Lectio Divina means “The Divine Reading” and is a monastic practice of Scripture reading. This type of scripture reading is a kind of prayerful, meditative reading of the Bible. It’s not a “Bible study” per say but instead, a prayerful interaction with a text (the Bible) that is meant to be seen as alive and active and a primary way of knowing God more fully. 

Here is a link to a Lectio Divina guide that my spiritual director gave me. I’ve tweaked a little and tried to make it pretty plane to read. Hopefully it will be helpful as you attempt to do this diving, prayerful scripture reading. 

Today I would invited you to read your favorite Christmas Narrative in this way. Let it come alive to you in new ways and draw you into prayer and interaction with God’s story of incarnation. 

Grace and peace
Erik

PS :: There are some great resource if you want to read more about Lectio Divina and Benedictine spirituality. 

Tony Jones book Read. Think. Pray. Live. is straight up a youth version of Lectio Divina. I read it awhile back and remember it being pretty good. 
Richard Foster, Life with God. It’s essentially about Lectio Divina and reading the Bible for spiritual transformation. Pretty much anything by Foster is a classic! 

Fr. Timothy Gallagher, Meditation and Contemplation. This is all about prayer with Scripture. It’s not exactly Lectio Divina but similar and very helpful. Fr. Gallagher has a series of great books on Ignatian Spirituality (the teaching of St. Ignatius of Loyola) Good stuff!)