There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G.K. Chesterton
About a mile into the woods, a dry creek bed is revealing the secrets of its rock-strewn bottom. A snake slithers through the leaves, but remains unseen, while a lizard suns itself on the western side of a large oak. The sandy path glows an ambient green from the light peeking through thick [...]
“Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.” - George Macdonald
I have been stressed lately.
In case you aren’t aware of the way in which I handle stress, let me break it down for you.
1) I [...]
How easy it is to slip from a desire to excel for a noble reason, into a desire to excel because we perceive excellence is what makes us what we are. What begins as a desire to do right is so easily twisted into a desire to be better than everyone else. [...]
Alisa had mentioned in her post, Living Simply, that we were talking about simplifying our lives the other night at church. She makes a good point, that the simplification of our lives is, itself, not that simple. The process seems a battle with the hydra…we chop off one head and five others [...]