Laying a new foundation

Abba Moses asked Abba Silvanus,

"Can a man lay a new foundation every day?"

The old man said,

"If he works hard, he can lay a new foundation at every moment."

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From the wisdom of the Desert Fathers

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Zero conflict

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ABC Wednesday meme has come full circle to the letter Z.
I immediately thought to write about Zion or Zionism, of course. However, today certain other things came together to convince me to attempt something about . . . let's call it . . . zero conflict.
First, the July 14 entry in "Word from the Desert, Meditations on the Orthodox Life from the Early Church Fathers, Ascetics, Saints and Righteous," is this:
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Two old men had lived together...
…in the desert for many years and had never quarreled. The first said to the other, “Let us also have a fight like other men do.” The other replied, “I do not know how to fight.” The first said to him, “Look, I will put a brick between us, and I will say it is mine, and you say, `No, it is mine,’ and so the fight will begin.” So they put a brick between them and the first said, “This brick is mine,” and the other said, “No, it is mine,” and the first responded, “If it is yours, take it and go” – so they gave it up without being able to find an occasion for an argument.
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Don't you love the simple humility of the Desert Fathers (and Mothers)! ?
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Beginning in the third century C.E. (=A.D.), these Christians fled to the deserts of Egypt and of the Holy Land to live as hermits.
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In his post of July 13, "Walking with the Desert Fathers," an American rabbi on sabbatical in Israel shows and tells about his hike into hermit-land in Wadi Kelt and reflects on our own Jewish need for some desert solitude from time to time.
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Do we not all seek that blessed but elusive state of zero conflict?
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