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Abbey

I want to found a missional, multigenerational, covenantal, family abbey.

Abbey
Place of refuge, quiet, work, prayer:
Community Life (Life with one another.)


Missional
We have a shared hope of the Best;
we hold out the words of life to the world that is dying.
We honor the image of God in every human, and enjoy the creation of God in everything--we remember the Incarnation.
We embrace sorrow and suffering as crosses--they remind us of the Passion of the Cross.
We not only permit parting but encourage multiplication--we return to "unless a seed falls to the ground and dies, it will bear no fruit." We pass through death to find Resurrection.
We edify one another, in one accord with God's Holy Spirit, forming His Church, gathering in Jesus' Name.


Covenantal
3 vows:

Obedience with Charity; Charity in Authority (Love)
A Few Disciplines Among Many-Secret Giving, Swift Compliance, Bearing With One Another

Faith and Faithfulness (Faith)
A Few Disciplines Among Many-Chastity, Prayer, Recalling the Truth of One Another

Simplicity and Purity (Hope)
A Few Disciplines Among Many-Keeping Short Accounts, Giving Time, Believing the Best of One Another


Family
We want households, pairing, the issue of children, the increase of man's promised dominion over the earth; we want travel, hospitality, help, adoption; we want art, craft, intellect, passion, expression; all redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. We desire nature in all its fullness to be penetrated and enfolded by supernature in all its emptiness.

4 comments:

Hypatia's Ghost said...

Have I told you how just amazingly beautiful I think your inner light is, when it glows? This is a fairly glow-ey post. You are beautiful.

Will said...

Yay friends!

Want to drink the kookaid I drink? Care to farm with me? I figure start with tomatoes, and grow from there, but maybe you'd prefer herbs.

Hypatia's Ghost said...

My kool-aid's a different flavor of yours, so I suppose we'll have to dig our own individual wells. Basil's a good place to start, but tomatoes are hardy and excellent. I'd like to keep bees.

Will said...

Sarah Scott has a dream at least on the same shooting range.

http://dirtylittleaphid.com/blog/2008/07/18/hodge-podge-resort/