You Matched with the Contemplative Rhythm Scripture Meditation!
You Matched with the Contemplative Rhythm Scripture Meditation!
THE RESULTS ARE IN, AND YOUR CONTEMPLATIVE RYTHYM IS…
Scripture Meditation
You encounter God with imagination, emotion, and color. Scripture meditation invites you into the story—helping you see what God is doing, hear His voice, and sense His nearness in a creative, personal way.
Your faith is intuitive and experiential. You understand God best when you can picture Him with you.
You're someone who sees in pictures. When you read a story, you're not just reading words—you're watching a movie in your mind. You see the characters. You hear their voices. You feel the emotions. This is how you process information, how you understand the world, how you connect with truth.
This is a gift. Your imagination isn't just for entertainment or creativity. It's a spiritual gift. It's one of the primary ways God speaks to you.
When you read Scripture, you don't just want to understand what happened. You want to be there.
WORDS THAT COULD DESCRIBE YOU
This is Scripture meditation. Also called imaginative prayer or Ignatian contemplation. It's the practice of entering into the biblical story with your imagination—seeing it, hearing it, feeling it. Not making things up, but letting the Spirit guide your imagination to experience the scene in a vivid, personal way.
WHY SCRIPTURE MEDITATION FITS YOUR SOUL
This Practice Resonates With You Because…
You're creative and imaginative—you think in images, metaphors, stories
You relate to Scripture through imagery and emotion—facts and theology are important, but they don't move you the way a story does
You love when prayer feels vivid and alive—you want to experience God, not just think about Him
You're visual and intuitive—you trust what you see in your mind's eye and what you sense in your spirit
You need Scripture to be more than words on a page—you need it to become real, present, personal
THE BIBLICAL STORY BECOMING YOUR STORY
Scripture Meditation has deep roots in Christian tradition. Ignatius of Loyola taught his followers to pray with their imagination, to place themselves in Gospel scenes. He believed that God speaks to us through our imagination just as surely as through our thoughts and memories. Saints throughout history have encountered Jesus this way—Teresa of Avila, Francis of Assisi, countless others.
When you practice Scripture meditation, you're not being irreverent or making things up. You're using the gift of imagination that God gave you to experience His Word in a deeper, more personal way. You're letting the biblical story become your story.
🎧 Try Your First Contemplative Encounter:
"The Impact of Our Memories"
"The Impact of Our Memories" was created for women like you—women whose imaginations are a gift, who can picture God with them and enter into His presence through the vivid scenes He shows them.
This encounter invites you to do something beautiful: to ask God to create a picture album with you—a collection of memories of the two of you together.
A Look at the Encounter:
This is imaginative prayer at its most personal. You're not entering a biblical scene—you're entering your own life, but with eyes to see God's presence in it. You're using your imagination to see what was always there but you couldn't quite perceive at the time.
The encounter will guide you through this process:
As you talk to God, let your imagination show you a picture of you two together. Stay here for a few moments with this picture. How do you feel as you observe this visual? Perhaps you are the child right now in this scene. Or, perhaps, you are an observer, watching you and God together.
Maybe you'll see yourself as a little girl, and God is there with you, even in a memory you thought you were alone in. Maybe you'll see yourself in a moment of joy, and you'll realize God was celebrating with you. Maybe you'll see yourself in a moment of pain, and you'll see that God was weeping with you, holding you, even when you didn't know it.
This is what imaginative prayer does. It doesn't create false memories. It helps you see the truth that was always there—that God has been with you all along. In every moment. Every memory. Every season. He was there, and your imagination can help you see Him.
The encounter continues:
Invite your heart to speak into this moment, telling God what you think and feel. Lord, when I see and experience this picture of the two of us, I feel….
Let yourself linger here. Listen for what Holy Spirit is speaking to you in response. It might help you focus by writing in your journal—or drawing a sketch of what you see in your imagination.
Drawing! Yes. Because you're visual. Because sometimes the picture is clearer than words. Because putting it on paper makes it real, makes it something you can return to.
This encounter teaches you that your imagination is sacred. That the pictures God shows you are real communication. That you can trust what you see, what you sense, what rises in your spirit as you invite Him into your imagination.
The Long-Term Gift: Experiencing Jesus Like Never Before
After you complete "The Impact of Our Memories," you'll have a new lens for reading Scripture. You'll approach familiar stories with fresh eyes. You'll enter into them. You'll see yourself in the scenes. You'll experience them in ways you never have before.
You might read about the woman at the well, and instead of just reading about her, you'll become her. You'll feel her shame, her loneliness, her surprise when Jesus speaks to her with such tenderness. You'll hear His voice. You'll see His face. And it will change you.
You might read about the disciples in the boat during the storm, and you'll be in that boat. You'll feel the panic, the waves crashing over you, the terror that you're going to drown. And then you'll see Jesus, walking toward you on the water, saying "It's me. Don't be afraid." And you'll know—in a deep, experiential way—that He comes to you in your storms too.
Scripture meditation makes the Bible come alive. It's no longer a book about people who lived 2,000 years ago. It becomes your story. Their encounters with Jesus become your encounters with Jesus.
And here's the beautiful thing: the more you practice this, the more you'll notice God in your everyday life. Because you've trained your imagination to see Him. You'll see Him in a conversation, in a sunset, in a moment of unexpected kindness. Your whole life becomes a place where you can encounter Him.
