Monty Thurman
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Living the Craft, One Day at a Time
Most men don't drift from their Masonic principles because they stop believing in them. They drift because no one showed them how to carry those principles into Monday morning.
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About the Book
Most Masonic books tell you what the Craft means. This one shows you what to do with it on a Tuesday.
You took your obligations. You sat in the lodge. You heard the lessons.
And then Monday came — and the Craft stayed behind in the lodge room.
The Everyday Mason is built on a simple and uncomfortable truth: Freemasonry doesn't fail men. Men fail to practice Freemasonry. The difference between a Mason who is genuinely transformed by the Craft and one who merely belongs to it comes down to a handful of daily decisions most Brothers never learn to make deliberately.
This book gives you five of them.
Drawn from the Entered Apprentice degree — the foundation every Mason stood on before he understood what he was standing on — the Five Foundation Stones are not a program to complete or a theory to debate. They are habits. Practiced in minutes. Compounded over a lifetime. Capable of producing the kind of man the ritual always promised you could become.
Prayer. Kindness. Brother Outreach. Learning. Reflection.
You already know these words. This book makes them operational.
Written by a third-generation Master Mason with 30 years in the Craft — Past Master, Grand Lodge District Ritual Instructor to more than 8,000 Indiana Brothers, and a builder by trade — The Everyday Mason carries the credibility of someone who has watched the lodge work, and watched it fail, and knows exactly where the gap lives.
It has reached newly raised Master Masons, finding their footing, and 41-year Brothers rediscovering what first drew them to the Craft. A sitting Grand Master purchased a copy. A Brother told him it was the most transformative thing he'd read in four decades of Masonry.
It will not flatter you. It will equip you.
One dollar from every paperback sold benefits the Indiana Masonic Home Foundation.
Masonry works — when it is lived daily.
For autographed copies, reach out to me directly at bro.mont@yahoo.com.
ISBN 979-89-03560-73-8
Praise
“I have been a Master Mason for some 41 years and have never seen anything so succinct, simple, and powerful. Following Brother Thurman's habits has been remarkably transformative for me in just a few days. This is how I'm going to make this good man better.”
“The stepping-stones that Monty lays out are important steps to the personal growth that we obligate ourselves to. He uses instructions that are reiterative and focused, adding in exercises and questions for you to contemplate in your own time. These deceptively simple steps are personal challenges and strategies that are intrinsic to being a Mason.”
“I have one copy to read and one to share with a brother!”
“Brother Monty Thurman's "Everyday Mason" is a timely reminder that the Craft isn't something you belong to — it's something you practice. Most of us already know that. But every now and then, a book like this is worth putting in front of the ones who might need the reminder.”
“Taking my time with this, no need to rush……but WB Monty Thurman, there’s a line you have in here that has stuck in my head since last night. “Masonry works…..when it’s lived daily.”
“The internal qualifications of a man are what masonry regards. This book shows you how to apply the lessons we learn in lodge to our daily lives. It explains how to use these lessons to be a better brother and a better man.”
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