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Prayer & Lectio Divina

Very often my prayer begins in Scripture or is nourished by it. As St. Ambrose observed, we speak to the Lord when we pray, and we listen to him when we read his word. Here you’ll find posts about lectio divina (the practice of pondering Scripture until it becomes prayer) and other forms of prayer, both how and why to use them. Explore the posts below (pictured with the most recent first)  or  start  with  one  of  the  ones  listed  here:

  • Read the Bible Like a Disciple
  • Flourishing in Drought (a 4-part series on lectio divina)
  • God Hears Our Prayers
  • Why Pray, if it Doesn’t Always “Work”?

 

Woman's finger reaching to touch Jesus' cloak
COME INTO THE WORD: A Healing Encounter With Jesus (Mark 5:22-43)
The mural fills an entire wall of the Encounter Chapel, which is built on the first-century stone floor of the marketplace at Magdala by the Sea of Galilee. In it, sandals crowd the floor and linen robes brush against the legs and ankles of the men who throng around Jesus. He is a man on a mission, on his way ...
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hand in water, reachin up for help
WHY WOULD GOD LISTEN TO ME? – Psalm 86
I always think of what to say after the conversation’s over. For an hour I sat and listened to my friend complain. The world is falling apart, she fears. “And can you believe those people who pray about every little problem — do they think God cares about a parking space?!” She was incensed. “God has way too much on his ...
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hand in water, reachin up for help
“HOW LONG, O LORD, HOW LONG?” – Psalm 13
I remember the day it all got to be too much for me. Our house had finally sold after two years sitting empty, but that hardly made a difference. We sold at a loss, and my husband had been without work for months. There was no money in the bank. We had a toddler and a baby to care for, ...
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hand in water, reachin up for help
HELP! (WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?) – Psalm 121
I hated walking home after Daylight Savings ended. I didn't live far from where I babysat, but the road wasn't lit. Not even houses along the way—houses of people I knew, who were friendly—erased the nagging fear that something could happen, I could be hurt, and no one would come to my aid. I'd clutch my bag, walk tall, then ...
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hand in water, reachin up for help
LORD, MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME!
"O God, come to my assistance; O LORD, make haste to help me!" Who hasn't prayed this, or something like it, at some time in their life? It comes from Psalm 70, where it is a strong cry for rescue. But those words are far more than a cry for help. The early desert fathers repeated that verse throughout the ...
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Transformed by God's Word - book cover
TRANSFORMED BY GOD’S WORD: A wonderful new book by Stephen Binz
Have you heard of visio divina? I hadn’t, until I was asked to review Transformed by God’s Word, a wonderful new book by Stephen Binz. Immediately, I was intrigued by the subtitle: Discovering the Power of Lectio and Visio Divina. Lectio divina, I know well. But visio? Visio divina—“sacred seeing”— is an Eastern Orthodox tradition of contemplating sacred images, allowing ...
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empty bird's nest among vines
GOD HEARS OUR PRAYERS
I was just one of many pilgrims on the Mount of Beatitudes by the Sea of Galilee, looking for a private place to pray. We all wanted the same thing: shade from the sun, a good view of the water, and a flat rock to sit on. I finally found a spot on a lonely slope -- lonely because the ...
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WHY PRAY, IF IT DOESN’T ALWAYS “WORK”?
(Traducción en español al final) I heard twice from a friend last week, big news about others:  one, a mutual acquaintance who suffered years after an accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down, who then got cancer.  His funeral this month was a testimony to his faith and the joy he found, in spite of his suffering, in ...
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A TREE GROWS IN JAFFA: are you (spiritually) a “potted plant”?
Hidden in a courtyard in the winding, cobbled streets of Jaffa*, near Tel Aviv, is a hanging orange tree.  Seen through a nearby arch it looks surreal, as though it's trying to break out of the giant suspended pottery egg that holds it. Some miracle of engineering must keep it fed and watered, or someone tends it carefully.  Can it ...
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