::: monastic future :::

I find the post linked below to be very interesting. It will be fun to see where this community journeys in the future with the vision they have.

The overall plan is the following: To buy land, between 30 and 100 acres, not more than 20 minutes from Lexington, on which to live, not only me and my family (who would be buying the land to be clear), but with others as well, in an intentional rural monastic community. The word "monastic" might mean something to some of you and nothing to others - depends on your familiarity I guess. Some of the pictures you have will match what we're going to do and some will not. This life we will have will be a rural, contemplative life but not a separated life. I mean that we intend to live fairly close to the town we've lived in for the last 14 years and to interact with it on a regular basis. We want this "branch" of Vine & Branches Christian Community to be a primarily quiet and contemplative one with a real, living connection to the rest of the Community in Lexington.

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