Finishing Lectio Part III

Since taking on the task of writing the formation program I've noticed it's getting progressively harder. The section on Lectio Divina was finished today, and in some ways it was like pulling teeth. You wouldn't think it would be so hard to work out a semi-coherent section of study on Lectio, but you'd be wrong.

The problem is that writing about Lectio is writing about encounter with God. No one on earth can teach you how to encounter God. We can teach each other what method we use to get into our "sacred space" and how to select our passage, and how to recite it thus and so, but nothing, nothing, nothing, can tell us how to encounter God.

Why? Because the encounter isn't up to us. It is entirely up to God. All we can do is teach theory and mechanics, the reality has to be experienced. Experience comes from God. We can get you ready for it, but we can't give you the experience.

And now for poetry.
John Donne

HOLY SONNETS.

XVI.

Father, part of His double interest
Unto Thy kingdom Thy Son gives to me ;
His jointure in the knotty Trinity
He keeps, and gives to me his death's conquest.
This Lamb, whose death with life the world hath blest,
Was from the world's beginning slain, and He
Hath made two wills, which with the legacy
Of His and Thy kingdom do thy sons invest.
Yet such are these laws, that men argue yet
Whether a man those statutes can fulfil.
None doth ; but thy all-healing grace and Spirit
Revive again what law and letter kill.
Thy law's abridgement, and Thy last command
Is all but love ; O let this last Will stand !