Lexio Divina is a process of sitting with a passage, usually biblical, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s something I want to do with things I see on Facebook. Poetry that is shared with me.

How it “works”

• Read – this is the lexio part. Read slowly. Which words or phrases jump off the page and into your head?
• Reflect– or meditatio, aka meditating. Read again. How is this making you feel? What emotions are coming up? Sit with them. Let those feelings be in your body. They are important.
• Respond – Oratio is where we do something, or say something. What ideas does this third reading bring to your mind – journalling? A letter to your political representatives? A conversation with a friend? A blog post? Some of these things happen later – you get ideas for responding, perhaps?
• Rest – Now we contemplate –Comtemplatio. This is the last of the 4 readings. Where all the things combine. (and perhaps before we write letters, blog posts, call our friends.

My contemplation today was in Proverbs 1: 20 – 23. The words that hit my hardest are “wisdom SCREAMS’ even though it says she cries out.

Why SCREAMS? With all the stuff that is going on these days, wisdom has to blast its way through. In both the US and Canada there is an outcry about temporary foreign workers (legal and illegal) who are usually not white. Here in Canada, Pollievre and the Conservatives want to scrap the Temporary Foreign Workers program In the US, the Republicans are complaining about how there people are using Medicaid and that’s why they can’t negotiate with the Democrats.

Why SCREAMS? Because this is being framed as one thing, but it’s really quite racial. I listened to this short from Brian Tyler Cohen talking about the situation in the US. Canada isn’t there yet, and we are quite subtle in our racism. It made me think about the rhetoric in my country and deeper layers of what’s going on.

Did this video impact my reading about wisdom? Yeah, it did. Politics is framed as Left or Right, Conservative or Liberal, Republican or Democrat, woke or unwoke. None of what our governments do is about these things. It’s about the PEOPLE. The bottom of the triangle that upholds the little top part. And we, the people all want the same thing…to have enough, to be healthy, to enjoy our short journey on the earth. We don’t want to be vulnerable to every whim of politicians and their supporters.

This also came to my mind as I was thinking about wisdom screaming for our attention.

This was another deep post. Maybe because I am currently quite vulnerable. Even as I know some financial security is coming for me, so many are facing loss of income, loss of homes, and it costs us more than someone who has more than enough.

I hope this is helpful to someone. Writing it down here has served me well.

Thank you, all!

Marcia

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