Exploring Peace Meditations
Seeking peace in your life? Exploring Peace Meditations offers you Soul Care through guided prayer and Christian meditation. Caring for your soul is vital to living a peace-filled and purposeful life. Join author, yoga teacher, spiritual director, and host Whitney R. Simpson for a regular dose of peace and calm for your breath, body, and spirit as you explore these practical meditations. Using yoga teachings and ancient spiritual tools such as the Prayer of Examen, Lectio Divina, and Breath Prayer allows Whitney to companion you on your spiritual formation journey. Are you a Peace Seeker? Join our community at ExploringPeace.com/community.
Exploring Peace Meditations
Lectio Divina: Be Love
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The season of Ordinary Time on the Christian calendar begins with an invitation to BE with God and sense God's love in this time of meditation.
Listen to 1 John 4:16 in the style of Lectio Divina. Be open to the path of receiving love, being love, and staying close to God's love as you breathe today.
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Hi, this is Whitney. You're listening to Exploring Peace Meditations. I'd like to invite you to any posture in which you can be present. This might be a seated posture in a chair, against a wall, on the floor, or a reclined posture more of a shavasana, arms resting by your side. Whatever your chosen shape, allow yourself to take a full breath in and a long breath out, and a long breath out. Today we are invited into the practice of Lectio Divina, latin for sacred or divine reading. I'll invite you to hear a passage. Sit in the quiet and notice what stirs. I'll repeat the passage a few times. Just allow yourself to be present, to be still and to be loved by God. 1 John 4, verse 16 in the Common English Bible. We have known and have believed the love that God has for us. God is love and those who remain in love remain in God and God remains in them. Remain in god and god remains in them in the quiet, just be with this passage.
Speaker 1Now listen again and see if there is a specific word or phrase that stands out to you today from this particular translation, from this verse.
Speaker 1We have known and have believed the love that God has for us.
Speaker 1God is love, and those who remain in love remain in God and God remains in them in the quiet. Ponder the word, words or phrase that stand out to you. Now listen again. You're still breathing this time. As you listen, notice if there is an invitation for you, an invitation in your own life. Imagine Jesus is right here with you now and invites you to hear something that's just for you. We have known and have believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who remain in love remain in God and God remains in them. No-transcript. Keep breathing.
Speaker 1How might you respond? How might you respond? How might you respond? What might you say to Jesus' invitation, as Jesus sits with you now?
Speaker 1What might you say in response to this passage, to God's word, to what you're hearing in your life? We have known and have believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who remain in love remain in God and God remains in them. Respond to any invitation you might be hearing, sensing, noticing, if it helps to imagine Jesus at your side. Now tell him. Tell him in the silence. How do you respond?
Speaker 1Listen one last time. This time you will rest in what you are hearing, in the quiet that follows. Just be. We have known and have believed the love that God has for us. God is love and those who remain in love remain in God and God remains in them. Rest in God's word. Rest in what you've sensed, heard or noticed in this time of holy listening. Thank you, loving God. Thank you for loving us. Help us receive your love and be love. Help us remain in your love and help us remain close to you. In your holy name, we pray Amen. Take a full breath in and a long breath out as you return to your space. I invite you to be love. Thanks for exploring the gift of God's peace with me. If you'd like to connect beyond this time, you can find more about the podcast at exploringpeacecom slash community. You can find me and my books at WhitneyRSimpsoncom. Until next time, may God's peace be with you you.
