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Honored to be included with these writers in reflecting on the seven last words of Jesus from the cross.
More about the series: https://t.co/udh4zYWIyD
Dispatch from the day job:
In 1994, Madeleine L'Engle spoke at Laity Lodge and chose as her title Putting Descartes Before the Horse.
We seriously need to up our pun game around here.
The other day we walked through our first house for the final time. Inspired by some wise friends, we paused to remember the life we’ve shared there. Then I made a list.
“Not all change is loss; not all loss is tragic.”
—James K.A. Smith, How to Inhabit Time
Somebody help me out: what’s the German word for the irrational existential panic one feels knowing there’s a *possibility* the book you might possibly want to read tomorrow is packed away in a trailer you won’t have access to for a week and a half?
If I were asked what I want to accomplish as a writer, I would say it’s to contribute to a literature of hope. . . . I want to help create a body of stories in which men and women can discover trustworthy patterns.
—Barry Lopez
Today, some reflections on faith, art, and sentimentality with Thomas Kinkade—and with Rembrandt, that other “painter of light.”
https://t.co/GqKmsVeTd3
Life is short. We don’t have much time to gladden the hearts of those who walk this way with us. So, be swift to love and make haste to be kind.
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel
THE LATEST: "The Sacred Art of Paying Attention to Your Life"
Timothy Hoiland on Augustine, pears, pens, and the slow miracle of feeling again: https://t.co/rCScfqMw8p