Jeromy Emerling

Storyteller. Learner. Graced.

[Wendell Berry @WendellDaily]

The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

[Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller]

“We will not be happy if we are driven to continually increase our standard of living.”

[Thomas Merton @MertonDaily]

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

[Kirby Myers @Myers_Kirby]

Who wore it better? Hillary Clinton or Benny Hinn? #Debate #DebateNight

[Wendell Berry @WendellDaily]

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence.

[Richard Foster @FosterEveryday]

Enslavement to the opinions of others is the source of a great deal of duplicity in modern society.

[Jeromy Emerling @JeromyEmerling]

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.#emilypost

[Jeromy Emerling @JeromyEmerling]

My kids: "Takeout would be good for dinner." Me: "No way." Deborah & I waited til they went to bed, then we got takeout. #madparentingskills

[The Inklings @inklingsdaily]

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

Owen Barfield

[Jeromy Emerling @JeromyEmerling]

@CaptainNoble I'm surprised at how little the media has said about her deception in this. Deception is the new normal, and we are complicit.

[Jeromy Emerling @JeromyEmerling]

"Evil comes in small steps. If it were to come all at once, we would not be deceived." -Paisios of Athos

[Jeromy Emerling @JeromyEmerling]

The live musician in this pub makes me think I could make a go of it on the upstate New York pub circuit. #yourmomwaswrong #youownitbuddy

[Jeromy Emerling @JeromyEmerling]

Apparently we have to schedule living in the moment now. #oxymoron? #thingsfoundatchurch #sayingitdoesntmakeittrue

[Jeromy Emerling @JeromyEmerling]

Text from my 9-year old on mom's phone today: Eli is not picking up at a resunbol Speed and is being super anoing.I can Not put up with him.

[Jeromy Emerling @JeromyEmerling]

Today, “conservative” and “liberal” are opposites.Before the words became politically/theologically stereotyped, it was good to be both. #JP

[Thomas Merton @MertonDaily]

The spiritual life is, then, first of all a matter of keeping awake.

[Jeromy Emerling @JeromyEmerling]

@CaptainNoble I enjoyed that series very much.

[A W Tozer @TozerAW]

"Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!" AW Tozer #tozer

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Today's paper, an unintentional reminder to look at third party candidates like @GovGaryJohnson or @DrJillStein.

[Jeromy Emerling @JeromyEmerling]

"The true object of all human life is play." Said by a theologian; play and God are compatible. #GKChesterton