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 I got very excited today. Through some surfing around, I found that John Michael Talbot actually has a blog that he updates on a regular basis. This is very cool stuff. John has been used by God as my minstrel, if you will, for quite a few years. His music has helped me pray, meditate, go through dark nights of the soul, and has taught and encouraged me. Thanks, John, for being faithful and consistent for all this time.I've also been inspired by his vocation, his planting of a rural monastic community for married, single and celibate people, in Arkansas. Every time I think of that place and what they're doing, it gives me hope for my own future, the future of who knows how many people who will do this with us. Liz and I visited there once, on a trip we took for our 10th anniversary. We were in Eureka Springs and went to the Little Portion store there. One of the Sisters told us we should go up and pray evening prayer with them that night, she said, "I think John is there this week." So yeah, we went. We had a nice little time with them there. Another Sister (Raphael I believe, if I remember right) met us in the welcome center and gave us a whirlwind tour of the place before the bell rang. We sat with them in their choir just behind John and his wife Viola as he played the guitar for our chanting. It was a bit surreal for me, a very cool experience. I didn't talk to him at the time. I didn't really feel like bugging him. I'd love to have a sit-down with him sometime though and talk about what they're doing and what I want to do in the not-too-distant future. technorati tags > john michael talbot, monasticism Labels: blogging, monasticism :::
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three quotes |:: "Then, if we cannot as yet think alike in all things, at least we may love alike. Herein we cannot possibly do amiss." "Keep your eyes on the crucifix, for Jesus without the cross
is a man without a mission, and the cross without Jesus
is a burden without a reliever." "...I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be
completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self."
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