Improve Our Conscious Contact With God.

Seek through prayer and mediation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him or her. — Variation of Page 96, Daily Reflections .

Mondays are days of good intentions. I can’t tell you how many diets I’ve started on a Monday, for example. Today being a good example.

Well, if there is any post-it note that should go on my refrigerator it should’t be the usual “keep closed, look in the mirror.” It should be “Improve conscious contact with God.”

I also like the caveat inserted by AA that says “as we understand Him.” The caveat reminds me of Luis telling the congregation to go as far as we can go with our belief, and that’s sufficient with God. But back to the “conscious contact.”

There are times in my life I let God be that lurking presence in my background. There if I need him, but I hardly was in constant communication with him. It was my loss.

We meditate and pray to change our relationship with God, and the more we are in “conscious contact” the more the rest of our life seems to fit nicely in place.

Lifestyle gurus counsel to do the most important thing we have to accomplish in the day first thing. Many authors take that advice and write first thing in the morning. (I by the way, don’t adhere to that good advice. I have to remove the mosquito’s in the room first — bills, unanswered emails or calls, etc.). But I realized this morning as I start out again with good intentions that in fact I do do the most important thing first most mornings. I meditate and pray in a poor attempt to improve my conscious contact with God.

I don’t think what I do is right for anyone else, but the idea is the right one. Find a time in your day to be in contact. I think you will find if you do, that  all else will become secondary.

It’s Monday!

 

 

About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.

Leave a Reply +

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *