The Practice of the Week Week 10
Write Your Rule of Life
A small, durable set of practices to carry the rest of the way.
One simple thing. Keep it small, keep it doable, and do it with them first.
Build a Rule of Life — your ‘operating system.’ Keep it small enough that you’ll actually keep it. Pick one daily practice (the Examen, two minutes of silence, one Beatitude, a breath prayer), one weekly practice (a mini-Sabbath, a fast, one real conversation, an act of service), and one way to stay in community (a brother, this group, a mentor). Write it down. Then start living it this week — and mark the end of these ten weeks together with a real celebration.
Live your Rule, starting now. When you miss a day, just begin again the next — that’s the practice, not the failure.
Name where you are with God right now, honestly.
Choose ONE daily practice you’ll actually keep.
Choose ONE weekly practice.
Choose ONE way to stay in community — name the person.
Begin this week. Then celebrate the journey together.
You are salt; you are light. Go and become, by grace, what God already is by nature — and do not hide it.