WOW Moment: Thoughts from Thomas Merton and Comments from Outside the Coop

Lets remember during our upcoming decision making:

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire."

"I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me."

After reading the last two above I'm glad that by our membership at SCUU we affirm:

Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in the congregations;

A free and responsible search for truth and meaning.

With these thought let us work towards our great migration to the property and the Yurt and Sugarloaf House.

For there is an assumption in Thomas Merton's next thought:

"An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck."

The assumption is that you have a coop! I'm sure some of us think a monastery sounds good right about now.

Celebrating, learning about, and sharing life are spiritual endeavors and spiritual enough.

May we build a coop of our own: Quack, Quack, Quack

Of course once we complete our migration to the property everything will be ducky.

love, hope, faith, hold fast