C. Paul Schroeder's Blog, page 5
January 3, 2017
How to Invite More Vitality and Passion into Your Life this Year
(This is an excerpt from Chapter Four of the forthcoming bookPractice Makes PURPOSE: Six Spiritual Practices that Will Change Your Life and Transform Your Community.It focuses on the practice of Intentional Welcoming, "the ability to say no and mean it so we can say yes to the things that matter most to us.")When we want to start practicing Intentional Welcoming, we have to begin by clearly defining our priorities. In order to become more intentional about what (and who) we are welcoming into...
December 28, 2016
The Human Dilemma in a Nutshell
This excerpt from Chapter One is a continuation of a the story "What the Suspicious Monk Saw in the Moonlight" from a few weeks ago. If you haven't read the story, or want to refresh your memory, you can find ithere.
This little story packs a powerful lesson: how you see determines what you see, and do not see, By looking at the world through the lens of his judgments, the suspicious monk’s vision became clouded. Like him, I make judgments about other people all the time. I hate to admit that,...
This little story packs a powerful lesson: how you see determines what you see, and do not see, By looking at the world through the lens of his judgments, the suspicious monk’s vision became clouded. Like him, I make judgments about other people all the time. I hate to admit that,...
December 20, 2016
Radical Hospitality - Guest Post by Mary Dettmann
The following post was written in response to the excerpt from Chapter Six, "The Secret of Giving Joyfully," that I posted last week. Mary Dettmann is a friend and a force for good, one of the pillars ofRahab's Sisters, a ministry of "radical hospitality" for marginalized women in the sex industry and others who need a safe space on Friday nights off of 82nd Avenue in Portland, Oregon. She may not be much of a "rule-follower" (to use her words), but she backs up her words with her life, som...
December 13, 2016
The Secret of Giving Joyfully
(Excerpted from Chapter Six of the forthcoming bookPractice Makes PURPOSE: Six Spiritual Practices that Will Change Your Life and Transform Your Community)The Elder's Gift
There was once a monastic brother who had a book in his quarters that was very valuable. It was written on parchment and bound in gold, and it contained a complete copy of the scriptures, a great rarity in those days. One day, another brother asked if he could borrow the book for a time in order to copy out some sections. Th...
There was once a monastic brother who had a book in his quarters that was very valuable. It was written on parchment and bound in gold, and it contained a complete copy of the scriptures, a great rarity in those days. One day, another brother asked if he could borrow the book for a time in order to copy out some sections. Th...
