Category: Rule of St. Benedict
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Get into Hot Water – A Free Offering
Today I offer an excerpt from the upcoming free Householder’s Mini-Retreat. Day One “Let us get up then, at long last, for the Scriptures rouse when they say, ‘It is high time for us to rise from sleep’ (Rom. 13:11). Let us open our eyes to the light that comes from God, and our ears to the…
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Silence
Today Today I’m flying low and I’m not saying a word. I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. The world goes on as it must, the bees in the garden rumbling a little, the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten. And so forth. But I’m taking the day off. Quiet as a feather. I…
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Patience, Young Padawan
“Patience you must have, my young Padawan,” says Yoda to Luke Skywalker. When I say this to Cole he doesn’t understand the Star Wars reference. Or patience for that matter. I’m not convinced I understand patience either. Patience is “the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.” I do a decent…
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Chickens and Goats
In the November 30th episode of the Daily Show the host, Trevor Noah, commented on the CNN report by Nima Elbagir et al. on the slave trade in Libya saying, “. . . In 2017 you don’t expect the breaking news to be ‘Slave Auctions are Back.’” Sadly, the slave auction in Libya is breaking…
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The Mountain is Detail: The Tension of Faith and Vision
A friend who spent most of his life in the mountains and now lives in the Piedmont recently said to me, “My only beef with North Carolina is the tree canopy. You can’t look out over things.” He has a point. In New Mexico, you can see everything. The land is BIG. The sky is…
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A Wisdom of Eve
“The health of the family, society, and culture that revolves around a woman depends to a large degree on her health, and her health rests in turn on her ability to keep her creative energies flowing (Shakti). Our concern in Ayurveda is to help women find those channels, both inside and outside themselves, within which…
Melinda Emily Thomas 