Meditation

I knew nothing about meditation, wasn't inclined to research it and it sounded like a lot of work. Then I heard someone give a talk about a method of meditation and it turned out I'd been doing it all along. You ever see a cow chewing the cud? Once I saw a giraffe do it. It chewed on it for a time then swallowed, I watched the cud travel down its neck like an elevator. A few moments later the giraffe gave a little hiccup and the elevator went back up to its mouth and it started chewing again.

Why is this important? What does it have to do with meditation? When you find a topic and do a few minutes of research hopefully you'll find a few intriguing verses and some interesting words. Chew on them for a while. Read them, think about what’s being said, search on ideas that pop into your head. Getting a little tired, hungry, bored? Swallow the cud. Take a break, let the inner self, the subconscious, take over while you do other things. When you're rested, hiccup, when you chew on your idea this time it's going to taste different. The mind kept working on it while you were goofing off, you came back with your sermon closer to being done.

That's basically it, chew, swallow, hiccup until your idea has built itself into about a dozen or so interesting verses and a good word or two.

The next post will discuss what to do with your dozen verses, how to turn them into a sermon.