The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast
May 26, 2026 · 28 min · 9 segments
Most of us were trained to read the Bible the way we were trained to lead — move fast, cover ground, extract what's useful, and get back to work. But what if that approach, by itself, is keeping you…
Pete ScazzeroHost
Now, I want to introduce you to a, a, or reintroduce you to an ancient tool or practice that has shaped my life, uh, for almost over thirty years, actually, and it's a practice I can't even imagine living without.
It's the slow, deliberate, life-giving work of l- of letting scripture actually read you instead of you reading it.
And I, I, I don't think I'd be following Jesus the way I am today if it, if it had not been for the integration of this practice so core into my daily life.
So whether you're a beginner in this journey we call emotionally healthy discipleship, or you're a, a pastor leader who's been preaching for twenty-five or thirty years, uh, this, uh, this topic today is just so rich, so broad, so multifaceted.
So now, Lectio Divina for centuries was the ordinary way, uh, that people read scripture.
It's been around for two thousand years, this practice, uh, but about a thousand years into it, about the year ten fifty, there was a French Carthusian monk prior named Guigo II, uh, again, living in the French Alps, and he actually codified what we call Lectio Divina today.
Now, I want to introduce you to a, a, or reintroduce you to an ancient tool or practice that has shaped my life, uh, for almost over thirty years, actually, and it's a practice I can't even imagine living without.
It's the slow, deliberate, life-giving work of l- of letting scripture actually read you instead of you reading it.
And I, I, I don't think I'd be following Jesus the way I am today if it, if it had not been for the integration of this practice so core into my daily life.
So whether you're a beginner in this journey we call emotionally healthy discipleship, or you're a, a pastor leader who's been preaching for twenty-five or thirty years, uh, this, uh, this topic today is just so rich, so broad, so multifaceted.
So now, Lectio Divina for centuries was the ordinary way, uh, that people read scripture.
It's been around for two thousand years, this practice, uh, but about a thousand years into it, about the year ten fifty, there was a French Carthusian monk prior named Guigo II, uh, again, living in the French Alps, and he actually codified what we call Lectio Divina today.
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