Lectio Divina
The Swiss physician, Paul Tournier, in midlife shifted the location of his medical practice from a consulting room with its examining table and supporting laboratories and surgeries, to his living room before a fireplace.
For the rest of his life he used words, listened to and spoken in a setting of personal relationship, as the primary means for carrying out his healing vocation.
He left a way of medical practice that was primary focused on the body and embraced a medical practice that dealt primarily with the whole person, an integrated being of body, soul, and spirit.
Eugene Peterson
Give me an undivided heart
that I may fear your name
Psalm 86
Prayer
Oh God
May I be a saint
Not the kind
who seeks
to be seen
But like a child
unselfconsciously
lost in play
In the pulpit
In private
Blinds open
Blinds closed
Oh God
Make me one
Blessing
Dear Friend
May you listen
to the weary bones in your body
that cry for congruence.
May you lose the need
to be seen as good
and discover the joy
of becoming good.
May Christ liberate you
from every audience
you were never meant
to entertain.
Like a child
lost in play,
may you live
unto the glory of God.
In the Name of Christ
Amen