{"id":21762,"date":"2016-11-18T23:40:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T03:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=21762"},"modified":"2026-07-19T05:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:39:16","slug":"remembering-the-enticing-appeal-of-richard-foster-and-beth-moores-be-still-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/remembering-the-enticing-appeal-of-richard-foster-and-beth-moores-be-still-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Enticing Appeal of Richard Foster and Beth Moore’s Be Still Film"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Be Still DVD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2006, a DVD film was released by Fox Entertainment called Be Still<\/em>. Lighthouse Trails wrote extensively about it at the time, warning our readers that the DVD was an infomercial for contemplative prayer. Recently, a caller who very much understood the deceptive dynamics of the contemplative prayer (i.e., Spiritual Formation) movement, reminded us about the film, and we e-mailed her a copy of all the transcripts (we had transcribed the entire film in 2006). The film includes Richard Foster, Catholic convert Peter Kreeft, Dallas Willard, Beth Moore<\/a>, Priscilla Shirer, Michelle McKinney Hammon, Max Lucado,<\/a> and Calvin Miller. You can read some of our previous coverage here. <\/a><\/p>\n

You can be sure that in the last 10 years since Be Still<\/em> was released, the contemplative prayer movement has grown by leaps and bounds, and we have no doubt that this film has had a lot to do with this spread.<\/p>\n

Below we have posted portions of the transcript from three of the segments (there were six altogether) of the Be Still<\/em> film. You may need to read between the lines to understand the message that is being promoted because the film was\u00a0 a seductive and enticing infomercial to draw people into the practice of contemplative prayer without coming right out and saying what contemplative prayer really entails. (After all, viewers could get specific instructions later by reading the writings of these people in the film).<\/p>\n

Within these quotes, the italicized words are added by LT for emphasis.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cContemplative Prayer: The Divine Romance Between God and Man\u201d
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Narrator:<\/strong><\/p>\n

We live in\u00a0 frenzied chaotic world under a constant siege of business and noise. The weapons of mass distraction are everywhere. We are bombarded by millions of advertisements daily. The Christian community is not exempt. We were designed to experience fullness of joy, yet many only experience fullness of schedule. Where can we go to find rest and peace?<\/p>\n

Be still and know that I am God. We find peace in God\u2019s presence. We get to know God better through prayer. Prayer is relationship and two-way communication with God. Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. But how can we experience abundance if we don\u2019t learn to slow down? We need to stop and quiet ourselves to spend time in real relationship with God.<\/p>\n

Contemplation is different<\/em> from other types of Christian prayer. Contemplative prayer involves less telling God what we want to happen in our lives and more listening for God\u2019s call to us in our heart through Scripture. As we develop the inward attentiveness to God\u2019s divine whisper, we begin to experience His presence more throughout the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is Contemplative Prayer?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Richard Foster, author \u201cPrayer\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemplative prayer is listening prayer<\/em>. It is attentiveness. You know how our children will talk with us and sometimes we wish that they would just listen to us. Now, that\u2019s what contemplative prayer is. It\u2019s being all ears to what the Father has to say to us.<\/p>\n

[French Catholic mystic] Nicholas Grou said, \u201cO Divine Master, teach me this mute language<\/em> which says so much.\u201d That\u2019s the idea. It\u2019s very simple, isn\u2019t it? That we become attentive to God. God\u2019s interested in us, what we have to say. We learn to become interested\u00a0 in what God has to say to us.<\/p>\n

Priscilla Shirer, author of \u201cHe Speaks to Me: Preparing to Hear the Voice of Go”:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of my prayer time is filled up with what I\u2019m saying to Him, as opposed to just being quiet and actually giving him an opportunity to speak to me. And of course I\u2019ve thought about hearing the voice of God all my life, and I\u2019ve thought about wanting to hear Him, but it never occurred to me that I needed to consciously go into His presence<\/em> with my mouth closed, giving Him an opportunity to get a word in edgewise.\u00a0 And so I\u2019ve just begun in my prayer life over the past year of my life to make a conscious effort to be in a time of prayer, and yes, to speak to Him, but to consciously say, okay, I\u2019m done talking now, because I\u2019m just gonna sit here in the stillness<\/em> and wait to see what it is that you want to say to me.<\/p>\n

Dallas Willard, PhD.,former\u00a0 Director, School of Philosophy, USC:<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is somewhat like, uh, the story of electricity with Benjamin Franklin. And actually, we know now that electricity\u2019s everywhere<\/em>. I mean, our blood cells wouldn\u2019t work without electricity. But it was Franklin who made the effort to contact it, as it were. So the famous story about the kite in the electric storm, and the current running down the line and jumping the gap and causing the spark and so on. And of course it\u2019s a wonder that the old fellow wasn\u2019t killed on the spot with it, because lightning has been doing that for a long time.<\/p>\n

Catholic convert, Peter Kreeft:<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to allegorize it. The key is Franklin\u2019s own ego. And the sky is God. And the electricity is grace and the kite line is prayer. And he\u2019s sending himself up to God in order to get charged.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jerry Shirer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

When my son and I, Jackson, when we play sports or when we play baseball or when he kicks the ball, I always want to try to instruct him on how to do it and what to do. This is how you do it, Son. You do it this way. Well, it hit me. Where Jackson doesn\u2019t want to be with me to receive instruction necessarily. He just wants to be in my presence. And that was the amazing thing. He goes, \u201cYou know, Dad, don\u2019t\u2014I don\u2019t need your instructions. I don\u2019t need this. Dad, I\u2019m just happy just being with you.\u201d You know? And that was the thing for me. And that just, you know, made me understand my relationship with Christ. It\u2019s not about me speaking or saying, Lord, this is what I want. He goes, \u201cJerry, just spend time with Me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard Foster:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemplative prayer can be experienced everywhere,<\/em> in small groups of people, when you\u2019re alone, when you\u2019re at work, in all kinds of situations. You take a passage of Scripture, a very simple passage, and you simply lean into the passage<\/em> and you allow the Lord to teach you.<\/p>\n

Narrator:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Churches, small groups and individuals around the world have structured a spiritual life around the practice of Christian contemplation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistorical Overview\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dallas Willard:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Very interesting that even Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, thought the highest human good was contemplation. But he thought it was contemplation of truth, not contemplation of God. Still, he was onto something big. And it was later on<\/em> the Christians came along because Aristotelian contemplation turned out not really to do a lot for people. But Augustine, for example, corrected Aristotle and taught that it was God that we contemplate,<\/em> because He is the only final good and we lift our minds and hearts to Him through Christ, and that gives us the kind of life-giving joy and sufficiency that Aristotle understood to be true happiness.<\/p>\n

Beth Moore:<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the lives that has affected me deeply is Saint Augustine, that after wrestling with God for such a long time, and God just chasing him and hunting him down, I remember thinking to myself, I want to be that way about God. When God\u2019s hunting me down, I wanna slow down and be caught by Him. If He\u2019s chasing me, I want Him to catch me. And that\u2019s what God did with Saint Augustine. And he knew the fiery passion of God\u2019s love, not just a God of the law, but a God of the heart, a God that chases the heart of man, to pick up all its pieces and make it whole.<\/p>\n

Peter Kreeft, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College:<\/strong><\/p>\n

[The mystic] Kierkegaard, probably the greatest Protestant Christian mind of all time,<\/em> said many times something like this\u2014This is almost the last page of his journal shortly before he died. He said, \u201cIf I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.<\/em> Because even if the word of God were proclaimed in its fullness, it would not be heard. There is too much noise. So begin with silence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Narrator:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The stresses we live with are so invasive, we begin to believe we\u2019re nothing but these things. We believe they have the power to define who we are and how we live. We must learn to desire a oneness with God that transcends all these things.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Need for Contemplative Prayer\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Max Lucado, Pastor, Author, \u201cCure for the Common Life\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know, people are in such a hurry all the time. I talked to a man recently who had completed 60 ironman triathlons. And the guy\u2019s in his 60s. I said, What\u2019s the secret? He said, \u201cStart slow and taper down.\u201d That\u2019s my new motto in life. He said, \u201cEverybody gets out on these races, and they start running as hard as they can, and they wear out. They can\u2019t finish.\u201d He said, \u201cThe secret\u2019s to start slow and taper down.\u201d I thought, you know, that\u2019s right. Cause really in life, we start slow. And Jesus said, \u201cAnybody who would know the kingdom of God needs to come like a child.\u201d Children start slow, in our parent\u2019s lap, at our mother\u2019s breast, sleeping a lot, thinking a lot, learning a lot, but then somewhere along the line we think we gotta ratchet up. And so, yeah, I think it\u2019s time to slow it all down a little bit.<\/p>\n

Priscilla Shirer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m reminded of Matthew, chapter 17, during the Transfiguration, Jesus was there with Peter, James and John and it says that God called out from the heavens, God the Father, called out from the heavens. And here\u2019s Jesus standing in front of them with His face shining. And I mean, they are just amazed at what they are seeing and God the Father calls out and says, \u201cThis is My Son whom I love, and I am well pleased.\u201d And this is the command that God the Father gives. He says, \u201cListen to Him.\u201d Here\u2019s Jesus in all of His glory, and the one thing the Father says that He\u2019s, we\u2019re supposed to do is listen to Him. And so, if that\u2019s the one command that God the Father would give at this point, at this incredible point in biblical history, that we listen to Him, then I think we oughta be making some time to come aside from our busyness and listen to what it is that our Father has to say to us.<\/p>\n

Calvin Miller, Professor, Author, \u201cInto the Depths of God\u201d: [Miller is a proponent of Marcus Borg who openly denied many tenets of the Christian faith.]
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One of the great things that silence does, it gives us a new concept of God<\/em>. God is not just somebody there to hear us, a doting grandfather who puts his arms around us and says, \u201cHoney, I\u2019ll see what I can do for you.\u201d God is an activist. That\u2019s why I believe in praying the Scriptures. When you open up the Bible and you pray the Scriptures back to God, you\u2019re experiencing something really wonderful, and what you\u2019re experiencing is, you\u2019re reading back to the Author of the Word of God His own words. Now I\u2019m not, I\u2019m not a great writer. But when somebody says to me, \u201cI read your book,\u201d that\u2019s a great gift to give me.<\/p>\n

Beth Moore:<\/strong><\/p>\n

God\u2019s Word is so clear that if we are not still before Him, we will never truly know, to the depths of the marrow in our bones, that He is God.<\/em> There has got to be a stillness.<\/em> We\u2019ve got to have a time to sit before Him and just know that He is. We live in such an attention-deficit culture, and we\u2019re so entirely over stimulated, so much coming at us at once, one image after another, that if we are not careful, we are going to lose the art of meditation<\/em>, to just sit before God and know His peace, that He really is in control, and that nothing is happening that\u2019s not being sifted through His fingers, and He is God upon the throne.<\/p>\n

Richard Foster:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The wonderful thing about contemplative prayer is that it can be found everywhere, anywhere, any time for anyone.<\/em> [Foster believes that contemplative prayer is for anyone, not just believers in Christ.] We become a portable sanctuary, so that we are living our life, wherever it is, aware of the goodness of God, the presence of God.<\/p>\n

Tim Lundy:<\/strong><\/p>\n

If there ever was an age that the church\u2014and a time period when the church needed the practice of solitude and silence<\/em>, it\u2019s now. We live in the information age. And I love it. I love the technology. I love the opportunities it gives us. But I also recognize that every day there\u2019s hundreds of emails. We\u2019re connected to a world wide web. We have cell phones. We, whether we\u2019re in a car, or on an airplane or at our home, somebody can be in contact with us. And all those are great resources, but if in the middle of it we don\u2019t stop, if we don\u2019t get silent and practice that<\/em> and be alone with God, all that becomes just a drain on us. And so the very people you\u2019re trying to connect with and minister to, you have no energy for.<\/p>\n

Dallas Willard:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now because silence is such a radical thing<\/em>, and it does mean that you give up control of your situation, you can see what a tremendous impact that would have on the American church, in their services, in their meetings of various kinds. Suppose they practice silence in some of their meetings.<\/em> That would actually give a place for God to break in. And who knows, He might have something to say even to a committee meeting, if they would be silent long enough. It would mean that, for example, the pastors and the leaders in the services would not feel like they have to control everything, that again, God is in control. And that\u2019s the way God is. He more or less waits for us to get tired of running things and then He\u2019s glad to help.<\/p>\n

Katherine A. Brown-Satzman, [promotes guided imagery] Executive Director, UCLA, Healthcare Ethics Center:<\/strong><\/p>\n

And in the process of that, physiologically, everything begins to shift. Blood pressure comes down. Breathing changes. Our mind quiets. And we can actually get to this state of where our body can heal in a much better way, because it\u2019s not fighting all of this, right? It\u2019s not amped up.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFear of Silence\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dallas Willard:<\/strong><\/p>\n

If silence is a condition of this experience, a lot of people really are not going to undertake it. It\u2019s very difficult to get anyone to be silent. And I think it\u2019s because in silence they really do surrender their control over how they appear. One of the things we do in talking is to adjust our appearance. And to abandon that as a project is really major. So we keep jabbering. You go to the ordinary church service, you can hardly find 15 minutes of silence. But silence is one of the great spiritual disciplines.<\/em> And in fact you\u2019re not going to get very far in contemplative prayer unless you know how to be silent<\/em>. And by that I mean that you really are comfortable with it and you\u2019re practiced in it.<\/p>\n

Narrator:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christian meditation is the practice of being in the presence of God.<\/em> Its ultimate goal is to seek only God and receive His guidance and grace.<\/p>\n

Richard Foster:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let me give just a little example of contemplative prayer for an individual. I was using Scripture\u2014one of the Psalms, a brief Psalm, like recently I used Psalm 9. And first I would read it through, just out loud to myself, and just become aware of the texture of the Psalm. And then I\u2019d do a second reading. And there I would highlight whatever passage\u00a0 seemed to strike me in any way\u2014a phrase or a sentence. And then I would do a third reading, and there I\u2019m coming\u2014I\u2019m reading only the highlighted passages, and I look for any phrase, any sentence that speaks particularly to my condition. And that particular day, Psalm 9, the passage was, Be gracious to me, O Lord. Isn\u2019t that wonderful? And I was going through some difficult time, and it was so helpful then, for the entire day, to utilize that particular passage. Be gracious to me, O Lord. Whatever I\u2019m doing, whatever work it is, whatever situation with the children or with my wife or whatever\u2014Be gracious to me, O Lord. See? That\u2019s contemplative prayer.<\/p>\n

LT:<\/strong> [Richard Foster is describing lectio divina here; but while he’s trying to make contemplative prayer sound very innocent here, we know from years of studying his writings, that he believes contemplative prayer to be much more than just picking out a passage of Scripture and thinking about it throughout the day. He and other contemplative figures teach that in order to go into the contemplative stillness, that special word or phrase needs to be repeated over and over to help eliminate thoughts and distractions.]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Difference Between Eastern and Christian Meditation\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tim Lundy:<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I see in Christian meditation\u2014it\u2019s not escape from the world. It\u2019s an escape to something and to someone. And so it\u2019s an opportunity to stop, and you\u2019re getting away from the world, but you\u2019re moving toward God and connecting with Him.<\/p>\n

Dallas Willard:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The loss of self that is meant in the Eastern traditions, really does mean that the individual dissolves. And that solves the problems of desire and passion, which is the curse of human life on that view of things. See, the Christian and Jewish teaching, and for that matter the Islamic teaching, is that the distinctness of the individual is a good thing. And that God has intended that and means to preserve it. So the response to the human condition is not the disappearance of desire but the dominance of love.<\/p>\n

Beth Moore:<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the difference with meditation. We\u2019re not just speaking to our inner selves. We\u2019re not just speaking to a more positive thought process that day. We pray to the God of the universe, the king of all creation, is my Abba, Father. That\u2019s who I\u2019m talking to. And when I have that kind of attitude\u2014that I\u2019m talking to somebody that really can change my circumstances, that really can change my heart, that really can empower me to be different than I\u2019d be, to do what I cannot do, to know what I cannot possibly know\u2014I\u2019m gonna tell you something\u2014My approach is gonna be transformed. I\u2019m not just talking, I\u2019m not just trying to get my head together, I\u2019m talking to someone. And I happen to be talking to the God of the universe.<\/p>\n

LT: <\/strong>[What Beth Moore and Dallas Willard are saying here is that the method is the same but the intent is different; but we say that if the method is the same, you are going to get the same results. As Ray Yungen has said, two people can jump out of a ten story building with one saying “fly, fly,” and the other saying “fall, fall,” but the results will be the same.]<\/p>\n

Narrator:<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a peace that surpasses understanding. We know that stress will always be there<\/em>, but we ground our hearts<\/em> in such oneness<\/em> with God that His power can transform our lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow God Speaks Through Scripture\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Foster:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Learning to distinguish the voice of God from just human voices within us comes in much the same way that we learn any other voice. You know, there\u2019s a tone to a voice. Satan pushes and condemns. God draws and encourages. And we can know the difference. And then there\u2019s a spirit in a voice, isn\u2019t there? Remember it was said of Messiah that He would not break a bruised reed nor quench a smoldering wick. You see, Jesus would never snuff out the smallest hope, never crush the needy. And that\u2019s\u00a0 the spirit that we look for in the voice of God. And then, third,\u00a0 there\u2019s the content of the voice. And in the final analysis, that is the most clear evidence. You see, the voice of God, the Davar Yahweh, is always consistent with the way God has spoken in the past. And so Scripture, then, becomes a primary means by which we understand God speaking to us today. It will always be consistent with the way He has spoken in the past.<\/p>\n

LT:<\/strong> [Satan comes as an angel of light and his ministers as ministers of righteousness. This “test” by Richard Foster is very flawed.]<\/p>\n

Mark Brewer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes the longest distance in our spiritual journey is that 18 inches from our head getting it down into our heart. And the power of this contemplative prayer, this inner life, is it takes the knowledge which is all the facts and figures, and it makes it wisdom by applying it.<\/p>\n

LT:<\/strong> [What contemplatives mean when they say from the head to the heart<\/em> is what contemplative Henri Nouwen meant when he said: “Through the discipline of contemplative prayer, Christian leaders have to learn to listen to the voice of love<\/em> … For Christian leadership to be truly fruitful in the future, a movement from the moral [doctrine] to the mystical is required.” <\/em>(from Nouwen’s book, In the Name of Jesus)]
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Calvin Miller:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can you think about how God must feel when a Christian comes into His presence reading the 23rd<\/sup> Psalm? Lord, You are my shepherd. You make me lie down in green pastures. You lead me beside still waters, all for Your name\u2019s sake. I think when we say those things back to God, as the author of those words, He\u2019s delighted. And the silence confirms that we are people, and we\u2019re talking and God\u2019s listening. But the best times are when God starts talking and we\u2019re quiet enough to hear Him.<\/p>\n

Beth Moore:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Second Timothy 3 tells us that all Scripture is God-breathed, and that means that every single word on that paper has come fresh out of the mouth of God. What I try to remember every single time I read Scripture is that it still has the warmth of God\u2019s breath on it. You can\u2019t separate the words of God from the mouth of God, or you\u2019ve just got sterile words sitting on a page<\/em>. God\u2019s Word is different than that. It\u2019s the very word out of His mouth. Therefore it comes with fresh breath. Because it\u2019s eternal, that means time is not attached to it. So it\u2019s as fresh today to me as it was the day it came out of His mouth and onto the paper. That\u2019s the way I look at it.<\/p>\n

LT:<\/strong> [According to this statement by Beth Moore, without the contemplative aspect, the Word of God is “sterile.” We are not taking what she said out of context. This is totally typical of the contemplative mindset. Remember what she said above, without the stillness, you can’t really know God. She also says that “you can’t separate the word of God from the mouth of God,” but the Bible says in Psalm 138:2 that God’s Word is magnified above His name, so surely His Word is magnified above His “breath.” If you stop and really think about what she is saying here, you will see how distorted this thinking is.<\/p>\n

Narrator:<\/strong>
\nThe practice of contemplative prayer can be a vital part of our everyday lives. But we must make time for it.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fruit of Contemplative Prayer\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beth Moore:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A true lover of God once spoke about practicing God\u2019s presence.<\/em> To me, that\u2019s such a part of contemplative prayer<\/em>. That we are able to absorb the reality,<\/em> that as we commune with God through prayer, that He is with us, that His Spirit, for those of us who are in Christ, fills us, that we are drawn near to Him, that our souls find rest in Him, that we\u2019ll realize that it\u2019s not just words on a page, but it\u2019s the presence of God, the voice out of His mouth, that calms us, or perhaps stirs us, gives us peace or perhaps brings us into a holy passion, that we respond to His presence.<\/p>\n

Calvin Miller:<\/strong><\/p>\n

But if we don\u2019t do it, all we are is an inner wrangling that never ceases. We move from hassle to hassle to hassle. One may stick a little Jesus in here or there, but without the silence, there\u2019s no healing.<\/em> There\u2019s no healing.<\/p>\n

From the segment called \u201cCloud of Witnesses: Contemplative Figures Throughout History\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beth Moore, Author \u201cA Heart Like His\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

You know one of the things that time gives us is that it erases the lines between so many different sections of the people of God.<\/em> Because many years later it doesn\u2019t matter any longer that this person was of this practice in the Christian faith and this person of another. Time somehow blurs those lines,<\/em> and we are profoundly moved by the historical narratives of all of their lives of so great a cloud of witnesses<\/em> that we can look back on and see what kept them running the race, what kept them running toward the face of Christ at the end of that finish line.<\/p>\n

Dr. Mark Brewer, Pastor, Bel Air Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles:<\/p>\n

Through the ages a lot of us as Christians think that the Holy Spirit\u2019s been on sabbatical since the first century and now He just showed up. But He\u2019s been very active in the lives of all of His people. I think of some of the desert fathers<\/em>\u2014they called themselves God\u2019s athletes in the third and fourth century. They left this corrupt Roman Empire to go and to seek God and they made what they called this holy place for God. That\u2019s why they fasted and why they lived such simple lives, was so the Lord could encounter them.<\/p>\n

Richard Foster, Author, \u201cPrayer\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n

[The mystic] Madame Guyon was a French lady of the 17th<\/sup> century. She had children. She had an ordinary life experience. But she learned, you see, how, in that, to live with God. Her book, \u201cExperiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ,\u201d is one of the sweetest little books on contemplative prayer<\/em>. And she wrote it for people who couldn\u2019t read themselves. Her book was meant to be read to them.<\/p>\n

Richard Foster:<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Mystic] Teresa of Avila was a Spanish lady in the 16th<\/sup> century, a contemporary with [panentheist] Saint John of the Cross. An incredible leader, administrator. A woman of immense skill and ability and a woman of deep prayer.<\/p>\n

Jerry Root, PhD, Professor, Wheaton College:<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of my favorite stories relates to the medieval contemplative Julian of Norwich. She was from England. And she claimed to have had revelation from God and she wrote about it shortly after she had these experiences. She was in her early 20s. Twenty-five years later she wrote about it again. She hadn\u2019t had a new experience with God, revealing Himself to her, but she wrote about it 25 years later, having allowed 25 years of contemplation to inform what this meant to her. There\u2019s one story that occurs in both accounts. She said that God spoke to her and told her to pick up a chestnut. She picked it up and God spoke to her and said, \u201cAll the great truths can be found even in a chestnut. God made it. God sustains it. God loves it.\u201d<\/p>\n

And I think all of the great contemplative writers have present application, if we\u2019ll look for it.<\/p>\n

[The mystic] Evelyn Underhill would be a relatively modern contemplative. She died in the early 1940s. At Oxford University you had to be a male to teach, until Evelyn Underhill came along. She was the first woman given lecture-wide status throughout the university. She was towering intellect. She wrote 39 books on Christian spirituality [i.e., contemplative spirituality] and philosophy of religion. And Evelyn Underhill tells a great story about a friend of hers who had been to Scotland, to the island of Iona. Iona is an island that\u2019s sacred for the Scots because it\u2019s where Columba first brought Christianity to Scotland. Every Scot needs to make the pilgrimage to Iona sometime in their life because the roots of Scottish Christianity are there. Well, Underhill\u2019s friend had been to Scotland and had been to Iona, and when she returned her Scottish gardener said to her, \u201cWhere did you go for your vacation?\u201d And Underhill\u2019s friend said, \u201cI\u2019ve been to Iona.\u201d And he says, \u201cOh, Iona\u2019s a thin place.\u201d She said, \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d He said, \u201cIt\u2019s a thin place because there\u2019s not much between God and Iona.\u201d<\/p>\n

And all of life, properly looked at, in some senses, is a thin place.<\/em> Everywhere we look, in a world made by God, a world inhabited by God, God is calling us to worship Him. . . . There\u2019s another medieval contemplative named Brother Lawrence.<\/em> He was responsible for the book \u201cPracticing the Presence of God.\u201d Many people don\u2019t realize that Brother Lawrence was a pot scrubber in a monastery. He wasn\u2019t a full-fledged monk. He was a brother who would come in and scrub pots for the monks so that they could spend their time in prayer. And it was while he was washing pots at a kitchen scullery that he practiced the presence of God. In essence, Brother Lawrence would tell us the kitchen\u2019s a thin place. Scrubbing pots is a thin place. All of life\u2014especially the struggle of life\u2014is a thin place. God wants to meet us in those places.<\/p>\n

Dallas Willard:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brother Lawrence\u2019s<\/a> experiences were rather different. They involve some things that are quite like this type of prayer. But for example, a major experience for him was viewing a tree that had lost its leaves in the winter and was all stripped bare, and the realization that this tree still had life in it, and that this life would flourish again in the spring. His sense of that seemed to bring him into a kind of unity with that life that he began to practice. And of course, he had a very lowly, menial position, caring for the kitchen and the needs of the monastery. So he learned then to see God in all things.<\/em><\/p>\n

Richard Foster:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brother Lawrence, in his wonderful book, \u201cThe Practice of the Presence of God,\u201d said, \u201cThose who have the gale\u2026\u201d He means the wind. \u201c\u2026of the Holy Spirit go forward even in sleep.\u201d Isn\u2019t that wonderful, that we can move forward in our spiritual life even when we\u2019re sleeping? I often try, as I am entering sleep, to just give my life to God\u2014my heart, my mind, my thinking, my dreams, whatever they might be. And then you wake up in the morning and you\u2019ve advanced in the Spirit. You see, that\u2019s part of contemplative prayer as well.<\/p>\n

From the segment, Alone With God:<\/p>\n

Woman:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Find a simple and quiet place where you can be comfortable for about 20 minutes. But you don\u2019t want to get so comfortable that you miss your intimate time with God because you\u2019ve fallen asleep. If I\u2019m in bed, I prop up on a pillow and try to sit up as straight as possible, not in the counting sheep position.<\/p>\n

Take a few deep breaths. Begin to relax and slow yourself down. As you inhale, think of the Holy Spirit breathing life and peace into your body. And as you exhale, remember the verse that says to cast all your cares upon Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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