What if Meditation Was More?

Meditation: A Doorway to the Father

This morning, as usual, I despised the fact that waking exists at all. I grabbed my energy drink, life’s adrenaline, and went back to my room to pray. As I was reading the Word, a thought hit me…

What is a meditation?

Have we mystified it too much and also too little?

Have we confused the topic of meditation with meditation?

Do we expect transcendence through epiphany?

Let’s break it down one question at a time.

1. What is Meditation?

I spent years and countless breaths asking God to teach me how to meditate. I have searched the Word, eastern meditation texts, spiritualistic writings, and even tried listening to different frequencies on binaural beats while attempting to think of nothing in order to think of everything.

What I have found is this:

Meditation is directing our thoughts toward a specific thing. For some, that is nothingness. For others, it is the good and pure things in life. For me, it is God. Meditation is the act of circling around a chosen theme, like planets revolving around the sun.

Each time our minds wander, we redirect back to the central source. The difference between meditating on God and meditating on other things is that God is an active participant when we revolve around Him. Meditation becomes the doorway God uses for revelation.

In short, meditation is directed intent with an explorer’s mindset toward the Father.

“Blessed is the man… his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.” (Psalm 1:1 — 2)

2. Have we mystified it too much and also too little?

Perhaps we have set meditation on such lofty heights that it feels inaccessible to normal people with busy lives. The truth is, meditation is a personal journey where we flex mindfulness and direct thought toward the Source.

Meditation can happen in the busyness of life as we look for the Father in the ordinary. It can also become transcendent when revelation comes, but that is a gift, not the goal. The goal is communion.

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it.” (Joshua 1:8)

Take again the solar system image. Meditation is us as the planets, revolving around the Sun, our chosen focus, our God. The stars around us are distractions that pull our attention. Meditation is living mindfully present to our gravitational Source.

3. Have we confused the topic of meditation with actual meditation?

For me, the act of trying to empty my mind became the whole practice, and it kept me from truly meditating. The instructions I read about silence and nothingness left me chasing absence instead of presence.

Then it hit me: maybe godly meditation is different from worldly meditation. Maybe turning our minds to Him and continually course-correcting back when we wander is the very heart of it. Maybe the act of being present and centered on Him is meditation.

Maybe meditation is thought directed toward the Source, preparing us for discourse.

“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.” (Isaiah 26:3)

4. Do we expect transcendence through epiphany?

It is possible. But it usually looks ordinary, like a whisper, not a cosmic blaze.

This morning, as I revolved around my Source, my epiphany came wrapped in morning breath and grumpiness. It could have gone unnoticed had I not been mindful.

“And after the fire the sound of a low whisper. And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak…” (1 Kings 19:12 — 13)

Closing Thoughts

Meditation is a doorway. It is mindful living toward a chosen Source. When that Source is the Father, it becomes a portal to interactive revelation.

Meditation nearly always breeds revelation in the ordinary. It prepares us for the whisper in the stillness. Intent matters: direct your heart to the Father, and He will meet you where you are.

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” (James 4:8)

As always, Dust,

To you,

For you,

From Him,

In me.

If this meditation resonated with you please pass it along to another planet orbiting. That way we can share revelation.