It feels like summer is happening in france this week. Its hot and sunny. Time for shorts, but thats not very monastic, so I’ll stick to trowsers.
I now have a taize haircut, which involved having all my hair shaved off, (not really, just a number 5) it actually looks quite good.
Thankyou to everyone who has sent/emailed/txted/facebooked birthday greetings, I had a great day!
I’ve been thinking a lot about silence these last weeks. Its a fairly big part of life here, we eat some of our meals in silence, we have 7-10 minutes of silence in prayers three times a day. I always thought that the point of silence was to make room to think about other things or even to listen to God. But I think I’ve realised there is something else, that sometimes the most important thing is to be quite on the inside, not so much to listen to God, but just to take part in the simple waiting.
I think this inner quiteness is essential to be able to listern to people, trust people, love people for who they are. It allows us to make the world not so much about ourselfs, but about others.
Its hard but good to be able to practice.
Lots of love.
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Great reflection. I need to practice more silence. But my problem currently is that I’m waaaaay too into listening to as much music as possible… hmmm.
Digging on the haircut too. Please to be posting pics?
(You’re turning into me perhaps? – I currently do a number 3…)
Haha, I remember the ‘that’s not very monastic’ comments.
hehe, it takes me back. You’ve got the haircut, soon you’ll be wearing socks and sandals. 
Silence is something to be treasured eh! I still seek it, and long for it when I don’t find time for it.
love you!