Resource for chaplains & pastoral care workers
A Rule of Life After the Barracks
Commitments specific enough to be kept, and specific enough to notice when they are broken. Write them in your own words, with one practical step for each.
The barracks taught you things. But it does not get to keep you.
1.Commitment one, in my own words:
2.What it looks like in practice this month:
3.Commitment two, in my own words:
4.What it looks like in practice this month:
5.Commitment three, in my own words:
6.What it looks like in practice this month:
7.One practice that supports these (supervision, stillness, a colleague, a written agreement):
8.One person who may hold me to them:
9.One warning sign that I am drifting — the sentence I will hear myself say:
10.Review date:

