We could learn more about theology, about how to read scripture, about prayer by meditating on a Japanese painting (or even painting one ourselves) or reading poetry than a thousand Christian Ed. curricula.
It's not how much is said to us or even how someone uses words to teach us. It's how we are broken open--laid bare--how we lose ourselves and have everything that we have been holding onto be exposed as the idol it is.
It can happen with a movie, a poem, a painting, a Koan, a saying of the Desert Fathers (and Mothers), lectio divina...
This is my problem, I think, with program in parishes, with so many attempts at formation, with vestry meetings, etc. We keep ourselves so busy and think we're accomplishing something. We'd be better off reading poems, painting, etc.
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