Today's late-day Centering Prayer session was filled with lots of thoughts (as usual), but many/most of them could be categorized as thinking about either 1) what I could eat for dinner after prayer or 2) why my "progress" in CP was so slight and whether I was doing it wrong somehow.
But the founders of CP note that it's about intent -- "to simply be in the presence of God and engulfed in that divine sense, whether felt or unfelt." Thus "if you don’t do it correctly, it doesn’t matter" ... the "principal method of Centering Prayer really is to sit down."
So there I was, with about five minutes left and I was very aware of an internal craving/itch to eat to soothe. And I'm not exactly sure what I did (or what was done to me), but in those last few minutes I had a very clear awareness of that itch being replaced by a sense of peace.
That's a first ... in nearly 60 years.
Coincidentally or not, it has been six months (today) since I attended the CP workshop I took to begin my practice in earnest.
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