The Word That Prays Itself

In the tradition of lectio divina, we do not merely read Scripture — we allow Scripture to read us. A monk once described his decades-long practice with Romans 10:9: each morning, he would sit with the text in silence, letting the words "Jesus is Lord" settle below his thinking mind into the marrow of his being. For years, the confession felt like his own effort, his own declaration pushed upward toward God.…