tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967220883459320076.post7552283986466647887..comments2023-09-19T04:04:18.976-07:00Comments on Letters from the Breach: An Ordered Lifekrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07072140795827345541noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967220883459320076.post-60450741819166404512009-02-09T17:46:00.000-08:002009-02-09T17:46:00.000-08:00No worries. You were clear in saying "trying to be...No worries. You were clear in saying "trying to be perfect" an impossible state that I'm all too familiar with.krishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072140795827345541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967220883459320076.post-56886985218589992562009-02-09T13:11:00.000-08:002009-02-09T13:11:00.000-08:00Oh dear, I hope no one thought I was serious about...Oh dear, I hope no one thought I was serious about the being perfect thing - only just plagued by perfectionism. Isn't that the ugly twin sister to pride?Craig and Bethanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12779997485604319727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967220883459320076.post-80004665675105572082009-02-09T08:47:00.000-08:002009-02-09T08:47:00.000-08:00Goat, I'm rather found of you current rules. Espec...Goat, I'm rather found of you current rules. Especially the second one.<BR/><BR/>B, name it and claim it, girl: If you can't see it from the highway . . .<BR/><BR/>I'm rather in favor of simplicity as well. Any thing else seems to too easily spin off into legalism. What's interesting to me is that the founders of these orders recognized that one person's "love others" might vary from another's. I've read that witch hunters actually thought they were doing their victims a favor by burning them at the stake because it released the soul. Hmm. So, sometimes specificity is in order. (Though can you ever be specific enough to thwart the corruption of a fallen world?)<BR/><BR/>Another thing that comes to mind: these really detailed rules of life were designed to help a certain subset of folks live in community in a particular way (that is with their particular spin on Jesus' Big Two). It's part of what makes the Trappists different from the Jesuits, for example. And the community was exclusive and extremely tight (claustrophobic perhaps, for us) with obedience and submission being "the" way. We really don't do community that way any more (not even with our families). <BR/><BR/>So I think it will be fun to look at the diaconal vows and see how they might play out in a 21st century life and in a "community" of deacons that's more like a professional organization (from what I can tell, anyway). Stay tuned . . .krishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072140795827345541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967220883459320076.post-4879805043173442662009-02-08T23:36:00.000-08:002009-02-08T23:36:00.000-08:00When the robot is done at your house can he come t...When the robot is done at your house can he come to mine? <BR/><BR/>My rule - do what is right. I feel comfortable in my own skin when I do the right thing. A lot of peripheral just sort of drops away. The conundrum is my wild love affair with trying to be perfect. What is it, something about what you can see from the highway...Craig and Bethanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12779997485604319727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967220883459320076.post-25364925631631906532009-02-08T21:34:00.000-08:002009-02-08T21:34:00.000-08:00I always tell my children the rule is--DO GOOD. BE...I always tell my children the rule is--DO GOOD. BE GOOD. <BR/>At church they saythe rule is--LOVE GOD LOVE PEOPLE.<BR/>My current rule of life is just THANK YOU.And IF I AM LATE TO A MEETING I AM REQUIRED TO BUY THE COFFEE.<BR/>I have to keep it simple or I forget.But there is some merit to NO PAIN NO GAIN.Susan Cowgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12009157421965361554noreply@blogger.com