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Speaking to the Soul: New Every Morning

March 29, 2017 No Comments

Even when sitting alone at my desk to pray my prayers in the morning, I am never alone.

Behold…stuff!

October 30, 2016 2 Comments

Being in a monastery during Advent was like being inside a cozy New England Inn during a terrible nor’easter – a terrible, loud, windy, snowy storm. Sitting by a fire with spiced, hot wine during a gale-force-winds-storm is how it felt to sing and pray by candle-light in a habit while the world around us rushed by

Kneading our daily bread

May 1, 2016 No Comments

When I ask for “my daily bread” what is underneath my request of God in “The Lord’s Prayer” is not simply bread, but the kind of real honesty which bread implies. Give me integrity – a real thing being a real thing. Let me be real by knowing who I am, knowing what I want

Rule of Life: Remembering your relationship with God

March 13, 2016 1 Comment

The first chapter reminds us to member our conversion, be it a moment, a season or a slow dawning over many years. What was your first and primary “yes” to God or have you simply been going with a flow? Remember your “yes.”

Getting real in your Rule – three difficult chapters

March 6, 2016 No Comments

This originally appeared as part of the Daily Sip, a ministry of St John’s Cathedral in Denver, CO by Charles LaFond In this series

Writing Rule of Life – loss and grief

February 28, 2016 3 Comments

Grief is heavy. It drags one down like a burlap bag of scrap metal over one’s shoulder – it weighs down, heavy, and sharp metal ends – jagged, rusty tear-stained bits poke through the burlap and then the shirt into one’s fleshy back.

Writing a Rule of Life – a consideration of our thoughts

February 21, 2016 No Comments

We spend a lot of our time thinking, we humans do. And much of our thinking is fear-based, shame-based and anxiety-producing causing sleepless nights and cancer. So our Rule of Life needs to have some chapters that help to remind us of how we want to be in relationship with our thoughts – what our own thought-boundaries are, or what we hope them to one day become.