Our universities fail to guide us down the easiest paths to wisdom… Rather than teaching a sense of awe, they teach the very opposite: counting and measuring over delight, sobriety over enchantment, a rigid hold on scattered individual parts over an affinity for the unified and whole. These are not schools of wisdom, after all,…
Simple Gifts
My friend Robin also writes a blog. Most of her pieces are on simplification and avoiding excess, but this week she posted a quote that struck home. “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde. As we enter our later years we value more and more simplicity and honesty in who we are. This…
Make Yourself At Home
I grew up with the greeting, “Make yourself at home.” My mother would constantly greet people at the door by saying, “Welcome, come on in and make yourself at home.” I came across the greeting the other day and thought, “I need to make myself at home in my own skin.” We all need to…
Independence Day
Life is full of Independence days. No I am not talking about the Fourth of July, but of days where we break away the normal, the comfortable, and venture forth into a new adventure. Some Independence days are brought on by necessity or events, and some are self-imposed. Some days are caused by a need…
For The Sake Of the Name
As they left the council, they rejoiced that they were considered worthy to suffer for the sake of the name. — Acts 5:41. Today’s verses got me thinking. Over two thousand years later we are still fighting over who gets to claim the name of Jesus. Don’t you think God and Jesus are sitting up in…