All scripture is inspired by God.
—2 Timothy 3.16
Scripture is the community’s reflections
on living in God’s world—
in many voices, many viewpoints.
It isn’t dictated, or even directed, by God,
but in-spirited by God.
Spirit, that is, God’s love-in-motion, is in it,
and when we listen with that spirit
we hear the Word of God—
not always some literal “meaning,”
or even words, or ideas at all,
but the living Word of God,
what God is communicating to you, or us,
in the moment.
It may be a sense…or sensation… or sound…
an image… a touch… a nudge… a knowing…
a turning or opening of your heart…
a kind of pheromone… or a question,
even a refutation of the very words printed.
You have to listen for Spirit,
whose voice sounds a lot like laughter,
or a mother cooing to her infant,
or a song without words, or
silence.
Listen to scripture with the Spirit of love.
Listen for the voice of love,
and Spirit will lead you in love.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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