Pray As You Go

I've been listening to some of the meditations at a website called Pray As You Go.

It's pretty good. They're very low key. They don't say much, but if you're really paying attention they're saying a lot.

It's from an organization in England, I believe, and they're some kind of Jesuit fellowship. That's Catholic, and they quote the Pope pretty often. Who, really, I can take or leave. But that's neither here nor there. He's their leader, so they quote him once in a while. His quotes are all pretty normal sounding. He's not excommunicating anyone over political differences in the quotes.

The format is the same for the five or six meditations I've heard. They have a theme song for the day. It plays for a while. A guy with a breathy, intimate voice comes on and makes a few comments about their theme, getting you ready to hear some verses from the Bible. Then maybe a little more of the song. Then a woman, whose voice is like the women on History channel documentaries about the Bible, in the way she reads, comes on and reads a passage of Scripture. The man comes in and says a few more things, sometimes with big gaps between his sentence, allowing the listener time to meditate on it. Then toward the end they replay the woman reading the verses. Then he, another woman, another guy, and some other people say, "Glory be to the Father," etc.

I like hearing it. I didn't like hearing Friday's meditation quite as much, since it was some African group doing a chant, the same thing over and over for the whole time. With the volume down for when the man was talking. But the message is pretty good. It makes me think.

The neat thing is they take some of these verses that go in one ear and out the other when you're reading them from the Bible -- like God chastising Israel for something in Isaiah -- and they have a good spin on them that makes you feel like you're being addressed. I'm always interested in compelling applications for such things, and they do a good jog. And like I said, it's all very low key. They're not beating the thing to death but seem to trust you're going to catch their drift the first or second time you hear it.

Personally, I would prefer hearing a little more of the man talking and a little less of the music. Also a little less of the big huge pauses. But that's just me. Maybe geared a little more toward hearing the application and explanations than having to fill in the gaps myself.

Check it out.