Because I am a son of a coach and been around sports my whole life and now am at the stage of life where working out is something that is a necessity for a healthy life, I tend to make natural parallels between a fitness workout and a spiritual workout. My Spiritual Enrichment (my name for “quiet time”) involves four main components. This week, I will explain each aspect of the workout:
1. Warm-Up
2. Core Workout
3. Strength
4. Cardio
First let me explain the Warm-Up
Warm-Up. A reading from the Divine Hours. This is a manual to what is known as fixed-hour prayer. Basically, if we all lived in a monastery, we would have various times during the day when we would stop what we were doing and join together in prayer and worship. The Divine Hours provides scriptures, Psalms, songs, and prayers covering just a few pages. This is a good warm up for me because it reminds me of where the focus of spiritual enrichment should be – God and not myself. Also, for hundreds of years, the Psalms were the prayer, praise, and worship book of the church and each one of the fixed-hour sessions offer heavy doses of the Psalms. Look here for an example of a morning session. Two words of instruction, first, when you see an asterisks that means you need to pause and second, I always get more out of it when I read through it out loud as if I were trying to memorize some of the readings.
Tomorrow we will look at the Core Workout section.
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Divine Hours looks like a great resource.
Thanks for sharing!
For those that want to check it out before buying the book, you can find the daily Divine Hours readings here – http://www.annarborvineyard.org/tdh/tdh.cfm – looks like there are four readings per day, & they will update as the day progresses based on the time.
Thanks Stephanie. Before I got my Pocket edition. I would go to this website to get that day’s readings. http://www.explorefaith.org/prayer/fixed/