UNCEASING PRAYER (Daily Readings) Into the Silent Land  by Martin Laird The contemplative discipline of meditation, what I will call in this book contemplative practice, doesn’t acquire anything.  In that sense, and an important sense, it is not a technique but a surrendering of deeply imbedded resistances that allows the sacred within gradually to reveal itself as a simple, fundamental fact.  Out of this letting go there emerges what St. Paul called our “hidden self”:  “may he give you the power through his Spirit for your hidden self to grow strong”  (Eph 3:16).  Again, contemplative practice does not produce this “hidden self” but facilitates the falling away of all that obscures it. These links have been updated. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday (Iris Picture: From the Garden of Sue Albright) Home Page

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