12/11/2022 0 Comments Inspirit online guide![]() ![]() But the more we add, the more can go wrong: one car, one set of problems two cars, two sets. It is always about adding one more thing. In fact, the “good life” is often defined by how full, busy and complicated our lives are. ![]() ‘Tis gift to be free.” We may agree with the sentiment, but there has never been a more complicated, cluttered, bureaucratic society than the one we live in today. Calhoun’s reflection questions and spiritual exercises in this excerpt from her Spiritual Disciplines Handbook encourage us to take hold of both opportunities: we can embrace losses and limitations as occasions to have our priorities re-calibrated, and we can regularly engage in Spirit-guided purging of non-essentials so that our love for God and others can flourish.Įxcerpt from Spiritual Disciplines HandbookĪn old Shaker song goes “‘Tis a gift to be simple. ![]() Some margin comes to us circumstantially and some through intentional discipline. When I consider Richard Foster’s description of Simplicity in A Celebration of Discipline and read Calhoun’s reflections here, it makes me wonder if we could add another Beattitude to the list: Blessed are the aging, for they have more margin for God. #Inspirit online guide full#She explains how habits of acquiring, full schedules, and ambitious undertakings can engulf us in “muchness and manyness” that competes with our attention to God. I love this reflection from Adele Calhoun. ![]()
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