The passages below are for reading, meditation, and lectio this week. Feel free to post your comments or reflections. The prompts are also here for your use.
Isaiah 30:21
Jeremiah 6:16
Proverbs 4:23
Isaiah 50:4
2 Corinthians 3:18
Ephesians 1:18
Romans 8:5-6
Read: Seek a phrase or verse that attracts your attention. Repeat the phrase and savor it.
Reflect: What meaning is offered to you as you consider the phrase or verse?
Respond: What response do you have to the word? What is God’s invitation to you?
Rest: Relax in God’s transforming power and presence.
12/22/07
Dec 23-29 Advent Lectio: Kingdom Peace
The passages below are for reading, meditation, and lectio this week. Feel free to post your comments or reflections. The prompts are also here for your use.
Matthew 11:28-29
John 1:1-5
Luke 17:20-21
Matthew 13:31-32
Matthew 13:44
Luke 13:20-21
John 1:1-5
Luke 17:20-21
Matthew 13:31-32
Matthew 13:44
Luke 13:20-21
Matthew 13:45-46
Read: Seek a phrase or verse that attracts your attention. Repeat the phrase and savor it.
Reflect: What meaning is offered to you as you consider the phrase or verse?
Respond: What response do you have to the word? What is God’s invitation to you?
Rest: Relax in God’s transforming power and presence.
12/15/07
Incarnation: Honoring the Body
Christmas is a vivid reminder that God uses flesh and bones, hands and feet, voices and ears to spread his Kingdom in the world. Mary made herself available to God and literally had Christ formed in her own body. The result was the birth of a giddy mystery: Word-become-flesh; God with us!
This year in SFCC, we've been given the opportunity to read the chapter in Sacred Rhythms about honoring our own bodies. If you haven't had the chance yet, give yourself an hour or two to read and rest with this material.
If you have read the chapter, you might also enjoy this essay and its ideas for honoring our bodies.
An Act of Love
There's a new book out that I've seen in Starbucks and heard advertised on the radio. It's called Listening is an Act of Love, and it contains stories shared between friends and family, recorded by the StoryCorps Project. I haven't read it, but the title snags my attention every time I encounter it.
This week of Advent, we focus on love. And in the push and hurry of the season, I am challenged to make room for love by making room for attentive listening. God gives his ear to us. What can I do to better turn my ear to him? What can I do to listen better?
This week of Advent, we focus on love. And in the push and hurry of the season, I am challenged to make room for love by making room for attentive listening. God gives his ear to us. What can I do to better turn my ear to him? What can I do to listen better?
"Let us pray that, above all, God would make us listeners to himself, so that we may be neither idle nor self-sufficient; not rash in our deeds, but ever pausing to listen, and then to follow him, moving in consonance with his will."
~ Dr. Klaus Bockmuehl
Dec 16-22 Advent Lectio: Love
The passages below are for reading, meditation, and listneing this week. Feel free to post your comments or reflections. The prompts are also here for your use.
1 John 5:3
Isaiah 49:15-16
1 John 4:7-12
Ezekiel 34:11-12
Luke 2:34-35
1 John 3:1-2
Luke 1:46-55
Read: Seek a phrase or verse that attracts your attention. Repeat the phrase and savor it.
Reflect: What meaning is offered to you as you consider the phrase or verse?
Respond: What response do you have to the word? What is God’s invitation to you?
Rest: Relax in God’s transforming power and presence.
1 John 5:3
Isaiah 49:15-16
1 John 4:7-12
Ezekiel 34:11-12
Luke 2:34-35
1 John 3:1-2
Luke 1:46-55
Read: Seek a phrase or verse that attracts your attention. Repeat the phrase and savor it.
Reflect: What meaning is offered to you as you consider the phrase or verse?
Respond: What response do you have to the word? What is God’s invitation to you?
Rest: Relax in God’s transforming power and presence.
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