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.

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Mother Teresa once wrote that we need to find God, but he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.

God is the friend of silence, even see how in nature trees, flowers, and grass, they all grow in silence.

See the stars, the moon, and the sun. How they all move in silence.

We need silence for God to touch our soul. God wrote the gospel not in the Bible alone,

but all of his creation. The gospel can be discovered in the trees, in the flowers.

Every sunrise, each sunset, and in the blanket of stars overhead.

But when was the last time you sat and looked at the stars?

I pray this meditation from Genesis chapter 15 will encourage you to pause along the way

for creation to remind you of the Creator, for the stars in the sky to tell you of eternity.

The blanket of lights to inspire you to praise Elohim with awe-inspired reverence.

So to begin your time of meditation, find yourself conceding to this holy time in place.

Imagine laying beneath the stars of heaven.

Allow your breathing to settle, and your eyes to close without effort.

And start to become mindful of the eternal presence in creation of the Holy Father, the Sun,

and the Holy Spirit.

Continue on in this time of mindfulness by listening and replying to this passage from Hebrews

chapter 11, and as I lead us, respond, Lord God, may all of your creation draw me closer to you.

May the Lord bless the hearing and reading of his word.

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