Saturday, August 2, 2014

Lectio Divina: a morning meditation

Sophia: We have to be quiet because Mama's sleeping. Shh, be quiet, quietly.

Me: Ok, I'll be quiet.

Sophia: (picking up her pocket Gideon Bible from off the couch) I'm going to look for "quietly" in my Bible. 

She holds it open and upside down, with a finger underlining the text, she begins chanting softly: "Quietly, quietly, quietly, quietly, quietly, quietly...."

Me: (whispering) Ok, I got it, Sophia.

Sophia: When it's quiet, humans have to yawn because they're human and it's quiet....

(Somehow I don't think she'd make a very quiet Trappist nun anytime soon...)