A New Rule of Life

I have some daily spiritual practices.  I sit and meditate every morning.  I do spiritual reading. Most days I also walk, often without my iPod now, paying attention to the divine expression of the world around me.  I am exploring with adding more to personal daily and weekly practice.  I do not end the day regularly.  Sometimes, I do not make sure I get enough sleep. Often, I let the day zip by me without stopping during the course of my business, my ministry, my meetings, my work, my writing, to see just what is going on; to remember that God is.

I am a heretic by formal affiliation, being a Unitarian Universalist, and have always been one ready to break rules in the name of justice and so on, but here I am now realizing I just may need some new rules. Something else may fit. What? I don't know.  I thought fasting was a Gandhian exercise that had nothing for me, but when I stopped to think about it, I realized that I'd joined weight watchers.

Oh, and God is okay with me. God was cool with Channing and Ballou and James Luther Adams and also with me.  I don't talk a lot about that here in a UU church in Texas and I am certain my idea of God is very different from the prevailing concept of deity I will encounter should I strike up a conversation at the gym tomorrow, but there it is, or there She is or He is.

I've started a course or program in spiritual direction. Eventually, I can see myself being a spiritual director. First, comes going through my own soul on pilgrimage.  A lot miles will be done in silence and in stillness, thus the title of the new blog: Still Pilgrimage.  Yes, it's an obvious play on words. I'm still on pilgrimage and my own journey will involve a lot of being quiet and being, well, still.  Journaling with actual pen and paper will become a part of my life again, but blogging has become a spiritual exercise for me as well.  I may not write on the blog what I write in the journal, but it will be another way to reflect on the journey, which at times may get unsettled too, I'm sure.