Area Two: Meditation or “Meditatio”

PART TWO, MEDITATION: To prepare for today, re-immerse in your experience from part one (Tuesday). After slowing down in silence or soft breath prayers, review reading and the reflection word or words you wrote down. If you skipped yesterday, start there rather than here so the devotional time will make sense.

Enter your words of reflection into  
your computer, laptop, notebook or journal.

Section two for us in Lectio Divina is meditation: Repeat that word or phrase that caught your attention, thinking about it in the presence of God – with God.

The repetition focuses attention and permits a deepening of awareness.

Pay attention to images, shapes, concepts, even colors or textures that occur as you pray. Notice memories and associations that arise in you, how this passage is touching you today. If you get distracted, simply return to the word or phrase that initially captured you. If a thought is something you need to remember, jot it down, then return to your meditation.

Enter your notes about images, shapes,
concepts, colors, textures, memories
and associations into
your computer, laptop, notebook or journal.

Since Wednesday is generally our Identity in Christ day in this devotional series, let’s add an identity relating to the reading we are focusing on: 

In Christ I am a treasure of God who gave his only Son in death that I might not perish but have life through eternity.

Micro-Meditation
Teaching or Command of God

Hebrews 3:13

Encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

Matthew 5:3

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 

Micro-Meditation
Pondering Point

Do an inventory of your spirit with the Holy Spirit: Do you find any deceit? If not, rejoice in the work of the Lord. If so, pray for God to remove all deceit as you live under his grace and extend that grace to others.

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