rule of life

  Descretio: Discernment and Discretion Jesus asks me if I am a Christian or if I am Christianish.  To be a Christian is to follow Jesus and to use Jesus’…

Retreats There must be times of retreat or else humans will become lost in work, production, materialism and suffering, losing their way simply by wandering off the gentle path which…

As you write your Rule of Life, remember that some of your chapters will be hard ones to write, such a a chapter on betrayal.  It is hard to remember…

The window of Eden in The Nave of Saint John's Cathedral : evil is beautiful and majestic with wide wings and a purple body. In the first window, eve (an…

There is a part of me which wishes that I did not need a chapter on kindness in my Rule of Life.  I wish I were so innately kind to…

A Chapter on Kindness in your Rule of Life What follows are quotes I have found in my commonplace book, a large leather-bound book in which I write down the…

Practice daily meditation - it is how your God and you are and remain in relationship.  If you notice that you are skipping a daily meditation practice, stop and ask…

Meditation’s Re-membering A Rule of Life chapter.  How would you write your chapter on remembering your relationship with God? You live in a strange world.  Remember that you have always…

A Chapter of a Rule of Life on Stillness Practice ”Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being, between the…