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Daily Lectio Divina: Our griefs

laurakcav Podcast, Wisdom from Rilke February 20, 2019February 17, 2019Podcast, Rainer Maria Rilke

Repost of Episode 419

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wisdom from Rilke using selections from Letters to a Young Poet by the Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke. This week’s theme is Waiting in the Struggle, and today’s reading comes again from The Eighth Letter.

[Our griefs] are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unfamiliar. Our feelings become mute in timid shyness. Everything within us steps back; a silence ensues, and the something new, known to no one, stands in the center and is silent.

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Daily Lectio Divina: Oh! May the God of green hope

laurakcav Blessings, Podcast February 19, 2019February 10, 2019Podcast, Romans

Repost of Episode 660

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re concluding our series on Blessings for a New Year by reading Romans 15:13.

Oh! May the God of green hope
fill you up with joy,
fill you up with peace,
so that your believing lives,
filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit,
will brim over with hope!

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Daily Lectio Divina: Hildegard of Bingen

laurakcav Gaining Wisdom, Podcast February 18, 2019February 10, 2019hildegard of bingen, Podcast

Repost of Episode 577

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Gaining Wisdom using selections from A Little Daily Wisdom: Christian Women Mystics by Carmen Acevedo Butcher. Today we’re using a selection from Hildegard of Bingen’s “Hymn.”

I flame out––intense, godly Life––over the shining fields of corn,
I glow in the shimmer of the fire’s embers,
I burn in the sun and the moon and the stars.
The secret Life of Me breathes in the wind
and holds all things together soulfully.

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Daily Lectio Divina: O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go

laurakcav Favorite Hymns, Podcast February 15, 2019February 10, 2019Podcast

Repost of Episode 206

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using a selection from “O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go” by George Matheson.

O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not vain,
That morn shall tearless be.

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Daily Lectio Divina: Prayer and Rest

laurakcav Henri Nouwen's The Way of the Heart, Podcast February 14, 2019February 10, 2019Henri Nouwen, Podcast

Repost of Episode 141

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using selected readings from Henri Nouwen‘s book The Way of the Heart: Connecting with God through Prayer, Wisdom, and Silence. This week we’re reading from the chapter on Prayer.

The literal translation of the words “pray always” is “come to rest.” The Greek word for rest is hesychia…The prayer of the hesychasts is a prayer of rest…a rest in God in the midst of a very intense daily struggle….The prayer of the hesychasts is a prayer of the heart.

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Daily Lectio Divina: Ephesians 3:16-19

laurakcav Podcast, Prayers for the People of God February 13, 2019February 10, 2019Ephesians, Podcast

Repost of Episode 40

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using another of Paul’s prayers for the Ephesians (Eph 3:16-19). Use the audio player below, or right click here to download the file.

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Daily Lectio Divina: Dwelling in the mountains #5

laurakcav Podcast, Rivers-and-Mountains February 12, 2019February 10, 2019Podcast

Repost of Episode 381

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re starting a new series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun. Today we’re using a selection from “Dwelling in the mountains #5.”

I devoted myself to simplicity and returned to it all,

left that workaday life for this wisdom of wandering,
for this wilderness of rivers-and-mountains clarity.

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Daily Lectio Divina: Mary Oliver

laurakcav Inner Journey, Podcast February 11, 2019February 10, 2019Mary Oliver, Podcast

While our household recovers from a bout of the flu, please enjoy this randomized handful of episodes from prior series. We’ll be back with more of Isaiah 28 just as soon as I’ve recovered enough to return to recording.

Repost of Episode 594

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Inner Journey using a selection from “The Journey” by American poet Mary Oliver.

…But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world…

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