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PNew's avatar

Glad I read to the end. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing your journey.

Now about the coffee- a monastery should have a milk cow. Unless it’s soul…. Ok. Don’t need to go there, but really- you run the fields, right? Have a cow.

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Christopher Jolma's avatar

I think getting a cow is in the five-year plan. In the meantime, we milk almonds during the appropriate seasons.

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Tony's avatar

You should write a book or memoir, it would be incredible, use the material you already have

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Christopher Jolma's avatar

Thank you. I keep hearing that. I keep coming up with excuses, but I THINK I’m starting to get to the bottom of the bag of them.

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Fr. Scott Bailey, C.Ss.R.'s avatar

Sometimes I feel like Jesus is giving me a slap upside the head while saying, “Dude! I’m in charge here, not you!”

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Christopher Jolma's avatar

Do you ever feel like you’re slapping yourself upside the head and Jesus is just standing there pinching the bridge of his nose?

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Fr. Scott Bailey, C.Ss.R.'s avatar

Yup. I think he looks at me and just shakes his head.

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