Ten Minute Mystic: Growing Like Trees (Matt. 7:15-20)
A few weeks ago I attended a retreat in Mobile, Alabama which consisted of five days of silence. In two weeks I’ll talk some more about that experience and about why silence is important to spiritual growth. But this morning I want to talk about something I did one afternoon during that retreat. One of the coordinators of the retreat asked me to spend most of a day trying to imagine the day that I would die. She asked me to envision a day in the future when I might be lying in a hospital bed with hours left to live; to imagine who might be gathered around me; to imagine what reasons I would have for thanksgiving on that day; and to imagine what reasons I might have for regrets on that day. She wanted me to spend most of a day thinking about the day I would die. To say the least, it was not a “feel good” exercise.Read More »Ten Minute Mystic: Growing Like Trees (Matt. 7:15-20)