tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15398304.post2819559335727476302..comments2024-03-26T17:44:29.168+00:00Comments on The Mercy Blog: Fish on dry land…Mike Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06732248182662167951noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15398304.post-9981024701621788262011-03-14T10:26:23.637+00:002011-03-14T10:26:23.637+00:00Bless him. Loved that story. I shall think of hi...Bless him. Loved that story. I shall think of him when I sleep under my doona (thought I'm pretty sure it's not eiderdown :)Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15398304.post-26710444769538925652011-03-14T10:03:54.606+00:002011-03-14T10:03:54.606+00:00Thank you, Sue - there are many of these stories, ...Thank you, Sue - there are many of these stories, Christian and Buddhist (and who knows, other faiths as well?), about contemplative people who were made bishops, abbesses, and things like that against their will, and, at the first opportunity, beetled off back to the contemplative life. St Cuthbert would be a fine example! I've always loved the account of his return to the Farne Islands, where he had enacted the first bird protection laws in history! (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert_of_Lindisfarne#Hermit.27s_life" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>)<br /><br />Gaye, thank you for your prayers. It's very good indeed to meet you - I have subscribed to your blog, and I can't wait to see the rest of those Stations of the Cross!Mike Farleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732248182662167951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15398304.post-24406587997334078412011-03-14T03:38:47.027+00:002011-03-14T03:38:47.027+00:00You shall have them with great pleasureYou shall have them with great pleasureGayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05382575146394739428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15398304.post-31772627620137010812011-03-13T23:28:43.545+00:002011-03-13T23:28:43.545+00:00Oh, contemplatives are some of my favourite people...Oh, contemplatives are some of my favourite people of all, Mike. <br /><br />A friend of mine who is a Buddhist was telling the other day about a biography she was reading of a Buddhist abbot heading up a monastery, who was feeling so encumbered by everything involved in the running of the monastery when all he wanted to do was retreat and meditate. His "men of the world" were men of the monastery, even! <br /><br />And so he did what he needed to do, following his own rhythms - he ran away. Managed to hide out for several years until they found him again one day and dragged him back to the monastery :)Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.com