The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery

by David G. Benner

fifteen minutes at the end of each day for the next week to do the following. First, take your journal (or something on which you can write) and find a quiet place where you can sit undisturbed. Select a Gospel account of one event in the life of Christ. After a brief prayer inviting God to allow you to imaginatively enter this experience and encounter Jesus, spend five minutes daydreaming on the passage. After thanking God for the gift of time spent with Jesus, ask for help in reflecting on your day in order to better discern Divine Presence during it. Allow the events of the day to replay before you. Accept whatever comes into focus, no matter how trivial it initially appears to be, as a gift from God. Ask for help to discern Divine Presence in the experience. End your time by thanking God for gifts received during this process.