Remember to Pay Attention

I believe there are two basic spiritual disciplines. First is to remember daily  the One who is the source of life, light and love. Remembering should be easy and natural. Truth is we are easily distracted. I recall Steve Sjogren explaining why he talked about his church's mission every week. He said something like: God is really smart.  The Lord understands that we can only remember something for a short time. So we worship weekly to remind us of what is important.
The second discipline (once we've remembered) is to pay attention. Most of our practices simply remind us and provide ways to be attentive to the presence and power of the One who knows each of us by name.
My daughter, Catherine, gifted me with an introduction to a poet, Denise Levertov, who wrote about all this.

Flickering Mind - Denise Levertov

Not for one second
will myself hold still, but wanders
anywhere,
everywhere it can turn. Not you,
it is I am absent.
You are the stream, the fish, the light,
the pulsing shadow,
you the unchanging presence, in whom all
moves and changes.
How can I focus my flickering, perceive
at the fountain's heart
the sapphire I know is there?