LOCATION IS ACCIDENTAL
Location is accidental to its deepest meaning. What really matters is not where we are, but who - what real beings - are with us.
Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb
PROCESS
Interest in results never conquers boredom with process.
Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb
THE GRACES OF THE WORLD ARE THE LOOKS OF A WOMAN IN LOVE
The graces of the world are the looks of a woman in love; without the woman they could not be there at all; but without her lover they would not quicken into loveliness.
Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb
DAILY PRACTICES
Daily Practices for a Rule of Life
Morning prayers before 6am.
Meaningful conversation with someone by asking good questions.
Good meal where I sat down and savored the food.
Walk a mile with Amos (our Cavalier King Charles Spaniel).
Focused my attention for 2 hours on “deep work” to not put out fires at work all day.
I have found great benefit in creating a “habit tracker” for these 5 Daily Practices. They are listed in my journal along with the days of the week to create a simple chart where I mark an “X” to visually track my daily practice. Weeks I live into these rhythms regularly are noticeably different than weeks I live “out of sync”.
Jared Ray Mackey
TRAGIC RESULT OF FALSE SELF
The false self is the tragic result of trying to steal something from God that we didn’t have to steal. Had we dared to trust God’s goodness, we would have discovered that everything we could ever most deeply long for would be ours in God.
David Benner, The Gift of Being Yourself
FORMULA OF A PITCH
The story mostly follows the same formula: here’s why we started this company, here’s why it's working and here’s why it could be a hundred times bigger.
Mathilde Collin
INSIDE JONAH
I was so obsessed
with what was going on
inside the whale
that I missed
seeing the drama
inside Jonah.
Thomas John Carlisle
You, Jonah!
NO PROBLEM
Wither shall I flee
From Thy presence?
present no problem
when one ignores
who owns
the sea
and the sky.
Thomas John Carlisle
You, Jonah!
COMING AROUND
And Jonah stalked
to his shaded seat
and waited for God
to come around
to his way of thinking.
And God is still waiting
for a host of Jonahs
in their comfortable houses
to come around
to His way of loving.
Thomas John Carlisle
You, Jonah!
BE HOLY, BE KIND
If you want to be holy, be kind.
Frederick Buechner
INSCRIBING MEANING TO MEMORIES
Personal healing happens not so much by remembering traumatic events and their accompanying emotions as by interpreting memories and inscribing them into a larger pattern of meaning - stitching them into the patchwork quilt of one’s identity, as it were.
Miroslav Volf
The End of Memory