I met a wild weasel yesterday. I had been working on our water system and was waiting for the overflow to confirm my repair job when an incredibly cute weasel hurried out of hiding just a couple feet away from me. I think we both felt similar emotions at that moment — quite curious, and…
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A Monastic Practice for Hurried Lives: Soul Sculpting
Statio. For monastics it works like this. The bell calling you to prayer will ring in about 5 minutes, but you’re already at the chapel. Ahead of time. And just in time for Statio. You stand quietly in the hallway, or you may enter the chapel and sit down. In the quiet, you mentally recollect and…
Prayer Projects to Deepen Our Connection with God: #5 Slowing Time
When Anthony Bloom was a young priest an elderly woman in her 90’s came to him for advice. He suggested she seek advice with someone wiser, but she said she had asked many people with no success and that perhaps Bloom in his young ignorance would by chance blunder and say the right thing. So…
1000 Things I Really Like: Soul Sculpting
I’m walking in the early winter woods. The leaves are nearly gone. A dusting of snow is on the ground. The air is crisp and clean. #519 Breathing crisp, clean air. I remember when I started my list many years ago. I was swinging in a hammock and reading the book One Thousand Gifts. In…
The Reward of Pausing: Soul Sculpting Project
It was the elk who affirmed my choice. Though he was only a few yards away, he didn’t seem to see me. I sat on a log – very still, watching him step over the broken fence and wander uphill. He felt like a gift. Had I not stopped my work and sat down…
Finding Flow: Soul Sculpting Project
Why walk to the South Pole? To banish time. Erling Kagge — who walked to the South Pole in 50 days, by himself – believes that time banishment is a significant motive for most people who take epic expeditions. Kagge says that on an expedition “momentary flashes of experience can be compared to eternity. ….
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