Lectio Divina: A Slower, Truer Way to Hear God

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Pete Scazzero

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

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 from the very transformation you're trying to produce in others? In this episode, I want to share a practice that has shaped my life for almost thirty years. A practice I cannot live without. It's called Lectio Divina — holy reading — and I believe it may be the single most important shift a Chris...

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Scuzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.
0:04.7	But before I launch into today's podcast, I want to start by sharing something with you that I see almost everywhere I go.
0:11.5	Leaders who love Jesus, we're doing meaningful work for him, but they're carrying pressure.
0:16.7	They're doing too much beneath the surface and they're tired.
0:19.9	Too much to do in too little time.
0:21.9	They're slowly losing their joy and often don't even realize,
0:26.9	even though it may externally look like they're doing fantastic and being successful
0:30.5	on the surface, inside something is not right.
0:34.8	That resonates with you even just a little bit. I want to personally invite you
0:39.5	to our Emotionally Healthy Global Leaders Conference this September 30th, October 1st here in
0:47.5	Manhattan, New York City. Just go to Emotionallyhealthy.org slash conference. This year's theme is redefining success.
0:57.6	It's helping you shift your score hard from pressure and often exhaustion to freedom, to joy,
1:03.9	and spaciousness with Jesus that actually bears fruit that remains.
1:08.1	I want to encourage you to experience it with your team.
1:10.5	Details will be in your show notes. Just go to encourage you to experience it with your team. Details will be in
1:11.2	your show notes. Just go to Emotionallyhealthy.org slash conference and check out the details.
1:17.7	I would love to see you there. It's going to be stupendous.
1:23.5	Hi, everyone. My name is Pete Scuzzaro, and again, I want to welcome you to the emotionally healthy leader podcast. Our topic today is lectio divina, a slower, truer way for hearing God. A slower, truer way of hearing God. Basically, it's about communion, about letting scripture read you. Now, I want to introduce you to a, or reintroduce you to an ancient tool,
1:46.6	a practice that has shaped my life for almost over 30 years, actually.
1:51.5	And as a practice, I can't even imagine living without.
1:55.4	It's called lectio divina.
1:57.6	Literally it means holy reading.
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