malibumark

I have been thinking about my own style and how that sustains me during the day - rather thantotal indulgence or lazy ineffectiveness. I am seeing we each pursue our own brand of grace out...

I was lying here getting my head around how to keep positive and feel directed in life, but then the whole issue of entertaining myself in between major events wasn't clear to me. I find that it's...

I wrote this to my friend the Abbess who is living abroad right now.I then talked to my friend in Canada.I am doing better because I think I know what I need which you will see in this note. Dear...

I wrote this to A:For your understanding of the monastics here, for when you write about them, they are extremely high strung and hard on themselves. We tend to seek consolation for very small...

Sometimes thinking about what I neef to do, and understanding the models or patterns of what that is, the initial designs, leaves me feeling insatiably exhausted. I've realized I need to think...

Honestly the monastery is just a place where humans deal with the same animal natures and needs that we all have, just in a very different way. With a different emphasis let's say. I definitely need...

Giving confession is such a blessing. I am so grateful. It’s lovely to help others and the commonality I see in my life and in all of our lives is inspiring. We all have areas of ourselves, that...

HappinessA happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.Helen Keller

I'm just waking up, having coffee and I'm fighting the depression within me. I realize I would like things a certain way in my life, but it's important that I stay in the here and now and decide what...

While sister Gabrielia convalesces I awake at 415a to get down to church asap 5(am)to set up the church. I like to be sure to get everything done with time to spare. All new wicks and oil. Then...

I’m thinking of life’s action and life’s professional pursuit in the metaphor of a conversation. Right or wrong it’s important to stay in the conversation. Does that make sense? We can have...

I was all set to have a morning free today but the priest whowas supposed to stand in for me called out sick.I shifted gears and went down to the services already in progress to fill in for him.As I...

They use me here to do most services. The other priests don’t have a regular schedule and they very often get sick. Today I am doing a new service, a memorial at the gravesite of a parishioner. I...

I woke up this morning to my alarm at 445am.I lingered in bed until 515am until I told myself'this is no joke...get to work!' :)I got down to church and started setting up...my meds, for some reason...