thick bowl of my grandmother's chicken and dumplings.

After a long journey home after traveling, it's meeting my wife at our favorite restaurant

for chicken enchiladas.

And after a long weekend, riding in a cabin in the woods, it's, well, it's chicken

fried steak, all of them creations of God to bring me comfort and high cholesterol.

But isn't it amazing how we so often turn to food and drink for comfort?

What do you turn to for comfort when you are hungry and thirsty?

Well this meditation from Matthew chapter 5 is about hungry less for what the world provides

to what nourishes us eternally, seeking satisfaction not in the drink but in God, finding

delight in heavenly nourishment that will never leave us hungry or thirsty again.

So to begin, whether at the light of dawn or the long shadows of evening, allow the

next 15 minutes to be a gift of quiet contemplation, a respite from what the world offers to turn

to enjoyment from what God offers.

As your eyes begin to move without effort from open and to a soft gaze and out of closed,

practice center on this present place for a satisfying moment, this time of divine gratification,

and a silent whispered prayer of enjoyment with God, spirit and sun.

So in prayer by responding to this passage from 1 John chapter 4, and as I lead us,

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