A new experiment: contemplative Torah study

I've been reading Alan Lew. He recommends a torah study practice that I've decided to start trying, and I'm hoping that it will make it easier for me to write blog posts each week.  Lew practiced contemplative torah study. First you meditate, then you read the aliyah for the day. ( Each week's parsha is divided into 7 aliyot.) :

In Torah study both the passages that catch our attention and the passages that set us off on a long rumination are significant. They are God speaking to us through the text of the Torah. The practice of Torah study is the practice of hearing that voice.

Or we may simply notice that certain words or phrases or sentences in the text are charged as though lit from within. And we may notice moments in our life like that as well. When we put the charged words or phrases or sentences together with the charged moments, we  may find a significant rhyme, we find that one instructs us about the other, and that both taken together are extremely significant for us, telling us something we really needed to know.  -- Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life

So that's what I will try to do. Perhaps dealing with smaller chunks of text in a more contemplative way will make it easier for me to grab hold of ideas for blog posts. We shall see.

Perhaps nothing will make it easier.