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Exploring Peace Meditations
Seeking peace in your life? Exploring Peace Meditations offers you Soul Care through guided prayer and Christian meditation. Caring for your soul is vital to living a peace-filled and purposeful life. Join author, yoga teacher, spiritual director, and host Whitney R. Simpson for a regular dose of peace and calm for your breath, body, and spirit as you explore these practical meditations. Using yoga teachings and ancient spiritual tools such as the Prayer of Examen, Lectio Divina, and Breath Prayer allows Whitney to companion you on your spiritual formation journey. Are you a Peace Seeker? Join our community at ExploringPeace.com/community.
Exploring Peace Meditations
An Advent Pause: Peace
Let's prepare our hearts for the coming of Christ at Christmas, allowing us to pause and embrace peace through deep breaths and mindful meditation. With Psalm 29:11, you're invited to find a comfortable posture, soften your gaze, and let the words of Scripture fill you with strength and peace.
Together, we'll explore a breath prayer from Fully Human, Fully Divine, inviting God's Spirit to fill us with peace this Advent season.
Pause and be filled with God's peace.
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Hi, this is Whitney and you're listening to Exploring Peace Meditations. We are in the season of Advent. This is a time when we prepare our hearts, our minds, our spirits for the coming of Christ at Christmas. Our focus this week is peace, god's gift of peace. And so, as you begin to find a comfortable posture to simply pause whether it's a seated meditation, a reclined posture or your favorite yoga shape just take a moment and hold that word peace. And I'll take a moment to remind you that, if you're longing for more peace, you can find more prayers and meditations like this one at exploringpeacecom. You can join the community that supports these free prayers and meditations at exploringpeacecom slash community. You can find me and my books at WhitneyRSimpsoncom. So I hope by now you've found a posture, you've taken a few deep breaths, you've softened your shoulders away from your ears, and you've relaxed your jaw, your face, your eyes. Take a moment and close your eyes or soften your gaze and then notice your breath For the next breath. Breathe in fully through your nose and exhale completely through your mouth as you breathe.
Speaker 1:Listen to Psalm 2911 in the Common English Bible. Let the Lord give strength to His people. Let the Lord bless His people with peace. Peace. You, my friends, are the Lord's people, and so I invite you to pause with me as we hold this word peace today, this breath, prayer I share with you is from my book, fully Human, fully Divine, and we're simply going to breathe in spirit and breathe out. Fill me with peace. And so, as we pause in the quiet over the next few minutes with your inhale, ask God today fill me with peace. These words may shift, they may evolve, they may change from the ones I offer you, but breathe and listen and pause, pause with God's peace, asking God to fill you with that peace today.
Speaker 1:Inhale, spirit, exhale. Fill me with peace. Repeat this over the next few moments Spirit, fill me with peace. I'm going to receive God's peace in your in this season. Take a moment and see if you can feel, sense, see or notice peace within yourself, not because you are the master of peace, but because God is. What does it feel like to embody God's today? Loving God, thank you for the gift of peace. Thank you for the gift of Jesus. Please continue to pour your spirit upon us this season. Pour your Spirit upon us this season. Fill us with your peace. In your holy name we pray. Amen, until next time. May God's peace be with you.
