The chief dispositions of Centering Prayer and other contemplative practices are welcoming and detaching from all that we receive – without judgement, hesitation, or expectation. These dispositions do allow us to withstand the difficulties and celebrate the blessings of life without becoming bogged down in either, but welcoming and detachment represent so much more than spiritual self-help techniques. These two “muscle movements” put us in synch with the Trinity: The Three Persons are forever freely welcoming all that the Others have to give, and just as readily releasing the fullness of Divinity back to the Others in perfectly realized freedom and love. As we grow in our own embrace of welcoming and detachment, we manifest Divine Love and Freedom ourselves.
So much of the life and ministry of Jesus are spent trying to gently move us into the flow of this Trinitarian dynamic. Consider teachings such as “This is how you are to pray: Our Father” (Mt. 6:9), “whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” (Mt 16:25), ad “I have given them the glory you gave me” (Jn 17:22), among others. As we practice welcoming and detachment, there comes a major shift in our understanding of the locus of our prayer: We can now recognize that we are not praying to God, as if we are somehow outside of the Divine Life. Rather, our prayer is in God, our readiness to receive and let go an expression of the Divine Life itself!
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