Adapted from Four Doors to Meeting for Worship by William Taber
- Choose a simple and regular spiritual practice that is recommended by some authority you trust, and with which you feel comfortable. Persist in it, even when you do not see immediate results.
- Slow, out-loud reading of a portion of scripture or other inspirational writing helps focus the whole self. Spoken, out-loud prayer which comes from the heart can also bring such focus to your practice.
- Cultivate your capacity to see the beauty that is already there, and to experience wonder. This can be in response to anything: nature, music, visual arts, sculpture, literature, machinery, the faces and graces of people, or the endless textures and wonders of our everyday environment. For many people an important practice is simply to cultivate these moments which are already there, and to relax and remember the Divine Mystery in the midst of it all.
- Find at least one or more spiritual friends with whom you can talk about your spiritual journey and with whom you can worship informally. This can sometimes be more powerful than individual worship, and helps us learn to more easily recognize when we are really in the Stream and when we are not.
For more on worship and cultivating a spiritual practice, see the following:
- Four Doors to Meeting for Worship by William Taber. Pendle Hill Pamphlet #306
- Listening Spirituality by Patricia Loring
Adapted by Merry Stanford with permission from Pendle Hill from pages 8-10 in Four Doors to Meeting for Worship by William Taber. Pendle Hill Pamphlet #306