I have a reputation for thinking.

What people usually see is the outcome of the thinking. The connections I’ve already made and the thinking I’ve already done. Other times they are catching it in the middle. As I’m processing over several days or when I need to process out loud.

In Lent, we study and meditate on Scripture as an act of self-discipline.

Meditation might bring to mind sitting cross-legged in silence for an excruciatingly long time. Which also isn’t the wrong idea.

In meditating on Scripture, we’re invited not only to take it in by reading, but to digest it by ruminating, dreaming, dwelling, and praying. Not only with thoughts, but with silence. Letting the scripture speak to you. Not as a nut you need to crack open, but as if its job were to crack open you.