I just came across a quote of Fr. Richard Rohr's that I saved: We cannot attain the presence of God because we’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness.
I'd say the absence of awareness is entirely due to our neglecting the daily discipline that is required to attain a belief in...to experience, actually...the presence of God in our life.
The necessary discipline that I have found necessary is to every day, several times a day, make myself available to God. Just make myself available. I kinda keep "thank you" or "welcome" running in my mind whenever I'm not talking or reading...to fill in the spaces of my life so to speak.
On occasion I will sit down. Get quiet. Think, "Here I am, God. Speak or not...my ears are yours to use." If no click comes within that time, I stop and come back later and try again.
Personally, I am not a believer in a 20- or 30-minute period of trying...for me that turns the clock into the God of my understanding, and no clock and I have ever made conscious contact. But that's just me.
I learned early on that it is not necessary to take more than two, three, four minutes...minutes!...daily to sit and wait on the Lord. We know when we've made contact, and time does not exist then. It is in the contact that we become aware. We then walk away, uplifted, knowing a Soul at peace.
Thank you.
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