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“There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind of humanity. And that lie is, ‘There’s not enough good to go around. There’s lack and there’s limitation and there’s just not enough.’ The truth is that there’s more than enough good to go around.
The apartment is owned by the campus itself, complete with campus furniture and a full kitchen. It is quite charming, in good shape, very convenient to class, and our daughter is looking forward to cooking for herself instead of eating in the dining hall.
I thought this letter to the editor by my colleague on our local Ridgefield Clergy Association was a brilliant and needed response following the horrible happenings in Charlottesville.
Yesterday our daughter graduated from Sunday School with her friend…see photos in this post of our graduation celebration, complete with photos of their Sunday School teachers, with their parents…
If everyone in the world could actually congregate around these old but perceptive guidelines, there would literally be peace on earth.
It is possible to live from a place of slowness, savouring each instant of life, tasting the days rather than rushing through them.
I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good. I’ve even taken photographs of some of them –mostly with my iPhone–as shown in this post.
It hovers in dark corners
before the lights are turned on,
it shakes sleep from its eyes
and drops from mushroom gills,
What happened is that after 9.5 years of blogging everyday, this site grew too large for our (affordable) server. We had to migrate all of it to another bigger, much more expensive server, and because there was so much to transfer it took a bunch of time.
We had a quiet day here, reading on the front porch while the Firecracker Race runs by, chatting by phone and FaceTime with our children, having watermelon and burgers, hanging out in our beach chairs at the Quarry with friends, and then
It takes courage to stand one’s ground against homogeneous thinking—thinking that simply melds into what everyone else is thinking.
The whole event was a great way to open up to the community, build relationships, and remove misinformation and stereotypes. What a good example for the rest of us!
Truth is universal, impartial, supreme. It can’t be divided up, nor curated into one selective brand of reality. Neither can it act as a pendulum…
It pleases me beyond reason that I actually know the person that had enough vision, faith, and fun to put the smiles on those fish!
Here were some of the lessons from this story we discussed in Sunday School:
I love the metaphor both of these pieces utilize. Indeed, take heart! “The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
David Brooks of the New York Times calls this book “essential reading for this moment in history.” I agree, and surprise myself by giving this book that I dragged my feet so long about reading– five stars.