This past Sunday at my Education for Ministry class, my material was on monasticism and mystery, topics which are at the heart of who I am. I brought along a small, dog-eared book to share that I have used since early 2000 called “Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living” by John McQuiston II.
I have written about this book before, but I’ve gotten lax and haven’t been using it the past few years. Now it's front and center again in my own daily practice. Each time I actually do begin again in this book, I write the date inside and what inspired me to begin again.
McQuiston, a busy attorney looking for balance in his daily life, found the key in the Rule of Saint Benedict. He wrote it for people in every day life and I can’t begin to recommend this book enough. It fits in my purse and I originally bought it while on retreat at Weston Monastery in Vermont. If you check the link, you’ll get PDFs of some of the pages in the book. I've given this book as a gift many times, but no one seems to cherish it the way I do.
Googling McQuiston, I found a site I haven’t been aware of before: Explore Spirituality, and I quickly bookmarked it.
Ultimately I clicked a link called What’s Your spiritual type?, as if I hadn't known for most of my adult life. If you click the link, you can take a test there that I found actually quite accurate as to my type: Seeker.
If you feel inclined, take the test and let me know which spiritual type you are. Yeah, yeah. I know. Hardly science, but it was a good endeavor on a night when I’m so tired I just want to get into bed and delve back into Jeffrey Eugenides’ “Middlesex.” A little playing on the computer is sometimes a good way to wind down. I recently finished Eugenides current best seller, “The Marriage Plot,” and now I want to read everything he has written.
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