Winter Message Series: Crafting A Rule Of Life

Join us for worship in the new year, as we wrestle with the truth that author Annie Dillard captured in this way, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” There are plenty of forces at work in our lives and world that seek to shape our habits for their benefit and not our own. As author Justin Whitmel Earley names, we are unknowingly assimilated into the rule of life of our broader culture that forms us all in the anxiety, depression, consumerism, injustice and vanity that are so typical in our times. Over this seven week series we will each be invited to cultivate a rule of life, a set of habits we can commit to in order to grow in our love of God and neighbor. We will pay attention to how we spend our hours and days, so that we might spend our lives living out the love in which we believe.
 
Each week we will spend time reflecting upon what scripture and the life of Jesus has to say to us as we examine different aspects of our lives. Using Earley’s book The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose in an Age of Distraction as a guide and turning to the wisdom of ancient monastics as well, we will as Earley puts it, “seek to craft a rule of life for our time, that unites our head and our habits, growing us into the lovers of God and neighbor we were created to be.”