LECTIO DIVINA FLYER
Here is the flyer with the details for my upcoming lecture on Lectio Divina.
Mutinies and Miracles
It was the light of the Spirit catching the edges of an unexpected 16-year-old intellect and heart – the way the morning sun sometimes alights, like pink embers, upon the delicate edges of the clouds at dawn.
The Dying and Rising of Fatherhood
It is time for my fatherhood to fade into a graceful streak across his night time sky, like that shooting star: to give way in its light so that my son’s own light can shine.
The Temple in Spirit and Truth
This is worship in the Spirit. This is communion in the Spirit. It is as when a small fire, being brought into the presence of a larger fire, joins with it.
The Father’s Robe
He places upon the soul, the glorious robe of a beloved child. A robe that sings of the Father’s love; and the child is covered in it. It is a divine embrace. It is an exchange beyond words. It is a candle coming up against and getting taken up into flame.
Do Birds Build Barns?
God has created a natural order in which birds can – through presence of mind, through attention in the present – find that which they need to subsist. . . and you are more than the birds.
The Jesus Prayer
The Jesus Prayer is a perfect prayer. It is simple; it is deep; and it lacks nothing. The Jesus Prayer makes of the heart a temple where Jesus comes to make His dwelling place.
The Lance of the Inner Monk
A Psalm from the heart makes any place a temple. It is a vertical lance, a spear cast toward heaven, a single firework shot straight to its target in the heart of God.
The God of the Living
And here is where it really hit me. I have just lived through the process of Lectio Divina, in real time.
A Priest in Bemerton
The essence of the priesthood is love. And therefore priesthood is of the essence of life.