Over the past year I have attended regularly two groups that practice Lectio Divina--Holy Reading. I am always amazed at the power of this ancient spiritual practice. Although we usually read scriptural passages that are very familiar, the insights that arise from them are fresh and inspiring.
How can such familiar words take on new and invigorating meanings? How can a each person latch on to a different word or phrase, glean something vastly different from it, and yet as we share somehow there is a unifying theme and revelation that emerges? How can it be such an individual experience, each person relating to the scriptures differently and hearing a very personalized message, yet it is also a corporate experience, the group as a whole experiences the Holy together?
Ah, that is the Mystery of Lectio Divina. The Mystery that makes the scriptures not static and unchanging but dynamic and alive. The Mystery of the One enigmatically self-named "I Am Who I Am."
A Mystery that I don't fully understand but I treasure and savor the experience month after month.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
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