I am hoping that this blog would open your eyes to the wonders of communicating with our Heavenly Father in the here and now in the mundane and the chaos in the trials and triumphs of life.  I have chosen to write about Christian Mindfulness as there are surfeits of books, webpages and blogs on this meditation technique which are written from a Buddhist or Eastern philosophical or humanistic perspective and I could find very little on this topic from a Christian perspective.  My prayer is that this blog would reach the far corners of the globe with a message that God is reaching out to each one and waiting for us to seek Him for He has promised that those who seek will find.  Jeremiah 29:13, Matthew 7:7.

What is meditation?  I know lots of people have preconceived ideas about meditation- that it is an emptying of the mind; that it is hard to do; that it makes you a calmer person; that it disconnects you from reality. I hope to dispel some of these myths in the coming weeks on this blog.

“To meditate means to think deeply about something or someone. It means to explore with mind and heart, allowing what you think to touch your innermost being.” Graham Cooke (Secret Sayings, Hidden Meanings: Practical Wisdom for a Post Modern World 2008)

This mindfulness practice becomes deeply Christian when meditation involves God – a connecting with the divine in the midst of daily life.  So Christian mindfulness involves a filling of your mind with thoughts of God and His nature and being in a moment by moment internal conversation with God.  The word Christian however has a lot of different meanings to people. I too sometimes shudder when I see this word used in a way that does not resemble Jesus. I prefer to call myself a follower of Jesus or a Christ follower. But for the purposes of this blog I will continue to use the word Christian and hope that you understand it means a Christ follower.

Can you practice Christian mindfulness without being a Christian? My prayer is that anyone who starts on a journey to practice Christian mindfulness encounters Jesus for themselves through this process. But until you encounter Jesus I would hesitate to call it Christian mindfulness. It could become a practice which has no real connection to the divine if you just do the meditations and learning to be present and letting go of a critical inner voice and connecting with the sensory part of life; but this isn’t Christian mindfulness unless Jesus Christ is included.  My heartfelt prayer is that everyone in the world encounters Jesus. I have discovered the most amazing person, friend, lover, Saviour, Healer, Creator, motivator, wisdom personified and God in my journey in Christian mindfulness and that person is Jesus.