Anime Lectio: In the Land of Leadle

                                                             1. Why do Anime Lectio? 

Anime Lectio is a time for us to stop and take a breath. Between work, activities, family life, and social media, our minds are always moving. We rarely take time to contemplate and ask, why am I watching this anime? What’s the point of all this? And, how is this making me feel? 

2. Put away all distractions 

(phones, work, etc.)

We are so enslaved to things that stimulate our minds. Let this be a moment for us to free our minds, look inside of ourselves, and be at peace.

3. Deep Breathing

Take several deep breaths. Let your mind relax. If you’ve had any questions, desires, or struggles that you’ve been hiding or stuffing away, let them rise up to the surface. 

4. Open yourself to God’s Presence

Remember God places all our thoughts and desires inside of us, and He uses them to draw us closer to Himself. God gives us a community to help us understand who we are and what He is calling us to do. The faces of other people you know and don't know are like signs of God’s presence.  

5. Think About What’s on Your Mind in Relation to the Anime

Think about what’s been on your mind in relation to the anime.  The following is an example of such thoughts written by me. 

Getting a second chance at life before death usually happens when you have an experience that makes you want to do something else. Such an experience is known as a peak experience, which is an important life changing experience that usually only happens once in a lifetime. A mid-life crisis could also be a life changing experience. Whether it be a peak experience or a mid-life crisis (both?), getting a second chance at life before death can be important in evaluating what you are doing in life compared to what you want to do. What you are already doing in life could be want you want to do, but comparing these things by evaluating them is still important.

6. Brief and written explanation of the anime

Pay attention to how the brief and written explanation of the anime seen on this blog, or seeing the anime for yourself since that's better than any explanation, might “speak” to you or shed light on the things that have been on your minds.

A girl on life support ends up living in the video game she spent most, if not all, of her time playing while on life support when her life support stops working. In this video game world, which becomes real, she's incredibly powerful, helpful to others (when she wants to be), and friendly to others (again, when she wants to be). Even though she already has a family made up of children she adopted in the game, she decides to adopt another child she finds when living in this video game world, not just playing around in it. She does have other adventures throughout the anime that involve finding out more about why the world changed, but in the end, she settles down in the village where she started her new life in this video game world.

7.  Reflect on the anime

Has this brief and written explanation of the anime shed any light on what's been on your minds?  The following is an example of a reflection on the anime from me.

Even though it doesn't happen in the usual way, getting a second chance at life is still important in this anime, as well as evaluating what you are doing in life compared to what you want to do. When interacting with the world as a video game, it was how the main character passed her time while she was on life support. She had a lot of time for such interaction since she had nothing better to do while on life support, so she would want to check up on this interaction by finding out about it when she started living in the video game world when her life support stopped working. However, checking up on this interaction isn't what she has to do, but is part of what she wants to do. She also wants to start a new life in this video game world that doesn't involve the interactions she had in the world when interacting with it as a video game. This could be a peak experience and/or mid-life crisis for her, but whatever this experience is, it helps her evaluate what she did in her previous life on life support compared to what she wants to do, and can do, now in her new life.

8. Final Prayer

Please voice any prayer intentions for friends, family, or people around the world that relate to this anime.  The following is an example written by me.

Let us pray that we take the time to evaluate our lives during our lives, whether we need to do that or not.