Wasting Time with God

  Wasting time with God.  That's what some people call it.  It's the time we spend with the Father/Jesus/Holy Spirit when it seems like nothing is going on.  We're not conversing, we're just enjoying each other's company, sharing the same space. 
  Perhaps it's like a long-married couple who don't talk so much any more, but they don't want to be away from each other either.  In a book I read recently an older gentleman told his adult children, when their mother had to spend some time in hospital, "You're mother and I have never spent a night apart.  I don't intend to start now."  So he slept in his wife's hospital room.  Conversation is not always necessary, but presence is.
  If we've never spent time like this with God, it can be helpful to imagine our favorite place - a beach, the mountains, the woods - and invite God to join us.  Replace the present with God's presence.

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