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The Opening and the Entering: Love Calling to Love (Lectio Divina)
Meister Eckhart teaches that God’s longing for us outpaces our longing for Him by a thousandfold — and that the opening He makes for us and the entering we make into Him are not two movements but one. This Lectio Divina takes that claim seriously: if our desire for God is already a response…
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Title: God’s Single Utterance: Augustine, Kairos, and Contemplative Discernment in Daily Life (Lectio Divina)
What if the debates that divide us over Scripture are missing the point entirely? Perhaps there is only one Word of God, and that Word is a Person. This reflection traces an ordinary Friday from morning prayer to a kitchen podcast moment, exploring how Augustine’s insight that God speaks one single Utterance resonates through…
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The First Word Was Love: A Prayer of Consent to the Love That Is All in All (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Teilhard de Chardin’s vision of Love as the agent of universal synthesis, this Lectio Divina meditates on Love as the first and last Word — before all things, within all things, and as all in all. A reflection on the cosmic and intimate dimensions of divine Love, culminating in a prayer of…
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Lectio Divina: He Who Made Them
Johannes Scotus Eriugena teaches that the beauty and form of the created world reveal the Word of God. By contemplating sensible things with spiritual insight, we come to know the Creator present in all creation, where truth ultimately points back to God alone.