sorry for the lack of blogging.

hey guys, sorry i haven’t blogged lately. i see that many people have been checking in for anything new. i’ve been busy with the end of school, then helping with and attending a women in ministry conference in dallas, texas, and then working a lot this week. also, i no longer sit at coffeeshops staring [...]

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just a few quotes

all truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- galileo galilei
in mathematics you don’t understand things. you just get used to them.
- johann von neumann
what we play is life.
- louis armstrong

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what i need to hear from chittister and benedict

let us now listen. i, at least, am and will.
from joan chittister’s commentary on the rule of benedict:
the fifth rung of the ladder of humilty is an unadorned and disarming one: self-revelation, benedict says, is necessary to growth. going through the motions of religion is simply not sufficient. no, the benedictine heart, the spiritual heart, [...]

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list of favorite books, first installment

in the midst of procrastinating, i’m going to make a list of my favorite books. i finished my erasmus paper. it’s on to john cassian and the practice of the virtues, focusing on discretion/discernment in light of humility and their affects on spiritual direction. wish me luck. but, instead of working on that, here are [...]

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