For the next few days...at Christ in the Desert...

...and I will not be able to check the blog.  BUT YOU CAN!

I am sitting, having a late breakfast/early lunch at Santa Fe Baking Company, an eclectic and fairly inexpensive eatery Adam and I found last year when we passed through this way on our road trip.  I am sitting at the window, it is a beautiful morning, there is great art on the walls, and I'm relaxed.  Glory.  Santa Fe is a sweet town.

Beginning this afternoon, until early morning on Saturday, I will be spending time at Christ in the Desert, a monastery just outside of Abiquiu, NM.  Adam and I stayed there for a few nights last year, and vowed that we would return.  Our summers are pretty different (check out his link -- he is a busy guy), so the opportunity arose for me to come, and I hesitated for a minute, but could not pass it up.  Hopefully he and I will be able to head there again.

Theirs is an active worshiping and working community of men and women, and like Saint Benedict, they graciously welcome everyone as if they were Christ himself. 

Please pray for me as I worship and work and eat with them for the  next few days.  Specifically, please pray for the ability to rest and "be" there.  Also, for some sense of revelation and guidance regarding the ministry I will be serving with this summer.  I hope to read the rest of Buechner's Sacred Journey, as well as a good portion of Scripture.

Thanks, friends.  Know that I will be think of and praying for you as well.  I am grateful for you.

Stay tuned for pictures and a post on Saturday morning!

Much Love,
Josh

Comments

[Joi]

Great to read that you are having such a fun adventure. Hope you have (had) a meaningful and restful time at the monestary. I will defineatly say a prayer or two for you:)

All because of Jesus,

Joi

[Mom]

Hi, Josh! Glad you got there without any furthur side trips (aka Nebraska)!! Praying your time at Christ in the Desert will bring you renewal and greater insight ...
Love you! Mom

[Hannah]

Joshy,
It is so great to read your thoughts as you travel - I hope the monastery is a peaceful and clarifying time. I am off to Jersey on Friday morning at 6AM - yeah, I am leaving my apartment at, like, 4:30 - ugg. I get in late on Monday night - so travel safely for the rest of your trip and I will see you sometime early next week! Be praying, Hanny

[Elisabeth]

Uncle Josh - I'd like a necklace please. Please Uncle Josh? I'm at Geema and Geempa's and I'm going to have a sleepover here. I'm playing ball. I love you - hurry home. Love, Elisabeth

[Christina]

Wow, sounds like a wonderful opportunity for a time of worship and rest. Had you read Buechner's Sacred Journey before? We had to read it as RAs my senior year and journal about it. I loved it. Hope your time is blessed. Sustained by Him, Christina

[Susie]

I hope your time with Jesus was beautiful

[mrsfine]

Still thinking of you each day....and know that you will have continued success in all that you do.

Perhaps you should find a publisher for your travel essays....

All is well with the fines. Back to back homers at the game last night...fun, but cold.

Love,
mfk