tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25987874.post1051732218694899759..comments2023-10-05T06:20:40.173-04:00Comments on Quaker Pagan Reflections: Another Kind of Lectio Divina?Cat C-B (and/or Peter B)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10002916434676859262noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25987874.post-89766018728118988482010-11-15T15:50:19.363-05:002010-11-15T15:50:19.363-05:00I just found this old post through Pax's Chrys...I just found this old post through Pax's Chrysalis blog (http://chrysalis1witchesjourney.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/alyss-asks-8-virtues-prayer/) and am so glad I did.<br /><br />Amen again and again to fiction as lecto divina! I've actually been getting really into poetry recently and think it is because good poetry has a way of taking the big things in life and making them... beautiful.<br /><br />Thanks for all your inspiring words :)Alysshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04820396354932192545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25987874.post-91276533395521672652009-03-13T11:50:00.000-04:002009-03-13T11:50:00.000-04:00Yes to novels, yes to blogs (yours included), yes ...Yes to novels, yes to blogs (yours included), yes to stories that don't flinch from the complicated truths... yes to lots of things. I totally get the value of setting aside time to read stuff chosen for probable spiritaul value. But the other thing is... if you are open to Messages, and a Message wants to find you, it will use whatever is handy. Makes it hard to draw lines around which reading is or isn't lectio divina. Guess it's more about what frame of mind you're in, than which book you're reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25987874.post-69113948314393640332009-03-08T16:13:00.000-04:002009-03-08T16:13:00.000-04:00oops, posted the previous comment before I had fin...oops, posted the previous comment before I had finished it... the Victoria Weinstein piece is lectio divina indeed, like most of her writing.Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25987874.post-91216924609703200202009-03-08T16:12:00.000-04:002009-03-08T16:12:00.000-04:00Oh yes, I love the dark morris idea ... Terry Pra...Oh yes, I love the dark morris idea ... Terry Pratchett writes Pagan theology ;)<BR/><BR/>I've just been reading this <A HREF="http://www.firstparishnorwell.org/sermons/naming.html" REL="nofollow">meditation on September 11 and God as a process by Victoria Weinstein</A>Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25987874.post-33555723031178964862009-03-08T14:11:00.000-04:002009-03-08T14:11:00.000-04:00Thanks, Yewtree -- and how could I have forgotten...Thanks, Yewtree -- and how could I have forgotten Terry Pratchett! There is a paragraph in _Reaper Man_ that I would have no trouble reading at a funeral, about the Morris Dancers who do the Other Morris Dance at the ending of the year, wearing black and dancing silently. "You have to do both, they say. Otherwise, you can't do either."<BR/><BR/>Yes to _Small Gods_ as well; _Pyramids_ also has some interesting ideas about divinity. And _Hogfather_, with its powerful description of how a myth functions.<BR/><BR/>Lectio divina indeed!<BR/><BR/>MarilynAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25987874.post-54642254760334350972009-03-07T16:39:00.000-05:002009-03-07T16:39:00.000-05:00Novels as lectio divina - amen to that. My favour...Novels as lectio divina - amen to that. My favourite is Robertson Davies - wonderfully insightful and also spiritually illuminating; full of compassion and wisdom.<BR/><BR/>On a lighter note, I also find the novels of Terry Pratchett illuminating in so many ways. <EM>Small Gods</EM>, for instance, offers a plausible explanation for the arising of gods and a trenchant critique of fundamentalism.<BR/><BR/>@ Marilyn: Yes I love <EM>The Secret Garden</EM>! And that is a great line; and an excellent one on which to base a theology. I love Rumer Godden too (my favourite is <EM>The Diddakoi</EM>), so will check that out.Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25987874.post-13960943327661388022009-03-07T16:01:00.000-05:002009-03-07T16:01:00.000-05:00I've had wonderful experiences with another kind o...I've had wonderful experiences with another kind of lectio divina called "visio divina" - mediation on images (http://www.centerforsacredart.org/). Very powerful. Looking forward to hearing more from your experiences :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25987874.post-61015366500754748402009-03-07T13:43:00.000-05:002009-03-07T13:43:00.000-05:00Oh, Cat! Some of my best spiritual reading comes ...Oh, Cat! Some of my best spiritual reading comes from novels -- and re-reading! Have you read _In This House of Brede_ by Rumor Godden? I try to re-read this one every so often, along with _The Secret Garden_ (which contains my life-long theological statement about The Big Good Thing: "Eh, lad, lad: what's names to The Joymaker?")<BR/><BR/>And yes, DO read _The Courage to Teach_. As a Friend and a teacher, it is a gift -- and a delight!<BR/><BR/>MarilynAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com