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The reader is endowed with a marvelous capacity to
see the unseen. Children are better at this than adults! We have
itching ears, or a coin is burning a hole in our pocket or there’s
the smell of spring in the air.
The arts are a steady and skillful training to see, taste, hear,
delight, intuit and feel. The more we appreciate music, visual arts,
dance, sculpture, architecture, textiles, geographic formations,
texture and natural sounds the more we appreciate life and all its
living.
The reader can know Scripture, nature and personal experience the
more one has a capacity for myth, literature, story, opera, symbolic
gestures and all the vehicles of truth and beauty. This capacity can
be enhanced, made to grasp more through careful attention to the
arts.
One’s aesthetic senses are the way into grasping symbol, the unseen,
the felt but not heard voices of this second level of lectio
divina.
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