31 Days on Cultivating Sanctuary
In December 2008, I published the first post to my blog. At the time, I was living in a large apartment building in the Allston/Brighton neighborhood of Boston ...
Category: 31 day on Cultivating Sanctuary
Leaving Sanctuary, Part One
Day 26 in a series on Cultivating Sanctuary. While cultivating sanctuary space and time is incredibly important in a world where such intentional practice is of...
Friday Florilegium
Day 25 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. (And yes, my faithful readers, I’ve had to choose not to blog a few times this week in order to ma...
Prayerful Diligence
Day 24 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. A humorous moment with God occurred a few years back as I complained to him, once again, about the writi...
Think Small
Day 22 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. In chaos theory, small changes in the initial stages of a pattern are believed to have large effects. On...
Friday Florilegium
Day 21 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. Ah, the lovely cadences of 19th century prayer! Taken from the daily devotional, Prayers Ancient and Mod...
The Idol of Perfectionism
Day 20 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. Writing daily on the blog has produced it’s own set of challenges. It takes about 2 hours from sta...
The New Desert
Day 19 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. Glendalough, Upper Lake. Kevin’s Cell is on the right up the mountain. In the 3rd and 4th centurie...
Pauses
Day 17 & 18 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. Taking a pause to breathe after being away at a conference in Chicago. Here is a sanctuary prac...