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Listen<\/strong><br \/>\nI talk too much. Not just in meetings, but in my conversations with God. And for decades, I didn&#039;t quite grasp what other people meant when they talked about &quot;listening to God.&quot; But the monks helped me with that.<\/p>\n<p>I have learned in more than a dozen visits to Gethsemani that silence really does foster an internal, two-way conversation with God. I have learned what it means to hear from God.<\/p>\n<p>I have learned that God, always a gentleman, seldom interrupts me. He will wait for me to stop talking and listen. So I have to shut up. For a while. And then he speaks. Not audibly (not yet, anyway). But unmistakeably.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.  Read Slowly<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#039;ve read my Bible my whole life. I&#039;ve read through it many times. But the practice of prayerfully chanting psalms taught me to slow down and let the Word seep into my heart and mind and life.<\/p>\n<p>That opened up to me a whole new world of prayer and intimacy with God. It turned my &ldquo;Bible reading time&rdquo; into &ldquo;waiting and listening and praying time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.  Rest<\/strong><br \/>\nThe psalmist sang, &ldquo;Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you&rdquo; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+116:7&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Psalm 116:7, ESV<\/a>). Sometimes rest is a form of prayer. It can be a tremendous blessing to close your eyes or lay down your head as if reposing in the arms of God.<\/p>\n<p>Though I&#039;ve always had trouble sleeping, even at night, I learned from my sojourns at the monastery to pursue moments of repose as a form of prayer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.  Be<\/strong><br \/>\nPerhaps most of all, I learned to &ldquo;be&rdquo; from the monks. I have always been a &quot;doer.&quot; Even, at times, a workaholic.<\/p>\n<p>My temperament and my upbringing combined to make me a hard worker&#8230;and long laborer. And day after day, month after month, year after year, that had become my life: doing, not being.<\/p>\n<p>But on one of my early retreats at Gethsemani, I was intrigued to see the lives of several dozen monks ordered, not by frantic efforts to &ldquo;do&rdquo; and to &ldquo;accomplish&rdquo; things&ndash;though they do accomplish much&ndash;but by the priority of &ldquo;being,&rdquo; putting themselves in God&rsquo;s path, so to speak, and waiting on him, in patient prayer, devotion, silence and solitude.<\/p>\n<p>Being, not doing. It wasn&#039;t an easy discipline to learn. The first time or two, I arrived at the monastery with a stack of books to read, an agenda of items to pray through, and more.<\/p>\n<p>But little by little, I learned to be still. To stop my incessant &quot;doing.&quot; To surrender my need to accomplish things. To spend time in God&rsquo;s presence, not &ldquo;accomplishing&rdquo; stuff, not chattering or checking off items on a list, but being with him. Being still. Being present. Being.<\/p>\n<p>I still can&rsquo;t say I&rsquo;m good at any of these ways of praying, but I&rsquo;ve enjoyed&ndash;and benefited immensely from&ndash;getting better, little by little.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? Do you practice any of these &ldquo;ways to pray?&rdquo; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 16 years ago, in a time of great spiritual need, I journeyed to the Abbey of Gethsemani, near Louisville, Kentucky, and spent four days and three nights at that famous monastery. It changed my life. 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