Desire

In meditation, let go of your desire to experience the Presence of your God.  Why?  Isn't that the reason you tried to enter into meditation?  Who wants to take a walk in nature and not look for the floral to make you feel better and full?  Well, if you desire something when you begin your effort, it will be your imagination at work.  And your imagination may quite easily feed your desire.  I try to enter into this meditative relationship, and it is a relationship, letting go of the desire for anything.  This way, should the Presence reveal its shy self, it will be real, not my conjuring up.  It will be the really Real and not a figment of my efforts.  The heart opens to the movement of grace, gift that comes in the darkness.  As the paradox goes, 

"You begin to hear God when you cease to listen."