I invite you into a lectio divina practice...

There is a great blog post from Christine Paintner at Abbey of the Arts ... here.  Each month Christine chooses a portion of scripture for lectio divinia and encourages readers to read & reflect.  

Here is an excerpt from this months theme on Autumn...

Lean into silence, pray the text, listen to what shimmers, allow the images and memories to unfold, tend to the invitation, and then sit in stillness.

He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.” — Mark 4:26-29

After you have prayed with the text (and feel free to pray with it more than once – St. Ignatius wrote about the deep value of repetition in prayer, especially when something feels particularly rich) spend some time journaling what insights arise for you.