Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment | 
"We see the needy suffer and become involved. Caught up in the net of need ourselves, we cannot get beyond it... Our worldly help serves worldly need to die another day, but spiritual work recalls lost souls to God."
Someone loaned me this unedited, rambling, ego-trip. Gimme a break. We all have our gifts but don't tell me that ignoring suffering to contemplate your navel is a higher calling. My life in the woods is my rehab, not my mission.
mobill76 "Even the spiritual life can become an arrogant trap if we do not realize that the spiritual life is not a game to be won by spiritual skills. The spiritual life is simply the God-life already at work in us. ¶ An obligation to human community and a dependence on God, then, become the cornerstones of Benedictine life." -Joan Chittister O.S.B., "The Rule of Benedict" 3y
BookBabe Yikes. I definitely won‘t be reading this one. Meanwhile, would you consider posting some pictures of your life in the woods? I never knew anyone living off-grid, it‘s fascinating. 3y
mobill76 @BookBabe There's a lot of that in Christian non-fiction. You either get the completely esoteric stuff by people who've been sitting on a pillar for 20 years. Or you get the blow-by-blow chronicle of 20 years of activism and leper colony ministry. Balance is rare. 3y
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mobill76 @BookBabe I'm kinda reluctant to post personal pics and risk turning this into another FB (https://www.facebook.com/mobill76) or YouTube (https://youtube.com/user/mobill76) or Blogspot (http://billmontgomery.blogspot.com/). I think people tend to romanticize about tiny houses and off-the-grid living. It's an extreme solution - like faith. When all else has failed you, it might fix some things. I never would've chosen to live this way voluntarily. 3y
mobill76 @BookBabe I do very much appreciate your interest, though. That's why I post videos like the hammock breaking. No sense wasting it. Somebody needs to laugh. Someone needs to know that they're not alone in being alone. And some just need to appreciate that at least it hasn't come to living in a garden shed. Yet 3y
BookBabe 😊 I get it. I‘ll check out the YouTube. I suppose anything can be romanticized… reading about broke artists in Paris made poverty sound romantic and wonderful (I found out otherwise when I tried it lol) 3y
mobill76 "You can be so heavenly minded that you are of no earthly use." 2y