At the end of 2019 right before the New Year, my friend sent me a link to a Word of the Year Generator. You click the link and a word randomly, yet divinely chosen for you, pops up giving you an intention or direction for the New Year. Why not? I thought, I’ll give it a try. I’ll trust the universe to send me a meaningful word for the year. After all, the year 2020 was beginning and I cannot tell you how excited I was to begin “the year of seeing clearly”. It’s all I talked about for months, sometimes incessantly. I couldn’t wait to see what my word would be. My friend’s word was “explore”. Now that’s a nice intention. Maybe mine would be “adventure”, “joy”, “courage”, or something even bett
As part of my meditation time a couple Sundays ago, I was using the process of lectio divina. Lectio divina is a contemplative practice of reading scripture with the intention of intuitively discovering a word or phrase that “sparkles” or has high energy for you and then meditating of what those words are trying to tell you. This practice is nothing like a traditional bible study and can be used with any sacred text or really any text for that matter to allow personal messages from the Holy to arise. On this particular day, I was reading the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. As I read the passage, the line that “sparkled” for me was when Jesus was on his way to see Lazarus’ famil
