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The second movement in holy reading is meditation. Having read the text and listening for a word or a phrase or a concept that speaks to us in a personal way; we meditate upon it. Meditation is more than simply thinking about an idea. A pastoral image of meditation is a picture of a cow lying in the field on a sunny day quietly chewing its cud, this is not far from what it is like to mull over the Word of God.

Jesus’ mother Mary gives us an example of meditation. After Jesus birth she and Joseph were met by the shepherds who told them what the angel of the Lord had declared to them: “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.” (Luke.2:10-11). When the shepherds left we are told Mary “treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart”. (Luke 2:19). In other words she thought about what they said and considered the implications for her life, the life of her baby and ultimately the world at large. This illustration teaches us that meditation involves taking the Word of God and allowing it to interact with our thoughts, our hopes and our desires. It is through meditation we allow God’s Word to become his word for us, a word that speaks to us at our deepest levels.