I am planning some teaching sessions on prayer. I love the description someone has of meditation. He said it was 'descending WITH the mind into the heart'.
Some people engage life directly from the heart - we say of them, "They are all heart." Others engage life mostly from the head. They ponder, analyse, calculate, question, study and learn. They can be considered too 'detatched'. But for them, the heart can burst into flame at any point. It is a case of looking for, or falling over the doorways.
Clearly for me, a head person, water is a doorway to heart encounters. And sometimes a phrase, in the Scriptures or something I am reading, will just captivate and hold me and everything within me is suddenly vibrating with joy, or wonder, or tenderness or love.
Over these last three weeks, with some visits away, then some days at home - I have found it hard to find those doorways. I 'went with the flow' of those I was with... but it left me feeling rather empty. I must, next holiday season, be less accomodating to others, and more to the need of these doorways to my heart. I am bouyed by the knowledge that in a few weeks I will be on a 6 day retreat where I expect more heart encounters to occur.
I need to go back to letting the Scripture assist me in 'descending with the mind into the heart' - a simple but effective way of meeting the Lord in his word.
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