Ascetics and making it real

When I started Lent I get myself into a very specific refined schedule. Prayerline, coffee, organic fruits, seeds and yogurt. It included three churches, sometimes four, bibles studies, podcasts, and bikerides to do the yoga sun rituals…and then I started to do the organic foods too, and lost touch with my mangroves and gardens …

It really all started with such clarity and power knowing each day was filled with clear purpose and actions? Mostly gardens and plantings. . . Like here in this video I bike out to visit some beginning at one of the bike rental places anyone can park next to and startup their own missionary work here in Saint Petersburg.

 

I knew i had to get myself into a very specific refined schedule. Prayerline, coffee, organic fruits, seeds and yogurt was very powerful as I recognized this diet would cure most all sickness created by the greed matrix. It’s been a challenge about accepting my responsibility to bring this forward, as I now discover more of my space has people in it. And it kinda freaks me out. Like how can this be happening to me. Sweetest, kindest, most helpful and courteous gentleman possible and still wicked bizarre shit happens that pushes me to the limits or stress and anxiety.

It happened with Nicky too?!?!?

Reflect on the difference in your prayer, making sure you are rooted in what really matters. 

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Week 4 Action Items

1. Meditate on the Resurrection.
2. Get outside.
3. Continue to focus on Confession.

6:07:13 and the rain starts… Christ will answer our prayers in his name, but if he does not answer in exactly the same way we think does not mean that we have failed. Christ himself prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane that, if possible, the cup of suffering that was his lot would pass from him. Was his prayer, the prayer of the Son himself, faulty? We can only think so if we ignore how he prayed, asking for what he wanted but adding, “nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done” (Luke 22:42).

That “whatever” must be understood in the sense that all of our prayers must be like his. They are all prayers, ultimately, that the Father’s will, which is perfect, would be done. We have to understand that Jesus understands what will fulfill our deepest desires, and his answers to our prayers aim to bring us to our ultimate flourishing.

In your prayer today, bring to the Lord some subject, past or present, in which you have had difficulty seeing that your prayers have been answered. Pray for the ability to trust the Lord’s plan for you in this and the ability to see how he has been answering you already.


Yes more from my studies in Exodus 90 … and I Flashed to John writing the books for me too. Like a random vision or leaving my home and I started to cry.

I started to cry again now