I normally write to you on Mondays with a meditation, but today I felt moved to share something with you.
Recently I sensed a quiet nudge from God to add more Scripture to my daily routine.
If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that centering prayer is my mainstay. I practice it once or twice a day. It has become a must for me, mainly because I feel the difference when I miss it. My days simply go better when I sit in silence with God.
Alongside that practice, I’ve started adding a short Scripture rhythm.
One resource I’ve been enjoying is the Daily Gospel Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron. While I’m not Catholic, I still find his reflections thoughtful and grounding.
Inside the email, when you click “Read the Gospel,” it takes you to the full daily readings, typically a passage from the Old Testament, a Psalm, and a Gospel reading that the reflection is based on.
I’ve really been enjoying this mix of Scripture and reflection.
If you’d like to explore his daily meditations, you can check them out here.
I’m also currently listening to the book Read the Bible Like a Mystic by Carl McColman.
McColman describes several ways people commonly approach Scripture:
- Literalist – everything is taken as historically and factually true.
- Skeptical/atheist – the Bible is dismissed as myth or superstition.
- Historical-critical – scholars analyze history, culture, and authorship.
- Mystical – reading the Bible as a spiritual text that reveals God through contemplation and personal insight.
The mystical approach, which the book focuses on, tries to integrate the best of the others but moves beyond them into spiritual experience.
Mystics don’t read Scripture mainly to gather information. They read it to encounter God and to be transformed.
That perspective resonates deeply with me.
If you feel drawn to go a little deeper in your own practice, I created a free Centering Prayer ebook to help you begin.
It’s simple, practical, and will help you start sitting in silence with God.
If that approach speaks to you, you may want to check out his book here.
And if there’s one takeaway from this note, it’s this:
Trust the inner nudge when it invites you to act.
Sometimes those small promptings lead us exactly where we need to go.
I hope this was helpful for you today.
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