OK, so it’s still on my nightstand, but I finished it about a week ago. I think it will stay on the nightstand a good long while.
I bought this at a monastery bookstore in mid-June, never having heard of the 2005 BBC TV series The Monastery or, for that matter, of Worth Abbey. This slim book spoke to my soul, offering simple ways to create sanctuary, something most of us crave whether we know it or not. Busyness can and does happen anywhere. In this book, Jamison offers ways we can create sanctuary–a safe place–without leaving the world. The steps can be challenging, inside or outside a monastery. But the inner peace found when we make the seemingly hard decisions is worth the sacrifice.
I’ve found myself chewing over and over again on this Thomas Merton quote that Jamison offers: “In order to become myself I must cease to be what I always thought I wanted to be.”
What’s on your nightstand?
