One way to engage with the labyrinth as a spiritual practice is to follow a three step model:
1. As you move toward the center, release the details, stresses and demands of life.
2. When you reach the center, having quieted your mind, enter into a time of meditation and prayer. Take in whatever it is God might be illuminating.
3. Leave the center. As you retrace your steps outward, enter into union with God in Christ, seeking to reflect Christ's incarnation in your own engagement with the world.
I found this practice to be beautiful, beneficial, and fruitful. I was inspired to write the following psalm after walking the labyrinth.
Father-Mother God,
Sustainer of life and Great Comforter,
I long for Your refreshing
as for life-giving water.
I delight in Your presence
like the taste of honey on my tongue
Your sweetness renews life in my weary bones.
I am captivated by Your grace.
You lavish me with Your presence,
and my heart, my whole being,
is imprisoned with awe.
Yawhweh is Most High!
Let the earth bow down in worship!
May it so be in me this day.
Amen.