Slow Down with God
The times are urgent. Slow down!
Our
Story
Slow Down With God is a collaboration between SEARCH and Nicola Bown (St Mary's Church, Cottingham), exploring formation in prayer and action.
Prayer is not sending an order and expecting it to be fulfilled. Prayer is attuning yourself to the life of the world, to love, to the force that moves the sun and the moon and the stars.(David Steindl-Rast)
Get to Know Us
Slow Down with God seeks to be a "school" nurturing deep prayer that leads to transformative action.
Our desire is to open up the ancient roots of the Christian contemplative tradition, sharing these hidden gems for a world in crisis.
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What We Do
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Christian Meditation
We host a weekly ‘Christian Prayer and Meditation’ session every Wednesday, 1.30-2.30pm at Hull Minster for anyone wanting to practice contemplative prayer alongside others.
All are welcome!
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Courses
These are short courses created (between 4-6 weeks, gathering once a week for 1.5 hours) to introduce participants to a number of different prayer practices, including silent prayer, Lectio Divina and open sharing together, so that they might listen to how God may be speaking to them and leading them into loving action for their wider communities and world. The courses also utilise music, art and journaling as ways of praying and discerning.
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Restivals
Busyness is a defence against being still and listening to the cries of the world and the cries of your own heart. The characters in Chinese for busyness translate as “heart killing”. You might see in your own life how busyness is an antidote for feeling deeply.
(Christina Feldman)
Our Restivals are festivals of rest, days dedicated to deep, slow, spacious, life-giving rest, rest in resistance to toxic busyness.
Expect lots of time to chat to friends (old and new), to draw, paint and sing, to snooze, to meditate and pray, to drink coffee and eat delicious food, to play games, to watch films and much much more…
To rest is not self indulgent, to rest is to prepare to give the best of ourselves, and to perhaps, most importantly, arrive at a place where we are able to understand what we have already been given.
(David Whyte)