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.

Have you ever felt alone in a crowd? Walking down an unfamiliar street yet

very familiar with the fear you feel, isolation. Far from home, you feel vulnerable,

lost yet too afraid to ask strangers for directions.

And those you see around you, those you may seek for counsel and guidance,

swell, they don't seem the sort to willing to help. Is it just you or others standing in your way,

blocking you from finding your way? How do you feel when you desperately want answers that have

no one around you to help? And those that are around you seem only bent on taking you further

from the truth that you seek. Will this meditation from the first chapter of Psalms

will help you steer away from the counsel of the ungodly and delight instead in the law of the Lord?

So to begin your meditation, just settle now into a place of quiet stillness and tranquility.

Begin to relax your feet and your legs. Just notice your arms and your hands relaxing

and your neck and your shoulders and even your eyes. Imagine being a beautiful fruit tree firmly

planted by a cool stream. Be still and open yourself to God. Open your heart to praise.

Give glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning

is now and will be forever. Dwell with God now in silent reflection.

Let this continuing time of silence now bloom to a time of prayer, a prayer of presence,

a prayer of satisfaction in the counsel and wisdom of God.

So encounter God now in your way from your heart and in your time.

...