Powerful Christian Meditation : Finding God in the Silence of “Nothing”

Every morning I get up and write this love letter to you. I never have a message, or anything to share. In fact, like this morning, I have no words. But I show up, and I sit, and I feel Him, and He moves my fingers. He moves my mind. I remember (seemingly) quotes that I’ve come across that weave into the ideas that appear here on screen.

That’s how the podcast worked, that’s how the reels work… every single time. I have NOTHING. And then from that nothing, something comes. From that nothing, every seeming thing has come. That’s how it has always worked in every area of my life. I show up consistently, and the Way is revealed… the Way is made, even in the most impossible situations. Every time. Every time.

The ‘nothing’ you experience in the time we share, even if that ‘nothing’ seems to be full of worry or panic or sadness and pain, is actually full of Him. It is Him. You are just training your attention to see and know. When I sit in the hot car with no words and everything in my being wants to throw in the towel, I take a deep breath close my eyes, and the inner smile starts coming, the outer smile starts coming, the body postures up straighter in the seat, the Fire is felt (not just the fire from the no a.c. , so it won’t make noise on camera lol) and then that Fire appears as words.

The more attention you give to the seeming ‘nothing’ there in your experience… the more you turn to it, and even begin to love it… to expect answers to come from it… to expect movement on your most stuck problems to start from it, the more you’ll know it for what (and who) it really is. As it says in 1 Corinthians 13 (don’t skip this… let every word rise out of that nothing):

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,

but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

Right now God may appear as a ‘nothing’ in your experience. A boring…blankness… when you close your eyes and go within. There’s a veil there. And what we do together, is peek around it. We lift it up, we poke little holes in it and get glimpses, we peek through, we FEEL THROUGH… into the Love. My veil is absolutely shredded but I still forget sometimes. We are working on yours now.

Ask God to show you how. To reveal Himself in your life more and more. Call on Him. Call Him, ‘Father’, call Him, ‘Dad’, call Him, ‘Abba’, call Him, call Him, call Him. Call Him without calling Him 😉 No words. Just the language of the heart. I’m calling on Him now. Thanking Him now. Even though no language is being used. A felt-communication.

“THE LORD WANTS US TO ASK WITH PERSISTENCE, EVEN STUBBORNNESS. SO IF THE GIFT DOESN’T COME RIGHT AWAY, DON’T DESPAIR; RATHER, FEEL YOUR VERY SOUL EXPANDING IN ANTICIPATION”. – Bishop Barron

I am persisting with you. Pleading and praying for you… often without words. Just Love. Just Jesus.

I love you,

nik

p.s. wrote this in a comment but felt it was worthy of being included up here!

What are we giving thanks to God our Father for?! On your way into meditation today, thank Him… let whatever thoughts or ideas come, thank you Father for _____. Thank you for _____, etc. and then finally stay in the Silence… when no thoughts are left… when you feel as if you can’t think of anything else to be thankful for, just be thankful for the silence… for the seeming nothing! And stay in that womb of creation!