I suspect that the fear and condemnation of meditation comes because it is difficult for us to let ourselves go, to put our entire lives with absolute faith in a God we cannot in any way control. We live in a society which is sold on control, and tries to sell it to us. But the only way we can brush against the hem of the Lord, or hope to be able to work with our Abba/Amma in the telling of our story, is to have the courage, the faith, to abandon our control and to give it entirely to the Creator.
