Lectio Divina
I enjoyed reading this helpful article by Richard Foster on the practice of reading scripture called Lectio Divina. I like how this spiritual practice can help to temper our tendency to approach scripture with our fallible human intellect as the only/primary means of drawing benefit from the Word. Foster describes Lectio as “a way of listening to the bible rather than a way of reading it.”
And, to tell the truth, rather than listening to the Bible as such, we are trying to listen to God whom we believe addresses us in the Bible, and where we can best learn to understand the language of God and his ways among us. In fact, it is probably safer to think of lectio divina as a way of praying rather than of reading. In my own experience, I can certainly say that when prayer is tough going I have found guidance and encouragement from paying more attention to lectio divina: it is the best way I know of deepening my ability to listen to God and to open my rather stony heart to him in prayer.
Download the four page Word Doc from the Bible Society of the UK here.



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