In the crazy transitions I go through, the fast pace of life even when I’m trying to squash all busyness like spiders, the one solid anchor I have is Christ. Christ the unmovable, the unchanging, the steady. I set my feet firmly on him.
Images of the hermit caves on the Skelligs in southern Ireland come to mind. Those rocks are not only the home for those ancient hermits – the home at the edge of the world, overlooking the edge of the world – but their home is the Lord. Not just reminds them of, or is as solid as, but is. Can i plant myself, my house, my job, my time in the same way?
so that my ankles to not give way(v36)
Six months after i broke my right ankle, it is still not at full strength. I step oddly and it turns, and I’m afraid of re-breaking it. I am cautious when hiking, running, doing exercise. I’m always conscious that something might go wrong. But if the Sacred Trinity provides a broad path for me, for my life and the choices and actions therein, can I trust the path and not focus on the risk of re-breaking what I’ve already broken?
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.
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