I just finished teaching a class on the Other Disciplines at church. For several weeks I lead the group in thinking about those things that have been a long part of the faith journey for people down through the centuries. We started with the Rule of Benedict and worked through a number of things that people don't incorporate into their lives any more. Things like simplicity, discernment, solitude, fasting, holding ones tongue, and other things. It wasn't that most of these actions or disciplines are unknown they just aren't practiced.
For me these things are necessary in my life if I'm not going to lose my religion. It is things like this that help me to stay on the path while of faith while everything else is weighing on me and pulling me away from God. It is through these things that I keep working toward faith even when I'm not sure what my faith is.
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