“How are you going to make your best of today?” Mike Goncalves during Creative Giant Show #82 Today? You mean: Make my best of being present in the moment? That’s today’s straightforward path: I’m attending two high school graduations, and given the logistics I’ve been “going to graduations” since 11:30am. I’m enjoying witnessing the girls […]
(2009-01-13) Did you ever get thanked for something you didn’t realize you’d done? An argument from the professedly rational against populist Evangelicals is their notion of tiny answered prayers. What earthly sense does it make for the All-Being Master of Time, Space, and Dimension to hand out unchipped manicures and unexpected green lights? This seems […]
Axiom of the Faithful: God, being omnipotent, leverages each of us within our circumstances to work God’s blessing in the world. That is, either God placed you where you are in order to do something specific with regard to your placement, or God works with where you dropped yourself and makes God-things happen. I vote […]
Jeremiah 20:(7) O Lord, you have enticed me, / and I was enticed; / you have overpowered me, / and you have prevailed. (9)If I say, “I will not mention him, / or speak any more in his name,” / then within me there is something like a burning fire / shut up in my […]
Now that my Bible study crew has wrapped up for the school year, I’ve picked up My Sweetie’s Pocket Thomas Merton. He got it in his Christmas stocking one year; I suspect he hasn’t gotten to it yet. In the foreword, the editor encourages one to read along until something sticks. It seems an interesting […]
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. -John 15:9, NRSV “Abide” has a lovely antique flavor to it, like lace you find at a vintage store. I’ve always heard echoes of the Southern “bide awhile” in it…sitting on a porch with an iced drink, out of the sun […]
Full disclosure: I am distracting myself from doing the Real Thing I was doing. There’s a word for this particular style of procrastination, but I will triumph over recursive procrastination and not look that up. Right now, anyway. I talk a lot here about my habit-resistant nature, and it’s a true thing, but last week I […]
This week has operated even more poorly than usual! Having B in the house all day is, I think, throwing me off… I’ve noticed a similar thing when My Sweetie is home all day. I suspect I spend my days waiting for them to interrupt me, so that I don’t do anything that I might […]
St. Thomas Aquinas says that art does not require rectitude of the appetite, that it is wholly concerned with the good of that which is made. He says that a work of art is a good in itself, and this is a truth that the modern world has largely forgotten. We are not content to […]
I’m not a real grownup. Or not a real grownup writer. I can’t get myself to belly up and Write Anyway, Dammit. Real writers keep writing because writing is a job that one does every day, like other jobs of work. I note that even when I did other jobs of work I had plenty […]
