pat loughery

Scotland and Ireland really messed me up. I mean that in a good way, but it’s completely true.
My trip in early August to Scotland and Northern Ireland for a Bakke class, Following the Celtic Trail, was the kind of thing that, at the time, was great; but I’m having a really hard time processing.

It’s been hard enough that I basically haven’t made any progress synthesizing it and writing a paper for my class, and had to file for an extension. On one hand, I feel bad about that; on the other hand, I really don’t want to rush this one.

There’s some major things that came out of that trip for me that I hope to be able to process through.  Frankly, I’m not gonna explain these, and mostly I’m writing them down to get my brain churching a bit more:

– Monastic vs. churchy

– Organic life

– Politics and conflict

– the missional monastic movements

– dispersed community

– the voyage of the coracle

-  living amongst the people

– fixed hour prayer

– prayer in the various spiritual traditions

– suburban and monastic

Please pray for focus, wisdom, and that the Lord leads my coracle.