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Sacred Intentions: Brother Lawrence on the Sanctification of Every Moment (Lectio Divina)
Most of us divide our lives into two categories: the sacred and the ordinary. We show up for worship, prayer, and praise — and then we return to everything else. But what if that division is exactly what Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection spent his life quietly dismantling? Drawing on his simple and searching…
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Did Not Our Hearts Burn: The Many Faces Of God (Lectio Divina)
Where does God meet us? Not only in the dramatic moments of Scripture — wrestling with Jacob at the ford of the Jabbok, speaking to Moses from a burning bush, leading Israel through the wilderness — but in the ordinary movements of our days. In this Lectio Divina reflection, Robert Van Valkenburgh draws on…
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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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She Changeth Her Working, But Not Her Love: Healing in the Broken and Ordinary (Lectio Divina)
A Lectio Divina reflection on healing through brokenness — drawn from a burnt sandwich and a crumbled piece of carrot cake on a daughter’s birthday. Anchored in Julian of Norwich’s vision of a love that changes its working but never its love, this post traces the unexpected grace that arrives in our most ordinary…