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Heading out

After the jail visit today, I am heading out to a camping ground with my extended family for Sat. night until Sun.After receiving the feedback on my term-paper, I wrote this note back to my professor:I appreciated the op…
Education

I just finish my term paper on Gospel-Centered Spiritual Formation today. Phew. I probably won't get a very good grade on this one because it might not be what my prof expected. But it's for my own foundational thinki…
Will this change your spiritual life?

From my reading today I stumbled across this question:What would happen to your life if you lived in close geographical community and relationship with other people; if you lived in submission to authority; if you practi…
Reading "The Way of the Heart" - Pt.2 & 3

Words… have lost their creative power… caused us to think, more often than not, "They are just words." … Preachers preach their sermons week after week and year after year. But their parishioners remain the same and ofte…
Do I really need to be completely turn off?

I got a comment back from my professor on Spiritual Formation on my recent "Day Alone With God" experiment: I would encourage you to attempt it again some time soon, and to truly get away from your everyday responsibilit…
Reading "The Way of the Heart" - Pt.1

"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us.'" [Quoted from “The Saying of the Desert Fathers”] – p.33Compassion is the…
Reading "Benedictine’s Rules for the Daily Life" - Pt.2

The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can do nothing to make this globe a better place to live are both temptations of the most insidious form. One leads to arrogance; the other to despair. – p.70T…
Reading "Benedictine’s Rules for the Daily Life" - Pt.1

Here are my favorite quotes...Benedictine spirituality is about listening to four realities: the Gospels, the Rule, one another, and the world around us. Most of us listen easily to one or two of these realities, but onl…
Dream: "If I ever call you..."

I spent 24 hours away my family and the routine living in supposedly solitude and silence to listen to God last Friday, and nothing noticeable happened.Then last night I had a strange dream...Twenty years ago I had stran…
Day 8 on SF Journey: where TK and DW meets...

I am near the end of Willard's Great Omission - and here I heard echo of TK in DW:Christians who do read their Bibles often don't know their Bibles. The reason is because don't really read their Bible as a treatise on r…