Meditation

When I read Christian books, I always try to keep a pencil close at hand. If something speaks to me, I make a bracket on the side of the page in pencil. A bracket looks like this ] only larger. I make the bracket as big as the paragraph or section that spoke to me.

When I get done with the book I go on to the next book, but I will come back to the book I just finished in the near future. Instead of rereading the entire book, I will just read the parts I marked in brackets.

You can apply that same principle to things you read online like the blog. If a particular posting or a thread really blesses you, copy and paste it into a file on your computer. Put down the date that you transferred the material. Reread it once or twice a week for a couple of months. This is how you meditate on holy things.

Here is a good example of why marking and re-reading can be so very important. Take the material in this blog on dealing with death. The principles taught in that section really work. I know because I have applied them in my own life.

My take on dealing with death is a little unusual. I've never read or heard anything quite like the material that I have presented to you on that topic.

Hopefully when you read that thread it will bless you. But if you aren't currently in mourning for someone, you will probably forget what you read or where you read it in a couple of weeks.

But sooner or later someone you love will die. And you will need this material or something like it. If you have reviewed that material a couple of times when the time comes when you need to put the principles into practice, you'll already have some of them in your heart. And you will remember where you read it so that you can go back and apply it to your life.