About ABBA
A simple daily practice of turning toward God
ABBA is a 7-minute daily practice created to help you become still, turn your attention toward God, and rest in His presence.
It is rooted in Christian prayer, Scripture, and the relationship Jesus reveals with the Father, while also being informed by neuroscience and the study of attention, contemplation, habit, and the nervous system.
The purpose is simple: to make space for God every day.
Not only when life becomes difficult.
Not only during worship or formal prayer.
But as a daily rhythm of stillness, trust, gratitude, surrender, and connection.
Why ABBA?
Modern life constantly competes for our attention.
Noise, responsibilities, fear, screens, plans, and endless mental activity can leave very little inner space for stillness.
ABBA is an intentional interruption.
For seven minutes, you step away from what is demanding your attention and turn toward God.
You do not need to achieve a special state, empty your mind, or perform the practice perfectly.
You simply come as you are.
Become still.
Turn toward God.
Listen.
Trust.
Rest.
Why the name ABBA?
In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus prays:
“Abba, Father.”
The word Abba expresses the closeness, trust, and dependence of a child turning toward a loving father.
That relationship is at the heart of the practice.
ABBA is not about striving to reach God or trying to manufacture a spiritual experience.
It is about learning to approach Him with openness, honesty, trust, and childlike dependence — again and again.
Prayer and the Mind
ABBA begins with faith, not neuroscience.
Science cannot measure God, define prayer, or explain the relationship between a person and the Divine.
But neuroscience can help us understand something about the human side of spiritual practice.
What we repeatedly give our attention to matters.
Research on contemplative practices suggests that repeated periods of stillness, focused attention, prayer, gratitude, and reflection can influence patterns of attention, emotional regulation, stress response, and habit formation.
The brain changes through repeated experience.
Our patterns of attention become practiced patterns.
ABBA uses this understanding intentionally.
For seven minutes, instead of allowing attention to be carried entirely by worry, distraction, planning, or stimulation, we deliberately redirect it toward God.
The science helps us understand what may be happening within us.
It does not attempt to explain what may be happening between us and God.
God remains the center of the practice.
The practice
Each ABBA practice lasts approximately seven minutes.
Through gentle guidance, prayer, Scripture, silence, gratitude, trust, and reflection, you are invited to move from the noise of ordinary life into a quieter orientation toward God.
The goal is not simply to become good at seven minutes of prayer.
The deeper purpose is for the practice to gradually influence the rest of your day.
To remember God more often.
To return to Him more easily.
To trust more deeply.
To become less governed by fear and distraction.
To grow in gratitude, humility, forgiveness, love, and surrender.
And to make awareness of God part of the rhythm of everyday life.
A practice, not a performance
Some days you may feel peaceful.
Some days your mind may wander.
Some days prayer may feel deeply meaningful, and other days it may feel quiet or ordinary.
None of these experiences determine whether you have practiced well.
ABBA does not ask you to produce a particular feeling.
The practice is simply the act of returning.
Returning your attention.
Returning your trust.
Returning your heart toward God.
Again and again.
Begin simply
You do not need special knowledge, previous meditation experience, or a perfect spiritual life.
You only need a few quiet minutes and a willingness to turn toward God.
