A short excerpt:
Either he was getting to court late because he had to drop off his daughter at preschool, or he was leaving her in his law office during afternoon meetings with clients, or he was staying up for hours after reading her bedtime stories to prepare the next day’s litigation.
So Mr. Fleming arranged for his parents to care for his daughter for a couple of days and he made an announcement: he was going to spend 48 hours, as much time as he could spare, in a monastery. “It scared a lot of people,” Mr. Fleming recently recalled. “Friends of mine said, ‘Are you going to be a monk? That’s going in pretty deep.’ ”
While he did not, in fact, become a monk, he did begin a personal tradition of annual visits to the monastery run by the Episcopal brothers of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist. And if there was an unlikely element to a high-powered lawyer seeking the contemplative climate of a monastery, then there was an equally improbable aspect to this particular monastery./
Read the whole article here.
Learn more about SSJE here. (I have been on retreat there and I do recommend it!)
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