As a poet, your description of using Lectio Divina with poetry is interesting - especially when you spoke of "driving down and into a little iota" of a piece. Yep!
What really captivates me is how you've found this way to marry this particular mystical practice with artistic discovery. When you describe that "kinesthetic delight" (i love the phrase) it reminds me of those rare moments when we manage to slow down enough to let something truly touch us, to let it work on us rather than us working on it.
I love seeing someone articulating this kind of sacred attention to art, especially in our rushed, often post-modernist engagement with creativity. That's what I find so nice about this perspective. No deconstruction of technique, or anything for that matter.
I'd love to hear more about how this practice has evolved for you - how the marriage of Lectio Divina and poetry continues to unfold and surprise. It really is cool practice.
Agreed. I'm doing some deeper investigations. I keep thinking I need to work with the Psalms a bit - to start with the roots, (in the Christian tradition) and move back and forth with contemporary poetry. But I also want to open things up: I've been using a kind of lectio-inspired template in my approaches to painting and movement....to see these as ways of praying. We shall see...
As a poet, your description of using Lectio Divina with poetry is interesting - especially when you spoke of "driving down and into a little iota" of a piece. Yep!
What really captivates me is how you've found this way to marry this particular mystical practice with artistic discovery. When you describe that "kinesthetic delight" (i love the phrase) it reminds me of those rare moments when we manage to slow down enough to let something truly touch us, to let it work on us rather than us working on it.
I love seeing someone articulating this kind of sacred attention to art, especially in our rushed, often post-modernist engagement with creativity. That's what I find so nice about this perspective. No deconstruction of technique, or anything for that matter.
I'd love to hear more about how this practice has evolved for you - how the marriage of Lectio Divina and poetry continues to unfold and surprise. It really is cool practice.
Agreed. I'm doing some deeper investigations. I keep thinking I need to work with the Psalms a bit - to start with the roots, (in the Christian tradition) and move back and forth with contemporary poetry. But I also want to open things up: I've been using a kind of lectio-inspired template in my approaches to painting and movement....to see these as ways of praying. We shall see...
Thanks again for reading my bits and pieces Lane.
Yes, Psalms and maybe even Song of Solomon for Self and creativity "marriage." So interesting!