WCCM Benedictine Oblates are encouraged to read a designated portion of the Rule daily, and to write a brief, personal response. I hope that this blog will support our Oblate community in this practice. Please, keep blog entries brief and in a first-person ("I") voice. Refrain from discussing, offering an opinion, or commenting on other entries. Simply consider how a particular section of the Rule is speaking to you in your present circumstances.
Let me be grateful for all that I have been given and let me not feel “self-important” or deserving or hard-working, or strong or whatever other qualities that I might like to attribute to myself. This chapter asks me to “be at peace” with “the kindness” shown to me and as I read this chapter to extend that same peace and kindness to others. More and more in the reality of life, I am being shown the poverty that exists within and outside of the borders of my family, town, and world which is not always of a material kind. Throughout the Rule there is a thread that weaves me into the Benedictine fabric, if I let it, and that is to be lovingly and unconditionally open to all, seeing in every person the sacred, the holy, the Christ.
Let me be grateful for all that I have been given and let me not feel “self-important” or deserving or hard-working, or strong or whatever other qualities that I might like to attribute to myself. This chapter asks me to “be at peace” with “the kindness” shown to me and as I read this chapter to extend that same peace and kindness to others. More and more in the reality of life, I am being shown the poverty that exists within and outside of the borders of my family, town, and world which is not always of a material kind. Throughout the Rule there is a thread that weaves me into the Benedictine fabric, if I let it, and that is to be lovingly and unconditionally open to all, seeing in every person the sacred, the holy, the Christ.
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