{"id":2035,"date":"2013-02-06T18:13:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T02:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2013-02-06T18:20:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T02:20:27","slug":"lectio-divina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/lectio-divina\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectio Divina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I experienced my first <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lectio_Divina\" target=\"_blank\">Lectio Divina<\/a> today. I enjoyed the 55 minutes of meditating on one passage of the Bible along with 7 other ladies. It gave me a relaxed time to focus on God and silent prayer. There was no pressure to talk, although I did share my thoughts. And it was good to hear what some of the other ladies were reflecting on. I might&#8217;ve fallen asleep if I was meditating by myself for that long, but in a group setting sitting on hard chairs kept me alert.<\/p>\n<p>I usually feel guilty doing something for myself that is not &#8220;productive&#8221;, but today, I felt very relaxed just sitting and meditating. Maybe it was because I was 25 miles away from home spending time that was specifically scheduled for this. I couldn&#8217;t get up to\u00a0vacuum\u00a0or read a book or prepare a lesson or check my email. It was time well spent.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I want to be more of a Mary and lead by example. Lectio Divina today definitely took me a step towards that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I experienced my first Lectio Divina today. I enjoyed the 55 minutes of meditating on one passage of the Bible along with 7 other ladies. It gave me a relaxed time to focus on God and silent prayer. There was no pressure to talk, although I did share my thoughts. And it was good to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}