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Perhaps life as a monk mimics life with Christ

Wednesday, 27 January 2010 15:50 by Britton
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Fewer rules

Fewer expectations

More reverence

Less “I'”

More “they”

Less efficiency

Less judgment

Less analysis

More acceptance

More tolerance

More humanity

More silence

More peace

More joy

More faith

More hope

More love

More Him

I am always struck by how complicated we like to make faith.  We like to surround it with stifling rules that don’t apply to everyone.  We like to judge others but then say that we don’t do that because we are Christians and, well…Christians don’t do that…but if we do we are “only basing it on the Word of God”.  We are godly after all, made in His image, following His decrees.  But are we?  When I read and absorb simple faith, it is then that I hear the hypocrisy inside myself--inside the constructs of Americanized Christianity.  It is in finding a personal relationship with God that I can understand what it is He wants of me.  Only in this place can I operate without an agenda I find suspect…

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January 28. 2010 04:34

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