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oday is that all of us may be united one day together in the kingdom of god as faithful brothers and sisters in christ bro dave abbot st brendan s celtic christian monastery is a non denominational online monastery without wall that accepts christians female and male of all religious traditions who are on a contemplative path to god into the order to learn more about our monastery please visit us posted in uncategorized leave a comment how do you like your lunch posted on july 9 2015 by st brendan s celtic christian monastery in our politically correct society there seems to be a tendency to want to be good often at the expense of being right today someone who is good doesn t say things that might hurt another s feelings but rather uses language in ways to avoid confronting problems and thus ensure that everyone feels good words are the mental tools that we use to think our choice of words or the word choices that society presents us with constrain our thinking words are the lens that color the way we see the world the words that we can use frame the questions that we ask and the ways that we formulate our answers words control our thinking for example my youngest son became a proud graduate of 5 th grade this past spring in his school there were no losers only winners students who did poorly on exams weren t told sorry you failed the exam i suggest you study harder next time failure was not an allowed word choice in his school they were told you were study challenged whatever that is and now that you know what the questions on the test are why don t you take it over i m sure you will do better the second time this attitude use to drive my son crazy like dad why can t they study and do it right the first time i had a student last year who failed my required course for the fourth time twice with me twice with another professor we had a talk after the failed final exam and i was told by the student i have taken this class four times i think that i deserve at least a c in the class i have been told that i m differentially abled i m not able to study like the other students because studying is boring in both of these examples the truth had been hidden from the students by feel good language words like study challenged and differentially abled were used so that some teacher in the past wouldn t feel like the heavy telling the student the truth and the student wouldn t feel bad by being told you didn t study hard enough you need to study harder or you are lazy quit playing video games in the dorm and study the concept of sin has almost disappeared from our society because it s not politically correct to talk about it the problem with that is that if we can t talk about sin then we can t talk about righteousness either without darkness there in no light everything becomes a boring shade of grey remember what the lord does with shades of grey lukewarm christians try revelation 3 16 if you don t remember so then because thou art lukewarm a shade of grey and neither cold nor hot i will spue thee out of my mouth kjv i don t like lukewarm food i want my hot food hot and my cold food cold i don t want lukewarm believers fair weather believers shades of grey believers or pastors who won t tell the truth because the truth hurts while society s version of what is right and wrong may change i don t think that the lord s view of right and wrong changes with every shift of the breeze that moves society jesus christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever heb 13 8 kjv i chose to be on the lord s side joshua 24 15 to think about the words that i use and the words that society tries to impose on me so that my thinking is clear and consistent with biblical truth and most of all not to be lukewarm may god hold you in the palm of his hand this day and always bro dave abbot st brendan s celtic christian monastery is a non denominational online monastery without wall that accepts christians female and male of all religious traditions who are on a contemplative path to god into the order to learn more about our monastery please visit us posted in uncategorized leave a comment faith is posted on july 7 2015 by st brendan s celtic christian monastery abraham s departure by jozsef molnar mark twain one of my favorite american humorists and authors once said faith is believing something you know ain t true another definition of faith is that it is the belief in something that is hoped for but for which one has no firm knowledge after all if you know that something is true then faith is unnecessary i have a different view of faith before i give my definition i want to motivate it with an example i have faith in my wife heidi we have been married for almost 18 years and have obviously i hope known each other for longer than that i think that i know her pretty well and she knows me really well we often say the same thing in unison we finish each others sentences and we trust each other she recently spent over a month in south america all alone by the way i worried about her safety but i didn t worry that she wouldn t be true to me she has demonstrated over and over that i can trust her in fact she is so trust worthy that the idea of her not being true doesn t enter into my mind i have faith in her mark twain i m not trying to believe something that i know isn t true i have faith because repeated experiences with heidi have taught me that i can trust her to me then faith is trust that flows from repeated positive experiences i have the same kind of faith in god i trust him because repeated experiences mine others and historical accounts from the scriptures have demonstrated to me that he is consistent caring and reliable i know that if i put my faith trust in him he won t let me down have you ever gone through a team building workshop i lead them from time to time one of the group exercises that we do is the backwards fall one team member crosses her arms closes her eyes and then falls backwards the rest of the team is standing behind her with out stretched arms ready to catch her as she falls this exercise is designed to teach team members that they can trust have faith in each other when they fall the team will lift them up do we have the same kind of faith in god are we willing to close our eyes fold our arms and fall backwards into the unknown trusting that he will be there to catch us to lift us up another team building exercise that i enjoy using is the mine field one team member is left blindfolded leaning against a wall at the far end of a large room a gymnasium works great for this another team member walks to the opposite wall and waits while the rest of the team sets up obstacles things like folding chairs trash cans tennis balls etc the obstacles literally litter the floor once ready the guiding team member calls out to his blindfolded colleague and tells him to start walking the guide has to give the blindfolded team members instructions turn left take three steps turn right stop backup one step to safely lead his blind colleague through the mine field do we have the same kind of trust faith in god he can see our mine field and wants to guide us through it for that to happen we have to 1 be listening and 2 be willing to follow his instructions abram had that kind of trust faith god said abram it s time to get out of ur my response might have been why now where are we going can this wait i ve got some really important stuff to do first i ve got to liquidate my inventory and raise some cash if we are going on a road trip abram didn t say that he loaded his family into the van and left town then and there no questions asked and he got directions along the way you know the rest of the story abram continued with the same kind of rapid and complete obedience that is born out of complete trust faith and became abraham the father of nations monks and friends of our monastery i hope that all of us can develop the same kind of faith trust in god that abraham had i have a feeling the way the world is going that we are going to need it may god hold you in the palm of his hand this day and always bro dave abbot st brendan s celtic christian monastery is a non denominational online monastery without wall that accepts christians female and male of all religious traditions into the order to learn more about our monastery please visit us posted in uncategorized leave a comment compartmentalization posted on july 5 2015 by st brendan s celtic christian monastery i was thinking last night and again i was surprised when it happened it seems like i like so many people go through most of life on autopilot anyway i was thinking about my students at the university where i teach and how they seem to constantly compartmentalize their knowledge for example a lot of what they learn in intermediate microeconomics is valuable in the graduate decision making course that i teach however it seems that in their minds microeconomics was a different course and so that box full of knowledge doesn t get opened up in my class that is unless i open the box for them that problem seems to be endemic for example we all have physical financial and spiritual lives but we seem to keep them separate a compartmentalized life we act as if there were no connections or spillovers from one part of our life to another we don t realize and consequently don t act as if one part of our life influences another but they do financial resources affect what you are able to do in your physical life physical well being affects how hard you can work and play and consequently your financial life our spiritual lives should be the foundation of our lives but for way too many christians the spiritual life is confined to 90 minutes as a passive spectator at church once a week i really don t think that is what god had in mind for us when we were created my view of a real life is a complete whole life in this view of life our physical financial and spiritual lives are all part of the whole with the spiritual life on the bottom as the foundation we shouldn t be a single being experience three different lives but rather a spiritual being experiencing all of life some time ago i wrote a blog post on being perfect me perfect based on matthew 5 48 the admonition to be perfect isn t just a new testament idea we find it all the way back in genesis and when abram was ninety years old and nine the lord appeared to abram and said unto him i am the almighty god walk before me and be thou perfect genesis 17 1 kjv in hebrew that command to be perfect comes from the work tamiym which means to be complete to be whole to be entire to be unimpaired to be healthful to have integrity and to be according to the truth when we are complete whole and entire we realize that we have only one life and that all of its parts are interrelated connected and comprise the whole we also walk in the truth and realize that our relationship with our creator should inform and motivate all that we are and do and so fellow monks friends and readers let s find ways to be whole and to integrate our being with god as our foundation and the lord as our guide bro dave st brendan s celtic christian monastery is a non denominational online monastery without wall that accepts christians female and male of all religious traditions into the order to learn more about our monastery please visit us posted in uncategorized leave a comment meek and lowly posted on july 4 2015 by st brendan s celtic christian monastery be as one of these in matthew 11 29 we read take my yoke upon you and learn of me for i am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls kjv i have always wondered about that verse if we take his yoke upon us does that mean that we are to be meek as well and if so what does it mean to be meek paul for me at least reinforces that idea that we are to be like christ in all that we do he wrote that i may know him and the fellowship of his sufferings phil 3 10 kjv years ago this verse lead me to my great question i have had a lot of big questions questions like why was i born and what is the purpose of my life and what is smaller than a quark however for me that great question became was christ real and did he atone for my sins once i was able to honestly answer that question for myself the other questions became easier and less pressing here are a couple of word lists for you the first column contains a list of synonyms for the word meek and the second lists a few antonyms synonyms antonyms submissive mild gentle humble modest unpretentious unassuming teachable arrogant haughty conceited egotistical pompous pretentious presumptuous uppity now i ask you which list of words would you like your friends to use to describe you do you like to hang out with people from the first or second list what word do we often place after the word pompous is that the kind of descriptor that you would like used to describe you or your friends a related scripture that i particularly enjoy is 2 peter 1 5 9 5 and beside this giving all diligence add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge 6 and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness 7 and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity 8 for if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our lord jesus christ 9 but he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins kjv i use this verse almost every night when i review the day and ask myself whether or not i manifested the qualities that peter listed as i interacted with others most days i fall short but this verse gives me a meter stick that i can use to measure my performance in the last verse above peter mentions that those who don t have these qualities cannot see far off to me this means that they are short sighted myopic and probably can t see beyond the end of their noses and so my fellow monks and friends take a few minutes this weekend and think about the kind of person that you are and the kind of person that you would like to be which list of descriptors would you like someone to place upon your tombstone some day or read as part of your eulogy i sure don t want someone to read i remember dave he was the most most haughty arrogant conceited and pompous person that ever walked the face of the earth at my funeral may god hold you in the palm of his hand as we walk together in meekness bro dave st brendan s celtic christian monastery is a non denominational online monastery without wall that accepts christians female and male of all religious traditions into the order to learn more about our monastery please visit us posted in uncategorized 2 comments god is love posted on june 25 2015 by st brendan s celtic christian monastery i m not really into memorizing bible verses it just sort of happens when i read the same verse over and over again i memo...