Exercising “Indifference”
I've been writing the last couple of weeks about the discipline of listening. I must again admit that I'm a novice at this discipline.
This week I've been trying to put into practice the spiritual discipline of “Indifference.” “Indifference” doesn't mean anything like “I don't care” or “It doesn't make any difference to me,” but has more to do with the idea of holding things lightly. As Ruth Haley Barton puts it,