“Worship is the strategy

by which we interrupt our preoccupation with ourselves
and attend to the presence of God.
[It’s the] time and place
that we assign for deliberate attentiveness to God …
because our self-importance is so insidiously relentless
that if we don’t deliberately interrupt ourselves regularly,
we have no chance of attending to him at all
at other times and in other places.”
Eugene Peterson

“I have set Yahweh continually before me ….”
Psalm 16:8a

* I think Peterson’s words, perhaps written about corporate worship,
apply at least a much to personal, daily times of prayer, meditation and contemplation.

From the Head to the Heart

• Do you agree that you are preoccupied with yourself? that your sense of self-importance is “insidiously relentless?”
• Do you have a strategy to practice “deliberate attentiveness to God” today?  to “set Yahweh continually before you?”
• Can you interrupt whatever you’re doing now and take a few minutes to attend to the presence of God?

Abba, help me to leave spaces to hear from you in each day, to learn to quiet the competing noise within, and to be aware of your presence in every event, every relationship, every space of the day.

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For More: The Peterson quote is from Disappointment With God by Philip Yancey

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