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Right off the bat, I liked our little essay we read. I felt like it was going to be humorous and I totally related with the writer! I mean, half the stuff we read I don’t understand, and apparently he experienced the same thing. Of course, what’s different about him is that he probably had actual reason for not understand, whereas I just don’t have that developed of a brain.

The first time I ever had any experience with lectio divina was last year in first teams, actually. Our first teams leader explained to us what it was and the purpose of it, and we exercised it a few times. I feel like this is something that can really benefit us in our spiritual walk, while we are trying to dive deep into God’s Word. I have never thought about doing this with literature other than Scripture. In fact, I ashamedly say that I haven’t thought about it at all since that time we did it in first teams. However, now that I’ve read this essay, it does make me want to give it a shot again.

I wasn’t in class on Tuesday, unfortunately, but I heard that you guys practiced this with the Sonny story. I wasn’t there, so maybe that is why I fail to understand how that could benefit us at all. Personally, I did not like the story we had to read for class, so maybe that is why I don’t think it would have done me any good. I guess I really shouldn’t knock it till I try it though, right? Whenever I re-read the section for tomorrow’s class, maybe I will give it a whirl.

Anyway, back to what I was saying about doing lectio divina with other literature. I think it is an interesting concept that he brought up. I’m sure he’s not the only that thought of it, of course. But I think maybe it would help me to understand some things that I would usually have trouble understanding. Like if there was a poem or something of that nature that I found particularly difficult to understand, maybe if I gave this a try, it would help me to understand it better.