How to practice living in wonder
Our Lives in Christ:
1. 1. Regularly attend a traditional Christian church and be active in the lives of your fellow parishioners.
2. Observe morning and evening prayers
3. Follow the Christian calendar.
4. Read your Bible
5. Read the lives of the Saints
6. Keep the fasts and give alms
7. Ask your Saint and Guardian Angel to pray for you
8. Observe the feasts of the Church with special family traditions
Home Life:
9. Eat most of your meals at home, together with the family.
10. Cook meals from scratch using traditional ingredients.
11. Bake bread, brew mead, can jam, dry herbs
12. Plant a garden, get some hens
13. Maintain an emergency supply of food and other needful items
14. Set up bird feeders
15. Get a dog
16. Dress modestly
17. Avoid secular entertainment, especially pop music
Intellectual life:
18. Read old books
19. Don't play video games.
20. Look into your heritage.
21. Read Tolkien
General well-being:
22. Walk to the store
23. Avoid big box stores and shop at small mom and pop stores it possible
24. As much as possible, avoid online shopping, esp. Amazon
25. Take up a useful hobby that produces useful things
26. Don't use foul language!!!
27. Limit screen time as much as possible
28. Go for hikes in the woods
29. Learn to identify plants, birds and other animals, constellations, trees
30. If you go for a walk, listen to the ambient sound and not music or podcasts
31. Get to know your neighbors. Which ones are allies in the Battle and which ones are problematic? Love all them.
32. Women: Take up knitting, crochet, sewing, embroidery, etc.
33. Men: Take up woodworking, fishing, hunting, etc
34. Men, be manly
35. Women, be womanly