Ep 007 Embodied Lectio Divina - Ecclesiastes 3:15

Experiencing God with Meah Arakaki

The practice of Lectio Divina is a vehicle for using Scriptures to simply be with God. The goal is not to try to get something or figure something out, but just to allow yourself to be present in relationship with God. The process we will go through in Lectio Divina is to read the passage slowly, and I will give you prompts for questions or noticings, and we'll have a space of silence after I read the passage each time. Today I've chosen a passage of Scripture from Ecclesiastes 3:15. I'll be reading from The Message paraphrase. “Whatever was, is. Whatever will be, is. That’s how it always is with God." Often in my work with clients, we talk about depression and anxiety and it seems that depression and anxiety often have some qualities of time associated with them. Depression often has a feeling of focusing and dwelling on past time while anxiety seems to have a focus on worrying about and focusing on future time - things that haven’t taken place yet, or may not take place but could; and depression on things that have taken place or didn’t in the past. In thinking about depression, anxiety and time, I often come to this place with clients to regulate their nervous systems in this present moment, and to come into a space of reality today, not dismissing those things but bringing them into a felt experience of reality today in themselves and with God.