Kick off your shoes

I'm sitting here doing my meditation, my shoes off, my coffee right at my side, sitting in a comfortable chair and cooled by air conditioning. And I'm thinking, "Wow, this is life." Then I remember that St. Catherine of Sienna said, "All the way to heaven IS heaven." And I think some more about how we make our lives-full of simplicity or full of rules.

I, for one, don't like rules. I guess that's a by-product of so many years living in a monastery. Teach me the spirit of the thing, and let me fly. Rules-well, rules are made to be broken. Because if you don't break the rules, then you are-what? Bound. Right?

I think we make rules mostly to control others. If you want something to go smoothly without any mistakes, what do you do? You draw up a schedule, to limit what others do! Or you put together a bunch of "dos" which imply all the "don't dos".

Okay. I know this is too simplistic. It's hot here and I love my bare feet and I think Jesus broke rules in the Gospels to tell us-its not about the rules. It's about the spirit.

So, go forth and live in the spirit.