Occasionally you meet someone with a thousand-year heart. The person with the thousand-year heart has made the most of the passionate, tumultuous phase of love. Those months or years of passion have engraved a deep commitment in their mind. The person or thing they once loved hotly they now love warmly but steadily, happily, unshakably. […]
Self-control is like a muscle. If you are called upon to exercise self-control often in the course of a day, you get tired and you don’t have enough strength to exercise as much self-control in the evening. But love is the opposite. The more you love, the more you can love. A person who has […]
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…if we look at love in its most passionate phase, we see that love often does several key things to reorient the soul. The first thing it does is humble us. It reminds us that we are not even in control of ourselves. In most cultures and civilizations, love is described in myth and story […]
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One famous passion of this sort occurred between the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Their meeting of the minds took on a special drama, because it happened all in one night… “Their communion was primarily intellectual, emotional, and spiritual, creating a combination of friendship and love. If friends famously confront […]
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The Seinfeld Solution http://www.rich20something.com/how-the-top-1-actually-makes-progress-aka-the-seinfeld-solution/ In 1998, Jerry Seinfeld made $267 million dollars from the 9th and final season of his hit show Seinfeld. Yes, thats a quarter billiondollars. No, that’s not a typo. NBC begged him to do a 10th season to the tune of $5M per episode for 22 episodes (WTF?!). He declined. Needless […]
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Good article by Thom Rainer on bullies in the church. It brought back some bad memories and some guilt, wondering what I could have done differently about the bullies in my previous church. Excerpts… Church bullies are common in many churches. They wreak havoc and create dissension. They typically must have an “enemy” in the […]
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A Pastoral Letter In Response To Marriage Redefinition This is well said on “marriage equality.” Posted by by Arwen McGilvra in News 18 Mar 2015 Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We have reached a moment of change in the PC(USA) which some […]
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excellent article on Forgiveness of a Public figure, by David Brooks There’s something sad in Brian Williams’s need to puff up his Iraq adventures and something barbaric in the public response. The sad part is the reminder that no matter how high you go in life and no matter how many accolades you win, it’s […]
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Life@Work January 31, 2014, 1:28 pm More Mindfulness, Less Meditation By TONY SCHWARTZ http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/more-mindfulness-less-meditation/?src=busln Here’s the promise: Meditation – and mindfulness meditation, in particular – will reduce your cortisol level, blood pressure, social anxiety and depression. It will increase your immune response, resilience and focus and improve your relationships — including with yourself. It will […]
Gospel or Religion? (RJS) Mar 28, 2013 @ 5:32 By RJS 14 Comments http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2013/03/28/gospel-or-religion-rjs/ If the problem is Sin — and Sin is failure to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength — what is the solution? The last four […]