Find comfort in your seat.
Rest your shoulders.
Let your breathing slow.
As you settle and the thoughts try to find their place,
Let them pass.
Continue breathing as you listen to the reading of Proverbs,
Chapter 2.
If you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
And if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
Then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
For the Lord gives wisdom.
From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
He holds success in store for the upright.
He is a shield to those who walk,
Is blameless.
For he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
Then you will understand what is right and just and fair,
Every good path.
For wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Discretion will protect you and understanding will guard you.
Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men.
For men whose words are perverse,
Who have left the straight path to walk in dark ways,
Who delight in wrongdoing and rejoice in the perversiveness of evil,
Whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,
From the wayward woman with her seductive words,
Who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
Surely her house leads down to death and her paths the spirits of the dead,
None who go to her return or tame the paths of life.
Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous for the upright will live in the land and the blamers will remain in it,
But the wicked will be cut off from the land and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
If you are unsure about your path,
What to do next,
What decision to make,
How to handle a situation,
Seek God's infinite wisdom.
Take another deep breath and as you prepare to leave this meditation,
Keep God's word close in your heart.
