Meditations for Isolation - Peace and Presence (N218)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Rather than an interview based episode, we felt these strange times required something a little more meditative.

Each month for the last year Anna Robinson has been producing some wonderful meditations for our patrons. So we asked her to produce a short series for our main podcast feed, called Meditations for Isolation.

In this meditation, Anna reminds us we are not alone in finding ourselves weighed down by worry and concerns. Anna will lead us in contemplating divine presence and peace. We will then be led on an imaginative journey where we are invited to acknowledge our fears and concerns and give them to God. We will then be invited to rest in this peace and presence and receive what it is we need at this time.

David Blower compliments the meditation with original music.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Greetings, beloved listeners. We're going to be doing things a little bit differently over the next two weeks,
0:07.1	rather than our usual interview-based podcast we wanted to respond to current events by offering you something a little bit more reflective.
0:15.1	For those of you who financially support Nomad each month, you've gotten to know the voice of Anna Robinson.
0:26.6	It was Anna and her husband, Jim, who about 10 years ago introduced me and Hannah to the Christian contemplative tradition, something which profoundly shaped our faith over the subsequent years.
0:31.6	So I was really excited when about a year ago Anna agreed to start producing meditations each month for nomad supporters,
0:38.9	which we call Nomad Contemplations. So for the next two weeks, we're going to be uploading
0:44.2	a series of four meditations that Anna has produced called Meditations for Self-isolation.
0:50.6	The first one is a visualization meditation called peace and presence.
0:55.9	If you want meditations like this each month, then just click on the support tab on our website, nomadpodcast.co.com.
1:03.4	The whole team will be back in two weeks with a marathon Q&A special.
1:07.6	So I'll see you then, beloved listener.
1:30.3	Thank you. Q&A special. So I'll see you then, beloved listener. The The In this time of uncertainty, we may have many worries, fears and concerns bubbling up within us at different times.
2:08.8	We may find ourselves struggling to function well.
2:13.1	We'll find it challenging to stay present, to ourselves, to others, and to God.
2:21.4	We can find ourselves, perhaps drawn into contemplating the future
2:25.4	and worrying about what might happen, which can leave us disturbed, anxious and restless.
2:37.0	We may find it more difficult to find God in these times too,
2:47.0	to rest in God's divine peace and presence, or to know how to pray. Prayer means different things to different people. It means different things to me at different times to you.
2:53.5	Some of the ways I understand prayer to be are to be fully present and awakened to the divine
3:00.4	mystery. Prayer is oneness, a deep sense of connection to all things in that divine mystery.
3:12.7	And prayer as learning to abide in divine love.
3:19.9	Thomas Keating, the Trappist monk and Christian contemplative, wrote in his book consenting to God as God is.
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