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- Born of the Spirit
A meditation with John 3:1-10, using imaginative contemplation and Lectio Divina. Art by Elsie Anna Wood (1887-1978) Blessings! Lissy Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio […]
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19 min - Zeal For Your House
A meditation in John’s Gospel, Chapter 2, Verses 13-22, using imaginative contemplation. This episode looks at the story of Jesus overthrowing the traders in the temple. I’m not in a position to offer authoritative information on the background of this story, but my understanding is that Jesus’ anger here is around the financial barriers that […]
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21 min - To The Brim
A meditation with John 2:1-12 (Water into Wine or the wedding at Cana), using imaginative contemplation. I encourage you to have a quick read of the scripture passage before starting this meditation, if you have time. You can find it in the NRSV here. One line that I don’t really offer in the meditation, but […]
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17 min - Under the Fig Tree
A meditation with John 1 verses 43-51 using breath work, body awareness, and imaginative contemplation. This is our seventh and final meditation in the remarkable chapter one in the book of John. The story opens with the wide, sweeping lens on the dawn of time as the word, the light births all of creation into […]
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19 min - Encounter
An audio meditation in John’s Gospel using Lectio Divina and Imaginative Contemplation, John 1:39-42. In these verses in John 1, we get a short glimpse of a brief, rather ordinary, and entirely transformative meeting. I picture this story happening near the Jordan river where John is baptising, announcing that the Kingdom of Heaven has come […]
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18 min - 10 Minute Meditation: BelovedAn audio meditation on your own belovedness and your existence as an expression of love.“I belong to my Beloved, and my Beloved belongs to me. He brought me to the banqueting house, his banner over me is love.”Song of Songs 2:4, 6:3This meditation invites you to take a little pause from all that is on your plate just now, to step aside and to remember that you are the beloved of Love Itself.As I sat with these words today I imagined a big banner flying over my kitchen with the word LOVE emblazoned on it. Although this may sound trite, it is actually the most serious truth we can hold as we engage with ourselves, the other people in our kitchens, and the world at large.You are the beloved, and your Divine Beloved delights in you.That is the whole story.BLESSINGS, DEAR ONE 💙💙💙Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.Sign up for Lissy’s newsletter “The Contemplative Window” or join our Facebook group hereSupport the show by sharing it with a friend, rating it on your preferred podcast platform, or by becoming a member for just a few $ or £ per month. Thank you so much!All music by Pete Hatch.11 min
- Come and SeeA meditation in John’s Gospel, chapter 1, verses 35-39, using Imaginative Contemplation.In this meditation we meet Andrew (the brother of Simon Peter) who is not yet a disciple of Jesus, but at this stage in the story, is a disciple of John the Baptist.Andrew is standing with John (likely at the Jordan River, where he has been baptising, and preaching his message about the one who comes after him), when Jesus walks by.And so the first encounter, the first dialogue with Jesus in John’s Gospel unfolds.“What are you looking for?”“Rabbi, where are you staying?”“Come and see”For me this exchange holds both the soul-searchingly deep and the very ordinary, physical stuff of our everyday lives, a pairing that holds the essence of incarnation.I hope this encounter will reveal something new to you as you pray with it. I’d love to know what you hear in it for you today.Blessings, always, dear ones.Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.Sign up for Lissy’s newsletter “The Contemplative Window” or join our Facebook group hereYou can support the show by sharing it with a friend, rating it on your preferred podcast platform, making a one-off donation or becoming a member. Thank you so much!All music by Pete Hatch.20 min
- The Lamb and the DoveAn audio meditation in John’s Gospel, chapter 1, verses 29-34.As an undergrad at Whitworth College, I took a class in John’s Gospel with F. Dale Bruner. I vividly recall Dale opening each session by translating the text into animated English out of the original Greek, which he held entirely memorised in his brain. I particularly remember his arm gestures as he put across the point: “he who comes behind me, ranks ahead of me, because he was before me.” (John 1:15, 1:30)A final assignment for the class was to make some kind of representation of each chapter of John’s Gospel. I made a small book of water colour paintings. One of the very few University assignments that is still with me, today it sits on my desk to guide me as I travel through John’s Gospel with Contemplative at Home,For the text in this meditation (which could be called John the Baptist’s sermon on the identity of Jesus) I have used Dale’s own translation as recorded his Commentary on the Gospel of John (Eerdmans). I find the language to be full of life and I hope it will open a new door for you as you listen, with the ears of your heart open.Every blessing as you pray.Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.Sign up for Lissy’s newsletter “The Contemplative Window” or join our Facebook group hereYou can support the show by sharing it with a friend, rating it on your preferred podcast platform, making a one-off donation or becoming a member. Thank you so much!All music by Pete Hatch.16 min
- A Voice in WildernessAn audio meditation in John’s Gospel, chapter 1, verses 19-28.The text for today’s meditation records a conversation between priests and John the Baptist. John has been baptising at Bethany at the Jordan, and huge numbers of people are coming to respond to his message that “the Kingdom of God is at hand” (Matthew 4). The chief priests send representatives from Jerusalem to ask some questions, to find out what the buzz is all about.They want to know if John is someone they are expecting, based on their reading and interpretation of the scriptures. Is John the Messiah, is he Elijah who ascended to heaven in a whirlwind and will return before the Messiah returns, or is this the prophet who Moses said would come before the Messiah?John says he is none of these, and instead seems to be inhabiting his own unique voice, his own unique vocation. I’m neither Elijah, nor anyone else you are expecting, in the way you are expecting them. I am myself, and I’m here to point towards something that is at hand, someone who is among you on whom the Spirit rests. (Jesus later says in Mt 11:14 “And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who is to come. Let anyone with ears to hear listen!”)I sense John inviting the interrogators to get out of their heads, to stop trying to puzzle out answers to match their expectations, and to open their hearts with curiosity to how the Spirit of God is at hand.I invite you to open yourself to this sense of the Holy, to let go of trying to puzzle it all out in your brain, and even as you listen and pray, when you sense the Spirit hovering, to allow yourself to receive it. Let it wash over you, let your self be immersed, even baptised, in Presence of the Holy, even if it comes in an unexpected guise.Every BlessingLissyContemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.Sign up for Lissy’s newsletter “The Contemplative Window” or join our Facebook group hereYou can support the show by sharing it with a friend, rating it on your preferred podcast platform, making a one-off donation or becoming a member. Thank you so much!All music by Pete Hatch.18 min
- Grace upon GraceA meditation in John’s Gospel, chapter 1, verses 14-17These words in my old paper Bible have so many little side notes, one word circled in the text with an accordion file of notes on the greek root and its myriad translations spilling into the margins. The unfolding possibilities in the meaning of these words is so rich, so beautiful and compelling that I have taken the liberty of adding them into my reading of the text for you today.My added words, are all based on the notes of (a) a scholar in Seattle whose name I did not record, teaching circa 1998 (b) the footnotes in my Oxford Annotated NRSV and (c) Strong’s notes on the greek in the MOUNCE translation on Bible Gateway.May the unfurling of these words, as they try in their own limited way to speak of the Word, the original breath of all that is, nestle into your heart and ignite some small fire of insight, of hope, of love.With every blessing,LissyContemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.Sign up for Lissy’s newsletter “The Contemplative Window” or join our Facebook group hereSupport the show by sharing it with a friend, rating it on your preferred podcast platform, or by becoming a member for just a few $ or £ per month. Thank you so much!All music by Pete Hatch.20 min
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