Meditation in a Christian Tradition

meditation in secular and pagan traditions has an entirely different goal and foundation than meditation does in a christian tradition. I think there's also some hesitancy about sitting with a text and just simply quietly asking the lord to speak to us. There have been people who've said that doing something like that constitutes, you know, a buddhist way of approaching god. And i would say that' that's not true. The whole point of this process is simply to dwell in the presence of god.