Pondering the word

Daily Reading for July 14

It is not necessary that we should discover new ideas in our meditation. It is sufficient if the word as we read and understand it penetrates and dwells within us. As Mary pondered in her heart the tidings that were told by the shepherds, as what we have casually heard follows us for a long time, sticks in our mind, occupies, disturbs or delights us, without our ability to do anything about it, so in meditation God’s word seeks to enter in and remain with us. It strives to stir us to work and to operate in us so that we shall not get away from it the whole day long. Then it will do its work in us without our being aware of it.

From Dietrich Bonhoeffer, quoted in Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict by Esther de Waal (Liturgical Press, 1984).

Posted by Vicki K. Black on July 14, 2009 4:00 AM | |
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