The Chair

 I was visiting with a mother of two young children.  They were under the age of 6.  It occurred to me that wherever the mother sat she could see what the children were doing.  She never sat with her back to the children.  If they were all at the table eating, she could sit and see them.  If they got up to go and play in another part of the room, she would change her seat.  Always the view.  God is like that.  We can be as little children, and God is always aware of us and available to clean up our mess if we are not able, while giving us a child-like free will to learn, grow, and yes, mess up.  God wants us to grow and is like a mother to us.  We have freedom, and yet God is aware.  Meditation is when I stop and become aware of God.  My chair of meditation, is so that I can become open to a view of God in the deeper part of my heart.