reading Abbot Christopher Jamison's book 'Finding Happiness' and came across a word unfamiliar to me - acedia ; which is spiritual carelessness.
Our society on the whole is too busy to keep spiritual disciplines we don't have the time and if we did what good would it do us?
Quite a challenge for one living in such an age!
The Abbot goes on to say that prayer is essential - to come back to the present moment.
He describes monastic prayer as ' carving out a sacred time and space dedicated in rejoicing in God's goodness and repenting of the thoughts that impede that goodness in my life...so each of us need a sacred time and space that becomes as integral to life as brushing our teeth.'
