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.
The low rumble that disturbs peace is the grumble. The grumbler is the fault-finder; the one who despises and defies and resents. These are strong words but I can see how disrupting this attitude can be. “Blessed are the peacemakers” I am told in this Sunday’s Gospel. When I take on a “I know better than you” attitude, it is jolting to family members and to others.
“It is the interior attitude that more than anything else can create or disrupt the common well-being and peace of the shared life.”(Esther de Waal, A Life-Giving Way, p.106). I need to be at peace, first within myself,and with myself, before being free to share in a sense of “joyous well-being”with others.” “…To enter into this peace we must enter into the experience of meditation itself” (John Main, Daily Reading, October 30) where what occurs is beyond my understanding and knowledge and over which I do not have any power or control except to be present to the One Who Is Peace.
The low rumble that disturbs peace is the grumble. The grumbler is the fault-finder; the one who despises and defies and resents. These are strong words but I can see how disrupting this attitude can be. “Blessed are the peacemakers” I am told in this Sunday’s Gospel. When I take on a “I know better than you” attitude, it is jolting to family members and to others.
ReplyDelete“It is the interior attitude that more than anything else can create or disrupt the common well-being and peace of the shared life.”(Esther de Waal, A Life-Giving Way, p.106). I need to be at peace, first within myself,and with myself, before being free to share in a sense of “joyous well-being”with others.” “…To enter into this peace we must enter into the experience of meditation itself” (John Main, Daily Reading, October 30) where what occurs is beyond my understanding and knowledge and over which I do not have any power or control except to be present to the One Who Is Peace.