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megfunk.com will phase out off the web on October 15th, 2011


Several factors point to this decision:

1. Lantern is going to specialize in books and phase out their web business.

2. Meg is writing a new book: Discernment Matters and needs more time, space and silence from the electric noise.

3. A new server would cost more and I'm not sure I need it to continue the good work of the books.

4. I will be available by email: megfunk@earthlink.net

5. Will phase out my gmail account on October 15th, too.

6. We've had some issues with viruses and hacking. I feel that less is more, for now. The books will be available and I'll have an email account with Earthlink.

Some have asked if it will be archived anywhere. No, not at this time. Feel free to copy any or all you would like to have for reference.

It's a lot! 600+ entries. I'm sorting through them now. We are all learning together what is beneficial about these new ways of communication.

I feel that my best writing can be found in the books.

Thank you for your support!

Sister Meg

Discernment Matters:
(Draft one) For those called to live from the heart

Forward:
Kallistos Ware

Preface:
Situating this book #5 in the Matter Series

Introduction:
Executive Summary of the whole book. Our heart’s desire is God. This seeking God can be a journey from anxiety and agitation to confidence and calmness.

The monastic tradition teaches that the path is through renunciation rather than grasping. The path has structure and has specific training that is available to sincere practitioners.

Ultimately on our side it is training of the heart into the experience God. We call this prayer.

I am going to renounce
My “if onlys”
On this 10th anniversary of 9/11.

There are three for me,
You probably have your own regrets:

“If only”
Dan Rather would have
Taken Saddam Husain “out”
On the CBS Evening News.

Meg: as of September 1, 2011 the film Of God and Men is now available. This is the best preparation for any dialogue on the topic of 9/11.
The seven Cistercian Monks who died gave us this legacy:
1) We are to love everyone and have no enemies.
2) Jesus is our guide.
3) Do the little things or ordinary life...hospitality, listening, being at prayer and kind to one another.
4) Expect no return. God alone provides the grace.

Numerous books, articles, television
documentaries and now a film
have been made on the subject, but the mystery of the assassination of seven French Trappist monks in Algeria 14 years ago has never been fully elucidated.
Meg: this is from The Tablet. Permission Granted from: http://thetablet.co.uk
"Mystery of the martyred monks"
Ignatius Kusiak

The Publisher
The Tablet Publishing Company Ltd.
Registered in England No. 311249
Registered
Office:
1, King St. Cloisters
Clifton Walk

London W6 0GY

Great Britain UK


The French movie, Des hommes et des dieux,
directed by self-styled agnostic Xavier
Beauvois, winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes
this year and released in Britain as Of Gods
and Men yesterday, simply relates the known
facts without expressing a political opinion.

It was an immediate success, with one and a
half million people seeing the film in the first
three weeks after its release in France in
September. Permalink

Writing a Daily Journal

Was asked recently about the practice of a daily journal. Is it healthy or selfing?

We have been through a period of 50 years discovering the self and being excited about this inner dialogue.

The healthy part is to strengthen the inner life and to check into our own thoughts, feelings, passions, inclinations, desires and emotional content.