How many monks does it take to change a light bulb? That depends on whether they’ve gotten around to installing the compact fluorescent ones inside the abbey. For the Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, the preferred answer is “Not many monks at all.”
The Tools for Thought blog has a thoughtful post tackling the problems many would-be followers of Getting Things Done have with the Someday/Maybe list, where you (supposedly) place realistic things you just can’t get to right now. Many lists are ignored, for example, because they’re just too darn long.
Toward the end of the book there’s a scene where the main character is introduced to what it might look like if you could see each other truly. What if you could see each individual’s personality and emotions as color and light?
Welcome to In the Coracle, Pat Loughery's blog. Make yourself at home, and do join in the conversation by commenting on what you find here.
I make my living as a software engineer and project manager. I have particular interest in social software, social networks, and systems that build relationship between people.
I blog a lot these days about spirituality and spiritual formation, and I have a particular interest in learning from the early Christian church's approach to spirituality and mission.
I'm a student at Bakke Graduate University, studying for a Doctor of Ministry in Transformational Leadership for the Global City.
I'm studying spiritual formation in an Internet-based world. I'm trying to learn from early Christian spirituality's monastic movements: the desert fathers and mothers, Benedictines, Celts, Fransciscans and others, in order to see how they ordered their values and actions to be fully devoted to God's work. Their total devotion to the presence of God was countercultural, that can show us what it means to be countercultural in our wholehearted devotion to God in contemporary culture.
You can read more about me and this blog at the About page.
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