Encounter meditations
As a Christian of always been hesitant to meditate. Because I was taught and saw meditation being done by blue new age people and advocated to five some strange dudes I shied away from for a long time. The whole concept of emptying your mind was appealing to me that after reading up on new age things I was afraid of what would fill my mind once I got identity. Following their track anyways.
In the past few years I revisited the decision to not meditate formally. One of the podcast posts that I listen to for a while was the shilling for the calm. The column packages a lot of him him meditations of daily meditations that are different every day. They package in some music and some relaxing ambience stuff which time into. I have some bedtime stories and other things that I don't really use them but every once in the hall was no one just to relax not to go to sleep.
But the call map is very much a self oriented thing. They talk about the person being the way to change. And as a Christian life use the call map I feel somewhat guilty at times because I feel like I might be doing the wrong thing. But then I am careful and don't fall into thinking that I shouldn't fall into. Hopefully.
A while back I found the encounter podcast. When I founded it was called encountering peace. But they have since shortened it. It's a Christian meditation podcast!
I was skeptical when I gave it a try. It's very relaxing and contemplative, which means it's too slow and sleepy for my wife. But I enjoy it! The host focuses on Scripture and messages from the Bible and does a good job repeating it so that I get a verse or thought that I can remember throughout the day and that it helps me. They have an app also that I use, though it seems to drain my battery a little bit too much if I forget to exit it completely.
But I've enjoyed doing the Encounter meditations as a devotion thing in the mornings for a couple of months now. From what I've learned prayer is talking to God and meditation is us listening to God. I don't know if that's too "new age" are not, but it has helped me slow down and take 15 minutes to listen to God. And the messages in the Encounter meditations have many times been right on what I needed to hear for the day.
Like today's: talk about a runner that her dream was to compete and win this big big race, she won every other race leading up to it that year. She got to the big one that she really wanted to win and was in second with the person in front of her quite a bit in front of her but still within sight. The person running in front of her stumbled and from exhaustion fell to the ground. And instead of just running by her this young lady stopped, helped the other runner stand again, and then helped her cross the finish line. That's a message that I like because I've tried to put the "I am second message" from Jesus into action in my life. It helped me focus on that idea rather than be angry about something recently.
So I'm enjoying the Encounter meditations. If you want to check them out and follow the links below. Enjoy!
