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Always’ scrape your pipe with a pipe tool that you can buy from your local Tobacconist. But’ not so much that you damage your pipe. Never’ knock your pipe it could cause the stem to fit loose damaging your pipe. If’ your pipe developers a bitter taste use pipe sweetener also can usually’ be bought from your local Tobacconist. These are suggestions for the beginner.don’t be concerned about wether it’s fashionable or that it seems that Only’a a dedicated few are smokeing pipes.history has a way of repeating its self and even if pipe smokeing isn’t fashionable what’s wrong with being unique. I am 42 yrs old I’ve smoked a pipe since I was 18 yrs old my Father bought me a Sherlock Holmes pipe.I’ve always’ been a fan.The Lord bless you.
I’m a lady, catechist, and leisure smoker of fine tobacco
– I relate to this so well – keep on keeping on!
I hate to tell you this, but those three monks were Anglicans. https://www.flickr.com/photos/41273109@N02/6609635751
Eu coloco maconha no meu caximbo, e fica da hora, muito bom, misturem com fumo de capuccino
I’ve smoked a pipe for forty nine years now, and I cannot remember a time when as the smoke rose it did not draw in contemplation. In its dissipation one glimpses his mortality, and in its rising his hopeful destination….heaven.
Wonderful article!
I especially appreciate the comment that each person should find that activity that brings them to close communion with God and pursue it. The details of what that activity is should be between the person and God.
To me that aligns perfectly with Scripture’s take on giving… that each should purpose in their own heart the details (of “who” and “how much”).
I will say that in my case the main activity that brings me close to God is making music — but the occasional bowlful of McClelland’s 3 Oaks Syrian works, too. 🙂
Hi, Ben, good post. As a pipe smoker myself, I vigorously concur with the sublime sentiment expressed so well in your post. Indeed, a bowlful of fine tobacco alters the very vibration of existence, slows it down in some indefinable way.
Carry on, lad!
Like great G.K. Chesterton said, “In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.” Indeed, they can, and they must. It is ironic that Christians who think all drinking is drunkenness and all smoking is vice are those who think Jesus suffered and died so that we do not have to. It is no surprise that Christians who believe in redemptive suffering have a happy and holy indifference to alcohol and tobacco. As Chesterton said, “Probably the worst way to drink is to drink medicinally. Certainly the safest way to drink is to drink carelessly; that is, without caring much for anything, and especially not caring for the drink.” For it is equally the puritan and the pagan who think too much about drinking and smoking; most likely because they forget Christ’s first public miracle was the turning water into wine, and His perpetual memorial is the turning of wine into His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. The Catholic – whether he is a formal member of the Catholic Church or not – is the kind of Christian who accepts the pint, the pipe and the Cross. For though neither of them are good for the body, they are all good for the soul.
God bless.
Hi Ben, thank you for another insightful article.
I know that the point of this article is to use the symbolism of pipe-smoking in order to relate to prudent decision-making and focusing on God, but I think this article walks along a dangerous line.
As a 22 year old cancer survivor, I find it difficult to digest an article which indulges in the process of smoking. My difficulty is not with the theological implications that you draw from your reflections, but with the air of nonchalance, or even, the romanticising and rejoicing, in this act which destroys your body – a “temple of the Holy Spririt”.
Perhaps it would be prudent to add a note – particularly for the younger readers – of the health implications of smoking.
This blog writes a lot of significant content about true masculinity, but I don’t think that harming one’s body and putting oneself at significant risk of a substance use disorder, represents masculinity at all – but rather, anti-masculinity.
However, the theological contemplations you draw are good and true reflections on a Christian way of living.
Thank you, Ben.
Anthony