Episode 755
In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner, an American writer and theologian. Today we’re reading a selection from “Boredom.”
To be bored is to turn down cold whatever life happens to be offering you at the moment. It is to cast a jaundiced eye at life in general including most of all your own life….To be bored is a way of making the least of things you often have a sneaking suspicion you need the most.
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Don’t understand this one…. To be bored is a way of making the least of things you often have a sneaking suspicion you need the most.
Hi Jackie, I just realized I overlooked approving your comment while I was on vacation. Oops! I’m so sorry I didn’t notice it until now. I’m glad you shared your thoughts, and the next time any comments you leave on any post should show up immediately. Now to your comment… While I do try to make selections that offer a complete thought, the goal of lectio divina is to practice discerning not so much the author’s intent but engaging with the movement of God’s spirit in the present moment by noticing what is stirred up in you through the reading. It sounds like for you what rose to the surface was confusion. Might there be a response that the Holy is inviting in you using the confusion that you noticed?