Batch Batchelder

English teacher Elizabeth Stone on how becoming a parent changes you:

"It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

Source: A Boy I Once Knew ​

Oscar Wilde with his characteristic paradoxical wisdom:

“Saints always have a past and sinners always have a future.”

Work becomes great when curiosity drives it beyond obligation.

It’s really just you against the mirror. You vs you. No one else can win at a game of one. I know it’s hard not to get distracted, race horses wear blinders for a reason. Your lane you’re game. LFG.

Litany of Reconciliation

All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

The hatred which divides nation from nation, race from race, class from class,

Father forgive.

The covetous desires of people and nations to possess what is not their own,

Father, forgive.

The greed which exploits the work of human hands and lays waste the earth,

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“If you were me, what would you suggest doing?”

“You are as old as the risks you take. In many ways, aging is not the process of growing old, but rather the slow death of becoming overly protective, scared, and worried about losing what you have. Youth is found in the energy of going for it, taking the risk, and trusting that you’ll figure it out along the way.”

Do you really wish to claim this Christ and his way? Is this truly what you believe about the world? And are you now ready to imagine what bearing this Christ-life into the world looks like now ?

To Keep a True Lent Is this a fast, to keep The larder lean? And clean From fat of veals, and sheep? Is it to quit the dish Of flesh, yet still To fill The platter high with fish? Is it to fast an hour, Or ragged go, Or show A downcast look, and sour? No: ’tis a fast, to dole Thy sheaf of wheat, And meat, Unto the hungry soul. It is to fast from st... See more