Part of the fun of infections are the little side effects, like dizziness. It's not serious, but enough to keep me from driving a car. The road to Gethsemani from Bardstown is too curvy for me to try to drive out there this morning.
That doesn't stop happiness though. No, I don't wanna sing the Ren and Stimpy "Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy" song, but I am happy that when I wake up my thoughts turn to God. There is something wonderful about reading the long vigil psalms while you wake up, the words gradually making sense. That way the thoughts are trained to focus on the center--God.
My Lectio for the past two days has been on a couple of verses from Ephesians 3.16-17, 19b.
"I ask God from the wealth of his glory
to give you power through his Spirit
to be strong in your inner selves,
and I pray that Christ
will make his home in your hearts through faith...
[that you] be completely filled with the very nature of God." Today's English Version
The implication that inner strength comes from the glory of God, is astonishing. How often do we think about it that way, that the strength we pray for comes to us from God's own glory? Or, that we can be filled with the "very nature of God?"
During the course of my life I've read Ephesians many, many times. Yet, reading those verses were like the first time. Lectio is so powerful a tool for prayer that I haven't yet exhausted the verses of meaning.
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