Gospel of Mary – Ignorance (Part 4): Lectio Divina

“He let her witness him first. And then, his first word was to call out her name, Mary.” —Meggan Watterson 

“Peter said to Mary, ‘Sister, we know that the Savior loved you more than the rest of the women. Tell us words of the Savior which you remember, which you know and we do not, nor have we heard them.'”

Mary 6:1-2

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One of the best contemplative practices, for me personally, is Lectio Divina. This practice is not for everybody, but it really works well for me. In this post I would like to thank Meggan Watterson for the teaching.

For those people who have not had the opportunity to experience Lectio Divina, here is a link to the Omega Center’s description of the practice. There are generally only four steps in this practice, but please make it your own.

• Lectio: Read and re-read the teaching and passages until the message is understood and the details become familiar.
• Meditatio: In the meditation ask, what does this text say to me, today, and to my life.
• Oratio: Consider prayer to be a simple conversation with the Cosmic Christ spirit within you.
• Contemplatio: Contemplation can take many forms, writing, drawing, sharing with others, etc. For the best results there should be a willingness to change, an openness and trust in Christ, and the decision to follow Christ’s spirit rather than our own ego. Ask yourself: What conversion of the mind, heart, and life is the Spirit of Christ asking of me?

In quiet meditation ask yourself what word or words from the teaching caught your attention. What in the passages challenged you?

Read the teaching again and speak directly to Christ who resides within you. Have a conversation (prayer) with Christ.

“But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

Matthew 6:6

Read the teaching one more time and through contemplation ask; what conversion of mind and heart is the Spirit of Christ asking from me today.

In what ways did Christ live all aspects of his full humanity?

In what ways did Mary Magdalene move among the other disciples?

How do we live all the aspects of our full humanity?

How might the companionship between Christ and Mary Magdalene help us today in our relationships with each other?

God bless,

Gospel of Mary – Ignorance (Part 3): Lectio Divina

“Salvation not as something that’s one day given, or earned, by a force outside of me. Salvation as waking up, becoming even more alive. More present.” —Meggan Watterson 

“When Mary said this, she turned their heart to the Good, and they began to discuss the words of the Savior.”

Mary 5:9-10

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One of the best contemplative practices, for me personally, is Lectio Divina. This practice is not for everybody, but it really works well for me. In this post I would like to thank Meggan Watterson for the teaching.

For those people who have not had the opportunity to experience Lectio Divina, here is a link to the Omega Center’s description of the practice. There are generally only four steps in this practice, but please make it your own.

• Lectio: Read and re-read the teaching and passages until the message is understood and the details become familiar.
• Meditatio: In the meditation ask, what does this text say to me, today, and to my life.
• Oratio: Consider prayer to be a simple conversation with the Cosmic Christ spirit within you.
• Contemplatio: Contemplation can take many forms, writing, drawing, sharing with others, etc. For the best results there should be a willingness to change, an openness and trust in Christ, and the decision to follow Christ’s spirit rather than our own ego. Ask yourself: What conversion of the mind, heart, and life is the Spirit of Christ asking of me?

In quiet meditation ask yourself what word or words from the teaching caught your attention. What in the passages challenged you?

Read the teaching again and speak directly to Christ who resides within you. Have a conversation (prayer) with Christ.

“But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

Matthew 6:6

Read the teaching one more time and through contemplation ask; what conversion of mind and heart is the Spirit of Christ asking from me today.

How important is it to remember Christ from within?

What might we experience on the path of the transformational process walked by Christ?

Do we seek salvation from external sources or salvation that comes from within?

How might we be more present to universal salvation?

God bless,

Gospel of Mary – Ignorance (Part 2): Lectio Divina

“Sin comes from forgetting, and is remedied by simply remembering that messy truth that we are both a soul and an ego.” —Meggan Watterson 

“Then Mary stood up. She greeted them all, and said to her brothers and sisters, ‘Do not weep and be pained, nor doubt, for all his grace will be with you and shelter you. But rather let us praise his greatness, for he has prepared us and made us Humans.'”

Mary 5:4-8

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One of the best contemplative practices, for me personally, is Lectio Divina. This practice is not for everybody, but it really works well for me. In this post I would like to thank Meggan Watterson for the teaching.

For those people who have not had the opportunity to experience Lectio Divina, here is a link to the Omega Center’s description of the practice. There are generally only four steps in this practice, but please make it your own.

• Lectio: Read and re-read the teaching and passages until the message is understood and the details become familiar.
• Meditatio: In the meditation ask, what does this text say to me, today, and to my life.
• Oratio: Consider prayer to be a simple conversation with the Cosmic Christ spirit within you.
• Contemplatio: Contemplation can take many forms, writing, drawing, sharing with others, etc. For the best results there should be a willingness to change, an openness and trust in Christ, and the decision to follow Christ’s spirit rather than our own ego. Ask yourself: What conversion of the mind, heart, and life is the Spirit of Christ asking of me?

In quiet meditation ask yourself what word or words from the teaching caught your attention. What in the passages challenged you?

Read the teaching again and speak directly to Christ who resides within you. Have a conversation (prayer) with Christ.

“But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

Matthew 6:6

Read the teaching one more time and through contemplation ask; what conversion of mind and heart is the Spirit of Christ asking from me today.

How might we come to recognize that the negative qualities we see in others are the same qualities within us?

What does it mean to know, accept, and integrate those unconscious parts of us that make us human?

Where do we derive our spiritual authority ?

How might we be more present to love?

God bless,

Gospel of Mary – Ignorance (Part 1): Lectio Divina

“I felt like my story was the continuation of a story that has been told for thousands of years. I felt I was accompanied always by legions of us, generation after generation of women, healing this ancient misunderstanding that the female body signifies the lesser sex, a being to be owned, dominated, and not trusted.” —Meggan Watterson 

“But they were pained. They wept greatly, saying, ‘How shall we go to the nations and proclaim the good news of the Child of Humanity? If they did not spare him, how will they spare us?'”

Mary 5:1-3

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One of the best contemplative practices, for me personally, is Lectio Divina. This practice is not for everybody, but it really works well for me. In this post I would like to thank Meggan Watterson for the teaching.

For those people who have not had the opportunity to experience Lectio Divina, here is a link to the Omega Center’s description of the practice. There are generally only four steps in this practice, but please make it your own.

• Lectio: Read and re-read the teaching and passages until the message is understood and the details become familiar.
• Meditatio: In the meditation ask, what does this text say to me, today, and to my life.
• Oratio: Consider prayer to be a simple conversation with the Cosmic Christ spirit within you.
• Contemplatio: Contemplation can take many forms, writing, drawing, sharing with others, etc. For the best results there should be a willingness to change, an openness and trust in Christ, and the decision to follow Christ’s spirit rather than our own ego. Ask yourself: What conversion of the mind, heart, and life is the Spirit of Christ asking of me?

In quiet meditation ask yourself what word or words from the teaching caught your attention. What in the passages challenged you?

Read the teaching again and speak directly to Christ who resides within you. Have a conversation (prayer) with Christ.

“But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

Matthew 6:6

Read the teaching one more time and through contemplation ask; what conversion of mind and heart is the Spirit of Christ asking from me today.

How can we find ourselves in the present moment when we feel anxiety and fear?

What does the language of myth and metaphor have to teach us about transforming trauma?

What does it mean to remain whole and to be held in love from within ourselves?

How might we heal the scars of trauma that keep us from going deeper into our fears?

God bless,

Gospel of Mary – Craving (Part 4): Lectio Divina

“The Gospel of Mary wants us to see that we are not just this body. And this human body does not delimit or determine what’s possible for us.” —Meggan Watterson 

“‘Go then and proclaim the good news of the realm. Do not lay down any rules beyond what I determined for you, nor give a law like the lawgiver, lest you be confined by it.’ When he had said this, he departed.”

Mary 4:8-11

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One of the best contemplative practices, for me personally, is Lectio Divina. This practice is not for everybody, but it really works well for me. In this post I would like to thank Meggan Watterson for the teaching.

For those people who have not had the opportunity to experience Lectio Divina, here is a link to the Omega Center’s description of the practice. There are generally only four steps in this practice, but please make it your own.

• Lectio: Read and re-read the teaching and passages until the message is understood and the details become familiar.
• Meditatio: In the meditation ask, what does this text say to me, today, and to my life.
• Oratio: Consider prayer to be a simple conversation with the Cosmic Christ spirit within you.
• Contemplatio: Contemplation can take many forms, writing, drawing, sharing with others, etc. For the best results there should be a willingness to change, an openness and trust in Christ, and the decision to follow Christ’s spirit rather than our own ego. Ask yourself: What conversion of the mind, heart, and life is the Spirit of Christ asking of me?

In quiet meditation ask yourself what word or words from the teaching caught your attention. What in the passages challenged you?

Read the teaching again and speak directly to Christ who resides within you. Have a conversation (prayer) with Christ.

“But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

Matthew 6:6

Read the teaching one more time and through contemplation ask; what conversion of mind and heart is the Spirit of Christ asking from me today.

How can we encounter the presence of another beyond the body that we see?

What does it mean to accept an identity that is not specifically male or female?

Christ chose a woman as a spiritual companion, what does that mean for all gender identities?

How can we identify with the transgender name for God?

God bless,

The True Self: Lectio Divina

‘The true self is who you are in God and who God is in you. Why would you search for spirituality? All spiritual knowledge is re-cognition [recognition] not cognition. It is a discovery of something that is already spoken within you. If you still need something outside of yourself to be happy…” — Richard Rohr

Now when Jesus saw great crowds around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. A scribe then approached and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Matthew 8:18-22

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One of the best contemplative practices, for me personally, is Lectio Divina. This practice is not for everybody, but it really works well for me. In this post I would like to thank Meggan Watterson for the teaching.

For those people who have not had the opportunity to experience Lectio Divina, here is a link to the Omega Center’s description of the practice. There are generally only four steps in this practice, but please make it your own.

• Lectio: Read and re-read the teaching and passages until the message is understood and the details become familiar.
• Meditatio: In the meditation ask, what does this text say to me, today, and to my life.
• Oratio: Consider prayer to be a simple conversation with the Cosmic Christ spirit within you.
• Contemplatio: Contemplation can take many forms, writing, drawing, sharing with others, etc. For the best results there should be a willingness to change, an openness and trust in Christ, and the decision to follow Christ’s spirit rather than our own ego. Ask yourself: What conversion of the mind, heart, and life is the Spirit of Christ asking of me?

In quiet meditation ask yourself what word or words from the teaching caught your attention. What in the passages challenged you?

Read the teaching again and speak directly to Christ who resides within you. Have a conversation (prayer) with Christ.

“But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

Matthew 6:6

Read the teaching one more time and through contemplation ask; what conversion of mind and heart is the Spirit of Christ asking from me today.

How can we experience substance, the contents, and not get lost in the form of the container?

Can the peace the world cannot give, the peace the world cannot take, make me happy?

How do we see our cup half full?

Do we want to be right or do we want to be happy?

How do we hold and transform our pain to prevent us from transmitting the pain to others?

God bless,

Gospel of Mary – Craving (Part 3): Lectio Divina

‘I was just as convicted about what it means to be a Christian… I was just as convicted of my vision of Christ” —Meggan Watterson 

“Beware that no one lead you astray saying, ‘Look over here!’ Or ‘Look over there!’ For the Child of Humanity is within you! Follow it! Those who seek it will find it.”

Mary 4:3-7

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One of the best contemplative practices, for me personally, is Lectio Divina. This practice is not for everybody, but it really works well for me. In this post I would like to thank Meggan Watterson for the teaching.

For those people who have not had the opportunity to experience Lectio Divina, here is a link to the Omega Center’s description of the practice. There are generally only four steps in this practice, but please make it your own.

• Lectio: Read and re-read the teaching and passages until the message is understood and the details become familiar.
• Meditatio: In the meditation ask, what does this text say to me, today, and to my life.
• Oratio: Consider prayer to be a simple conversation with the Cosmic Christ spirit within you.
• Contemplatio: Contemplation can take many forms, writing, drawing, sharing with others, etc. For the best results there should be a willingness to change, an openness and trust in Christ, and the decision to follow Christ’s spirit rather than our own ego. Ask yourself: What conversion of the mind, heart, and life is the Spirit of Christ asking of me?

In quiet meditation ask yourself what word or words from the teaching caught your attention. What in the passages challenged you?

Read the teaching again and speak directly to Christ who resides within you. Have a conversation (prayer) with Christ.

“But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

Matthew 6:6

Read the teaching one more time and through contemplation ask; what conversion of mind and heart is the Spirit of Christ asking from me today.

How can we avoid the belief that we are right and others are wrong?

How can we become more aware of influences suggesting that they alone possess the truth?

What does it mean to find Christ inside ourselves?

What does it mean to follow Christ inside ourselves?

God bless,

Gospel of Mary – Craving (Part 2): Lectio Divina

‘I wonder, and I wonder why more people don’t wonder, what god would be if god was also a She?” —Meggan Watterson 

“When the Blessed One had said these things, he greeted them all, saying, ‘Peace be with you! Bear my peace within yourselves!”

Mary 4:1-2

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One of the best contemplative practices, for me personally, is Lectio Divina. This practice is not for everybody, but it really works well for me. In this post I would like to thank Meggan Watterson for the teaching.

For those people who have not had the opportunity to experience Lectio Divina, here is a link to the Omega Center’s description of the practice. There are generally only four steps in this practice, but please make it your own.

• Lectio: Read and re-read the teaching and passages until the message is understood and the details become familiar.
• Meditatio: In the meditation ask, what does this text say to me, today, and to my life.
• Oratio: Consider prayer to be a simple conversation with the Cosmic Christ spirit within you.
• Contemplatio: Contemplation can take many forms, writing, drawing, sharing with others, etc. For the best results there should be a willingness to change, an openness and trust in Christ, and the decision to follow Christ’s spirit rather than our own ego. Ask yourself: What conversion of the mind, heart, and life is the Spirit of Christ asking of me?

In quiet meditation ask yourself what word or words from the teaching caught your attention. What in the passages challenged you?

Read the teaching again and speak directly to Christ who resides within you. Have a conversation (prayer) with Christ.

“But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

Matthew 6:6

Read the teaching one more time and through contemplation ask; what conversion of mind and heart is the Spirit of Christ asking from me today.

How can we hear who Christ is according to women, mothers, daughters, and transgender?

How can we become more like Christ?

What does it mean to be present to that Christ presence that resides within us?

What does it mean to be a presence of peace to all we encounter?

God bless,

Gospel of Mary – Craving (Part 1): Lectio Divina

“‘Father, do you see this vase here? Could it be called by any other name than what it is?’

‘No,’ he replied.

‘Well, neither can I be called anything other than what I am…'” —Meggan Watterson 

“Matter gives birth to a passion that has no likeness because it proceeds from what is contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in the whole body. Because of this I said to you, ‘You shall become satisfied, and not be persuaded. You shall be joined in the presence of the likeness of nature.’ Those who have ears to hear, let them hear!”

Mary 3:10-13

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One of the best contemplative practices, for me personally, is Lectio Divina. This practice is not for everybody, but it really works well for me. In this post I would like to thank Meggan Watterson for the teaching.

For those people who have not had the opportunity to experience Lectio Divina, here is a link to the Omega Center’s description of the practice. There are generally only four steps in this practice, but please make it your own.

• Lectio: Read and re-read the teaching and passages until the message is understood and the details become familiar.
• Meditatio: In the meditation ask, what does this text say to me, today, and to my life.
• Oratio: Consider prayer to be a simple conversation with the Cosmic Christ spirit within you.
• Contemplatio: Contemplation can take many forms, writing, drawing, sharing with others, etc. For the best results there should be a willingness to change, an openness and trust in Christ, and the decision to follow Christ’s spirit rather than our own ego. Ask yourself: What conversion of the mind, heart, and life is the Spirit of Christ asking of me?

In quiet meditation ask yourself what word or words from the teaching caught your attention. What in the passages challenged you?

Read the teaching again and speak directly to Christ who resides within you. Have a conversation (prayer) with Christ.

“But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

Matthew 6:6

Read the teaching one more time and through contemplation ask; what conversion of mind and heart is the Spirit of Christ asking from me today.

What understanding do we experience when Meggan retells the interaction between Perpetua and her father?

What does it mean for matter to give birth to a passion with no likeness?

What does it mean that the Savior says we are to be satisfied and not persuaded?

How can we be joined in the presence of nature?

God bless,

Gospel of Mary – Darkness: Lectio Divina

“If I could write the beginning, it wouldn’t be in the light. It would be in the womb, in the dark, in a cave, in an egg. If I could start again, it would be in the darkness.” —Meggan Watterson 

Peter said to him, “Since you have explained everything to us, tell us one other thing. What is the sin of the world?”

The Savior said, “There is no sin, but it is you who make sin when you do the things that are like the nature of adultery, which is called ‘sin.’ That is why the Good came into your midst, coming to the good which belongs to every nature, in order to restore it to its root.”

Then he continued. He said, “This is why you become sick and die for you love what deceives you. One who understands, let him understand!”

Mary 3:1-9

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One of the best contemplative practices, for me personally, is Lectio Divina. This practice is not for everybody, but it really works well for me. In this post I would like to thank Meggan Watterson for the teaching.

For those people who have not had the opportunity to experience Lectio Divina, here is a link to the Omega Center’s description of the practice. There are generally only four steps in this practice, but please make it your own.

• Lectio: Read and re-read the teaching and passages until the message is understood and the details become familiar.
• Meditatio: In the meditation ask, what does this text say to me, today, and to my life.
• Oratio: Consider prayer to be a simple conversation with the Cosmic Christ spirit within you.
• Contemplatio: Contemplation can take many forms, writing, drawing, sharing with others, etc. For the best results there should be a willingness to change, an openness and trust in Christ, and the decision to follow Christ’s spirit rather than our own ego. Ask yourself: What conversion of the mind, heart, and life is the Spirit of Christ asking of me?

In quiet meditation ask yourself what word or words from the teaching caught your attention. What in the passages challenged you?

Read the teaching again and speak directly to Christ who resides within you. Have a conversation (prayer) with Christ.

“But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

Matthew 6:6

Read the teaching one more time and through contemplation ask; what conversion of mind and heart is the Spirit of Christ asking from me today.

What understanding do we experience when Meggan says “If I could start again, it would be in the darkness?”

What does it mean that there is no sin?

What good belongs to every nature that Christ restores?

Why do we love what deceives us?

What do we need to understand this teaching of the Savior?

God bless,