The following is a statement of my life Intention which I wrote to go along with the statement of What I Believe, my Rule of Life, and the General Rule of my Order:
In the “key” of Franciscan spirituality and its intellectual tradition,
I want to continually [re]turn to become my true self
(the self known to and created and loved by the divine One)
by seeking to contemplate the divine One in createdness
· (pursuing an affective life and intellectual conversion)
which entails regular
• prayer, • study, and • meditative speculatio
while loving, exploring and sharing myself
· (autonomously, creatively and helpfully)
· in convivial, personalist and caring communities
• being loved and loving others,
• practicing minimalism and parrhesia, and
• engaging in writing and physical work
and becoming close to nature —
· natural things: their haecceity and collective integrity
· (aware of nature as reality and, in harmony with her,
· reflecting her as part of her) —
for which I would like to:
• keep in good physical condition,
• spend time outdoors,
• and live in as natural a manner in as natural a setting as I can
· while not only respecting and caring for nature
· but enhancing her well-being,
until “Sister Bodily Death” returns me to
the Beloved One, the Creatrix who wombed and wooed me.
