Each day in life is training; Training for myself; Though failure is possible; Living each moment; Equal to anything; Ready for everything; I am alive - I am this moment. My future is here and now. For if I cannot endure today, when and where will I?
Friday, December 17, 2010
Which is the best piece on the chessboard?
So there is a bishop from Benin who is on retreat here at the monastery. He is an awesome guy. He speaks Italian fluently along with French, English and multiple Africana dialects. He has visited Europe, living in Italy for 11 years, and North America. But the coolest thing, is that he is down to earth. I think he actually enjoys talking to Colin and I more than the monks because we are interested (not to say that the monks aren’t), but we are people. He works with me in the garden hauling water; he cleaned a bathroom and swept half the monastery the other day. And after all of the labor his real work starts. He is writing a book on the self-reliance of African churches in building new churches and diocese using the Kings and political systems of the Old Testament as his basis. And the look on the monks’ faces when he tells them about all of the work he has done, ooh man. To them this guy isn’t supposed to lift a finger, but you can’t hold a guy back when he is determined. And he is determined to do work and relieve his stress of writing the book before he continues his writing, which is by hand.
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