In the temple of the Old Testament there was a table in the middle room for the bread of the presence. Notice this was in the middle room. Pentecost is coming up on Monday May 17th and it is the midpoint of the year on God's calendar. Whenever thinking of the middle I think of the power of presence because it is in the middle of the past and the future.
God is in the present moment, because he says I Am, not I was or will be. There is often a heaviness that comes in our minds and spirits when we worry about the future,think of regrets, or ways people have wronged us in the past, but when we get more present and aware of God's presence everything feels lighter. I think of joy as my indicator that I am present, because in God's presence there is fullness of joy.
In the video above there is a communion meditation and an important concept of communion is bringing the sacrifice of Jesus into the present moment. The bread in communion of symbolic of the bread of the presence. Communion can be used to create a turning point that gets our minds fixed back in the present again.
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