Lectio Divina: diving deep to hear (IV)

And lastly I reach the stage of Contemplatio … I rest in God … communion … union with God … stillness. I allow the Word to resonate deep within me.

Jesus Stills a Storm (NRSV Mark chapter 4: 35-41)

What is left with me from praying through this Gospel story?

Contemplatio
Out of this genuine exposure of my authentic self I am brought to the possibility of communion. I find here the love after all the words, the passions, the sufferings are spent and I am in union with the beloved. It is as Thelma Hall calls it the ‘entering into silence – which is too deep for words’ Here I entrust myself to God with a loving attentiveness that is rooted in a ‘heart-to-heart conversation’ where ‘silence takes the place of language’.
Through this encounter I am left with a ‘word of life’ that I take with me into my daily life and through the course of my day and night it continues to work and transform me from within, finding echoes in a variety of ways in everything I do. (Thelma Hall Too Deep for Words: Rediscovering Lectio Divina, p. 42.)