Driving Lectio Divina


Lectio Divina is a way to pray with Scripture. It can be tarced back to the 3rd century and is affective at getting the reader to pause and let God speak to them through his Word.
Lectio is one way to plant a seed in your children's heart about where they can find God. 

Lectio Divina has four steps and your children can be involved in each step. The steps are first lectio (reading), then meditation (mediation), next oratio (prayer) and finally contemplation (contemplation). This practice can be use for long or short periods of time depending on the needs of your family. Below is a simple format to follow in the car or at home.
  1. Ask everyone to pause for a moment before hearing the reading.
  2. Invite one of your children to read the scripture selection aloud slowly for everyone. Ask everyone to sit quietly for 1 minute after you have heard the reading.
  3. Ask a child to reread the story. And then pause again.
  4. Invite the children to tell you what happening in the scripture.
    • Ask them what they saw in their head while they were reading.
    • Ask what they remember and what surprised them.
    •  Ask them what they would say to God about what they just heard.
      5.  Finally invite your family to be silent for 1-2 minutes and listen for God’s response. 

This is a powerful means of pray and a wonderful way to experience scripture with your children. It invites them to us the imagination that God gave them to understand who God is and what God has planned for us.

Today is: Psalm 25:1-5

1 To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul; my God, I put my trust in you; *
let me not be humiliated, nor let my enemies triumph over me.
2 Let none who look to you be put to shame; *
let the treacherous be disappointed in their schemes.
3 Show me your ways, O Lord, *
and teach me your paths.
4 Lead me in your truth and teach me, *
for you are the God of my salvation; in you have I trusted all the day long.
5 Remember, O Lord, your compassion and love, *
for they are from everlasting.



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