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?...

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...

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...

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

I have been struggling and feeling driven, as I go from one thing on my todo list to another. I have snapped at my wife and son when I...

I wrote this prose poem, I'm guessing in about 1988, give or take a year or two. I would have been about forty-five, and that would have...

Early this morning I had a rather long and vivid dream and then woke up at about 4:00am.  Neither the dream or the waking up seemed in...

There are several pictures on the walls in my bedroom.  I love these images.  They speak to me.  When I get up in the morning and when I...

Realized last night that I tend to be driven all day.  Need to work on that. This is really important.  It needs to become my current...

From my journal for 8/19/20 Realized last night that sometimes I tend to be driven all day.  Need to work on that. This is really...

From my Journal on 6/13/2020 It seems that the Awakening experience in early March began a process of transformation for me.  I have no...

In my morning time apart I have been reading from Marcus J. Borg. “Reading the Bible Again For the First Time.” Apple Books....

From my Journal on May 8, 2020. Things they are a changing!  Not sure how to put it into words.  It all seems to have started with my...

A couple of Mondays ago (March 2020) I sat down to do my morning time.  During the meditation something “came” to me”.  For a half hour I...