Woman Reading - by Louai Kayyali

Yesterday’s post encouraged you to start each day with two minutes of silent and solitary prayer. As you spend time in prayer, God’s presence within you will create the desire to spend more time abiding with Him. Today, we turn our attention to the scriptures. In Touching the Holy, Robert J. Wicks reminds us, “Without meeting God each day in scripture our sense of God becomes too vague and open to our own musings or the tyranny and erratic impulses of our own unconscious.” Wicks suggests we commit to two minutes in the morning with prayer and five minutes in the evening reading scripture. A great place to start is with the Psalms or the book of John. Don’t study, just read. For five minutes approach God’s Word with a “spirit of  freshness and quiet desire”. Use a new contemporary translation and see the words and stories in a whole new way. Seven minutes a day – you can do it! Small steps lead to powerful changes. Register for the small is powerful event.