Journaling

Consider how irregular my blogging is, and you will have some idea of how unsuccesful most of my attempts at daily journalling have been.

My life is highly resistant to attempts to impose routine upon it, but it has been known to happen – in restricted ways, and for limited times – in the past, but it's not something that comes easily. But almost nothing of any value is achieved without difficulty. Walking 900km in a foreign country will not be achieved without difficulty. So, if I can hike, on average 30km a day for 30 days, perhaps then I can also journal about those travels for 30 minutes at the end of each day.

Though a generalisation, my theory is that a person's life is either easy for them to write about, or worth writing about. I'd much rather have the former problem than the latter!

Reading list

On top of reading that I'm doing for my other, current, subjects (Lifelong learning for leadership and Mission, discipleship and leadership in cultures of change), I'm also hoping to read or re-read about a dozen books on missional spirituality, the camino or Taizé before I go. So, here's the list so far:

• Arthur Poel Boers (2007) The way is made by walking: a pilgrimage along the camino de Santiago
• Kenneth Collins (2000) Exploring Christian spirituality: an ecumenical reader
• Charles Foster (2010) The sacred journey
• Christian George (2006) Sacred travels: recovering the ancient art of pilgrimage
• Anthony Gittens (2001) Bread for the journey: the mission of transformation and the transformation of mission
• Ignatius of Loyola (1914) The spiritual exercises
• Frere Roger (2006) Essential writings
• John Brian Santos (2008) A community called Taizé: a story of prayer, worship and reconciliation
• Evelyn Underhill (2003) Essential writings
• Tom Wright (1999) The way of the Lord

As you can see, there's room for a couple more. So, if you've got a suggestion please let me know in the comments.