Becoming Engaged in Life
Reading Psalm 97, I got stuck on this verse (7): “All who serve idols are put to shame, who glory in worthless things.” When you prayerfully read scripture there is a form of prayer called Lectio Divina that involves meditation and contemplation. Bishop Robert Barron explains it in his video on the Coronavirus, but there are others who do so also. Anyway, I got stuck on glorying in “worthless things.” If I asked you—“Quick, describe any worthless things in your life”—what would you say? Take a minute to think about it. In Lectio Divina, there is nothing quick about exploring these things. You take time, sitting in silence, open to any word or prompting that might rise to the surface. It is hard for us, I think, to identify what we might imagine to be worthless, because if we truly thought something was worthless, we wouldn’t give it our time or attention, right? It might not even be in our life, because everything we give glory to has value, right?