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So, what's the point?

I just posted that long essay on how lectio divina got lost over the course of time. It helps to see that there are many ways to understand Scripture and to interpret the revelatory text.

My book, Lectio Matters before the burning bush will be out in September, as I understand from Continuum's email to Mercedes last week.

This gives us more time to prepare for that text. I feel like it is more important to experience lectio than to know about it so I'm shifting my web site into just doing lectio.

Sometimes I'll enter through the door of Scripture, the hallowed medium. Other times I'll post for your consideration the revelatory texts of nature, and of experience.

When you see it and feel it....all the revelatory texts are simply some form of the experience. Hopefully the text is more of a transmission than a commentary.

I have just viewed the photo section in the New York Times the Chile earthquake report. No amount of words can tally the one glance at one of those revealing pictures. The look of loss, the total collapse of buildings, the sleeping in the street of ordinary people who suddenly lost their homes.

Those images I carried in my mind's eye to Morning Lauds and Eucharist. We prayed for them out loud during the petitions and offered their suffering for healing and solace.

So, the point is to actually "do" lectio on this web site the rest of lent:

*it maybe just a word, a photo or a color that we pause as did Moses before that burning bush.