Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to us (Matthew 6:33). God has plans for us to prosper and not to harm us, plans to give us hope and a future.

But where and how do we find Him? Here's an article inspired by the writings of Laurence Freeman, OSB. 

Where and how do we find God, source and goal?  We find Him not only in church, temple or mosque, in Bible or sacred texts or in the events of our lives, but in our own inner depths.

In fact the central and fundamental knowledge of God is in the heart, where finding one's self and seeking God are inseparable. Their union, the self-knowledge and the knowledge of God, is the deepest of therapies.

Yet when we begin this interior search, we at first find confusion, even chaos, distraction and all the fugitive shadows of our psyche, including the ones we fear most because we know them to the most destructive of peace and order - fear itself, anger, lust, pride and the dark demon of despair.

No wonder, if we are not prepared to meet these forces and if we have no means or training or support to deal with them, that we retreat. We run back to the surface, to the more comfortingly familiar but far less satisfying world of images and words.

It is a grace of sublime simplicity to learn how to face and pass through the initial turmoil. To learn, day by day, to be silent, still and simple. To go deeper, beyond the reach of fear. Meditation not only calms the storm but brings the vessel of our mind to its true harbour, the heart.

By Tim Pedrosa

I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is.