Do Not Depend on the Hope of Results

Do Not Depend on the Hope of Results

Wake Up!

A short interaction Nikos Kazantzakis had with a desert ascetic named Fr. Makarios. It is powerful. Enjoy!

Big Damn Hurry

We have drifted far from a lifestyle and culture that helps us to foster and practice contemplation. For man today, and most especially Western man, contemplation is a muscle that has atrophied. What is of value today is measured on one scale only and that scale is achievement. The problem with this philosophy is that we take our sense of worth from what we do rather than from who we are. If something is good only if it works then we are only good if we work and only as good as the work we do. AND if we are only valuable if we are achieving, producing and contributing no wonder we put away our handicapped, aged and sick. No wonder the unemployed, the retired and stay at home parents feel unfulfilled and useless.. – Click on Scholé to read the rest…

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

The Lord in His wisdom has given us all that we are able to handle. Only 24 hours, that is it. That really is not all that much once you factor in sleep, etc. It is a short amount of time and the Lord provides everything we need for today. He will take care of tomorrow giving us what we need to handle tomorrow when it comes. We can make preparations for tomorrow. We make some plans for the future, we plant our crops so that we can harvest. But we are called and are only called to do the job set before us today. Worry about tomorrow wastes today.

Beginning to Pray – Time Management

I will spare you any description of the way in which one can make time: I will only say that if we try and waste a little less of it, there will be more of it. If we use crumbs of wasted time to try to build short moments of recollection and prayer, we may discover that there is quite a lot of it.

Prayer Tomorrow Begins Today

I usually hike 5 times a week. This past week I was at a conference in San Jose, CA  and I only got one hike in. Yesterday was my first day back on my holy mountain (Camelback) and it was much more difficult. It got me thinking that the spiritual life is similar to physical [...]

I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately, I am inspired at nine o’clock every morning.

There is a little difficulty in figuring exactly who said, “I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately, I am inspired at nine o’clock every morning.” Most say William Faulkner said it. I do know that it is true. Any consistent discipline applied to art reaps great work. Jonathan Coulton may not be Mozart but he [...]

Dangerous Wonder

“We have a leisureless society of total work,” is how If We Stretch the Brethren Beyond Measure They Will Soon Break ends. Clay Workman commented, “I think that perhaps today we do have a leisureless society of total work, but that work has changed, and also the leisure. For work, instead of building fences and [...]

The Present Moment

“I can’t believe how fast things move on the outside. The world went and got itself into a big damn hurry.” Brooks, from the film Shawshank Redemption.
I get speeding tickets and maybe you do as well. But, I have yet to meet anyone else who has received a ticket from Highway Patrol for following to [...]

Curiosity

“In the case of “curiosity” the objects are things of passing interest which typically squander time better spent in pursuit of the other. Things that do not captivate us but, rather, we choose to hold onto – whose tangible reality have nothing to offer us in terms of understanding who and why we are, what [...]