Blog — Mythic Monastery

A Wilderness, a Place, a Gateway

Why have you brought this trouble on us? The Lord will bring trouble on you today.—Joshua 7:25

Patricia ButlerMarch 23, 2024In the WildernessComment

A Spiritual Geography

Jehovah-Maqom is His Name—The Place

In the WildernessPatricia ButlerFebruary 23, 2024In the WildernessComment

Word of the Year

What is this place and how do we find it?

Patricia ButlerJanuary 26, 2024Word of the Year, In the WildernessComment

Mastering the Wind

I didn't command that wind and I couldn't make it give back what it had taken away. But it was my wind, and I had to sail it until it led me at last to a sheltered cove.”—Richard Bode

Patricia ButlerNovember 14, 2023Richard Bode, CainComment

Breaking News

“Shalom,” she said, after her release from her captivity.

Patricia ButlerOctober 25, 2023Comment

Longings & Babette’s Feast—Part 7: The Pursuit of Longings

Patricia ButlerSeptember 30, 2023Babette's Feast, LongingsComment

Longings & Babette’s Feast: Part 6

Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope. . .

LongingsPatricia ButlerJuly 26, 2023Longings, Babette's FeastComment

Longings and Babette’s Feast: Part 5

When a Longing is Fulfilled, When a Longing isn’t Fulfilled

Patricia ButlerJune 17, 2023Babette's Feast, LongingsComment

Longings—Part 4

Hope deferred makes the heart sick (Proverb 13:12).

Patricia ButlerMay 26, 2023Comment

Longings—Part 3: An Unexpected Text

An Unexpected Text

Farewell Tour, CollisionPatricia ButlerApril 29, 2023LongingsComment

Longings & Babette's Feast—Part 2

“Babette’s cry was mine—an artist’s cry from the heart, ‘Give me a chance to do my best.’”

Patricia ButlerFebruary 25, 2023Longings, Babette's FeastComment

Longings & Babette's Feast

“Artistic, sensual and sacred passions unite in Babette’s Feast. ..Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for enjoying too much earthly pleasure?”—liner notes on DVD jacket.

Patricia ButlerJanuary 27, 2023Babette's Feast, LongingsComment

A Game-Changing Question

A Game-Changing Question: Interview with Dr. Grant Mullen

Patricia ButlerSeptember 21, 2022#herosjourneyintohealing, #forgiveness, healingComment

Gloria

Every other Wednesday, my brother's housekeeper and her team come to corral the chaos. I've met Gloria and have known her for several years, and greet her with my best, “Hola!” whenever our paths cross.

Patricia ButlerAugust 2, 2022Comment

Traveling with Brother Lawrence: Part II

He looked about as dejected as a soul could look.

“Having a bad day?” I asked him on the elevator. The question took him off-guard. He looked up, down, sideways, confounded—

Patricia ButlerJune 16, 2022Brother Lawrence Comments

Traveling with Brother Lawrence

You know you’ll be challenged in a day that includes travel and a book launch you weren’t expecting. Except you were expecting the launch in a general way, just not that particular day, and while you were packing the car for a two-month trip.

Road ScholarPatricia ButlerJune 16, 2022Brother Lawrence Comment