Learning to meditate. That sounds easy but it is not. Distractions block the way. But if you persist, meditating will become easier. A good way to teach yourself how to meditate is reading slowly and 'meditating each word and extracting every bit of meaning implied while adding some of your own.

As an example: Read from the bible these words: (selected at random) Proverbs: 19:1

"Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse".
Think, think, think. Dwell on these words and be utterly truthful and imagine you are talking with your Lord."

What's He really saying? Is he calling you a fool because you have been talking out of turn? Maybe. Were you? If so, decide what you are going to do about it. Or is he answering your prayer "Please let me win the lottery"? And the answer is no. Why? He knows and you know that should you become rich you would have no more use for Him, not until you foolishly spent all your money.

He wants you to stay close to him, and if the only way you can do it is to stay away from that root of all evil, money, then so be it. Then you begin to see his point, but that brings up another question: "How come others less deserving than I are rich and I am in debt up to my ear lobes"?

Depending on whom you are comparing yourself to, He could answer, but they use their money for the right reasons; or see how mean and poverty stricken their souls are; or they inherited it, and they are now using it for my causes to the best of their ability.

See how 12 or 13 words can generate thoughts on whatever direction your meditation takes you. When you learn the art of meditating and learn how to cleanse your thinking process of silly notions and 'what's in it for me' puzzles, then you can get down to thinking on Him, and His problems. You can go as far back in history as say, 33 AD and see Him hanging there pleading for a drink of water.

The surprising shift in emphasis will bring awareness to you that you are not alone in this vast wilderness and you are here for a purpose. And there's no better way to find that out than by meditating. It is simply taking one little word and looking at it from all angles and sifting through all its myriad possibilities.

Did not John say (The Word became Flesh) "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning." Talk about meditating, that is twenty-four words packed with a punch".

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