Hodus equals Tariqa?

While reading the book The Prayer of Saint Francis, at the end of a section entitled "How the Prayer of Saint Francis Came About" there was this sentence:
This is a love that consumes mystics like ... or the Sufi Rumi. This sentence in a book by the Catholic and Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff. I had heard of Sufi Rumi recently but knew less than nothing about the person. So where does one look in the 21st century, especially if holding a computer, but Wikipedia? Suprisingly nothing listed under that name. Next destination Google. A string of several references popped up. One was an article in Belief Net, a site I had used before and trusted, so I clicked on one that seemed appropriate. The article was a series of questions and answers entitled "The Sufi-Rumi Connection".  One comment that I found interesting was this:
But we should understand that in every religious tradition, there are different levels. One level is the common practice of religion that they are typically born into. Within a religious tradition, there is also "the path or "the way." The word for this in Islam is "tariqa." Tariqa is a conscious choice that a person makes to go beyond belief to "experience." It is different than nominally belonging to a religion. In Islam, there are many tariqas. Someone who walks the path of tariqa is a Sufi."
(Read more at http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Islam/2001/05/The-Sufi-Rumi-Connection.aspx?p=2#EdbM0FqzSP6XQfP2.99) 

Given the title of this blog I felt that this information should be noted here. One can make of it as one pleases; but it seems that in many cases, especially the monotheistic religions, that there is often a distinction without much of a difference. 

The Stuff of Everyday Life

"... God's glory resides in the stuff of everyday life, just waiting to be seen" writes Rachel Evans in chapter 22 entitled "Wine" from her book Searching for Sunday. In the next chapter "Breath" where she attempts to describe what can not be described aboutthe Spirit, she says seven times "... pay attention..."

Good advice!