Ignatian Meditation
Man of Sorrows by Albrecht D ürer A long time ago when I was young and quite newly married, a series of events brought me completely to the end of my own resources and gave me a real thirst for knowing God. I started to read the Bible at every spare moment, and, because writing seems to be my first language, I often communicated with God in writing while I was reading Bible passages. After a while, I found myself writing the Bible passages imaginatively, from the viewpoint of some of the characters in the stories, and as I did so, really entering into the stories as never before. By doing so, I learned more about the character of God, especially as seen in Jesus, and also more about myself and my relationship with Him, than I had ever done before. I have whole files of the handwritten pieces, beginning from more than thirty years ago. It wasn't until many, many years later that I learned this was a well-established method of Bible reading, describe...