Lectio Divina

Lectio Divina

Lectio divina comprises four elements: lectio (we read the text), meditation (we meditate the text), oratio (we pray the text), and contemplation (we live the text)…Reading (lectio) is a linear act, but spiritual (divina) reading is not—any of the elements may be at the fore at any one time.

Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006), 91.

Devotional Use of the Bible

What I mean to insist upon is that spiritual writing – Spirit-sourced writing – requires spiritual reading, a reading that honors words as holy, words as a basic means of forming an intricate web of relationships between God and the human, between all things visible and invisible.

Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006), 4