Let us commit ourselves to slow, deliberate reading. This kind of engagement is not about collecting insights or checking off a spiritual practice. We return to the text again and again, not to extract content but to be made receptive. In this posture, something deeper takes shape. The words meet us where we are. Sometimes they unsettle, sometimes console. Either way, the text reads us as much as we read it. In and through text, one comes face-to-face with Spirit. Through this rhythm—reading, reflecting, praying, and resting—we do not control what happens. We allow. We do not aim for achievement. We allow formation. The text becomes a doorway, not a destination. When we stay with it long enough, we begin to live with it rather than study it.
May we go forth with hearts open,
allowing the sacred text to draw us face-to-face
with Spirit in stillness and surrender.
(inspired by Beverly Lanzetta, A New Silence)