Discerning Our Attitude Toward God The right attitude toward God is essential to one’s progress on the Spiritual Journey. Father Thomas...

This is the preface for the book I am currently writing. For more information see https://www.turningaround.net/richard-s-book. Photo of...

Photo from bigstockphoto.com What is your prayer life like today? In what specific ways do you feel called to deepen your prayer life?...

Photo by Winnie Southworth Have I had an experience of awe and wonder? Describe that experience in detail. What was my reaction? What...

NASA Image of the Faintest Galaxy from the Early Universe Is there a God? What is God for me? Who is God for me? How do I know? Am I open...

I wrote this post in July of 1980. I still find it relevant and inspiring. My wife Winnie watching the fish in her backyard pond Photo...

Photo by Winnie Southworth Mark is our son. He was born in 1970 and the original reflection was written around 1983 when he was thirteen...

Photo by Mark Southworth It has been almost exactly two months since my last blog post, and I feel bad about that. Life has been kind of...

This is a video taken from a class I taught at Walnut Grove Baptist Church in Mechanicsville, Virginia a while back. It lays out what...

The Rule of Saint Benedict: Prologue, Verses 19-22 Our Sacred Inner Being Calling Us Photo by Winnie Southworth What can be sweeter to...

The Rule of Saint Benedict: Prologue, Verses 14-18 I Am The One! Image by Irene Furr Henshaw And the Lord, seeking his own workman in the...

The Rule of Saint Benedict: Prologue, Verses 8-13 Let Us Then At Last Arise Photo by Winnie Southworth Let us then at last arise, since...

The Rule of Saint Benedict: Prologue, Verses 4-7 Beg of Him With Most Earnest Prayer Photo by Winnie Southworth In the first place,...

The Rule of Saint Benedict: Prologue, verses 1-3 Listening Obedience Photo by Irene Furr Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master,...

Introduction Photo by Winnie Southworth The Rule of Saint Benedict has played an important role in my spiritual journey. It has touched...

Photo by Winnie Southworth Most evenings just before I start getting ready for bed I sit down at my computer, open my journal, and type...

Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally I just added this book to the recommendations page: This book changed my whole approach to...

Very few monks today take a vow of silence, but they do practice a discipline referred to as restraint of speech.  In many monasteries...

I have just created a new page called Recommendations. At present it contains information about two books that have been important to my...

I have previously posted five different awakening experiences. Each of the were critical turning points on my spiritual journey. As I thou