I have set my weapons down, The long range guns and My favorite dagger Useful in hand-to-hand combat. I have stripped off my armor, Even the chainmail. And now I’m simply down to my many
Grace and Joy, in their fullest doses, are found in the belly of the whale. The full strength of our need and the full strength of God’s power is best tasted where self-sufficiency is rendered useless
Each moment is a becoming: complaining or rejoicing, fearing or leaping. Each decision is a hammered nail in the eternal house of my soul. Picture from http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcodede/72442746/ |Date=December 9, 2005 |Author=Marcos André
Eeyore’s “woe is me” attitude is cute only on television. In real life, he’s hard to live with. In real life, his morose brooding is more contagious than Influenza and a hundred times more dangerous.
My friend lost power to her attached garage the other day. The house had electricity, but everything powered through the garage was dead. The garage door wouldn’t open. The sprinklers didn’t work. I traced the
Maggie Jackson, in her book Distraction wrote, “Amid the glittering promise of our new technologies and the wondrous potential of our scientific gains, we are nurturing a culture of social diffusion, intellectual fragmentation, sensory detachment.
“Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted, anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words.” -Alasdair MacIntyre A peer of mine, bemoaning the inept vacuum we were unfortunate enough to share, once
We have built a worldwide metropolis of glitz and clamor and so we are complicit in her faults. Like Dr. Frankenstein, we have built a monster and our monster has stolen both silence and quiet
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