Feeding among the lilies is a line from the Song of Songs, it has been used to describe the practice of Lectio Divina. Thomas Merton in The Seven Storey Mountain uses the image of planting and sowing as expressing the effect of reading scripture: “God often talks to us in scripture. That is, he plants the words full of actual graces as we read them and suddenly undiscovered meanings are sown in our hearts, if we attend to them, reading with minds that are at prayer.” This day will be dedicated to exploring this practice, ancient and always new, feeding among the lilies of scriptures and sacred wisdom texts so as to be nourished and inspired for our own spiritual journey.
