“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter
Beware that many people want to be offended; outrage gives them an intoxicating sense of moral superiority. So desperate are they to be mad that they’ll actively seek out provocations online, wilfully misinterpret your words, and even imagine you said things you didn't.”
—Gurwinder Bhogal
Reinhold Niebuhr defined sin as a human tendency towards self-importance, failure, and moral corruption. He believed that sin occurs when people try to find security outside of the relationship between time and eternity, and when they refuse to acknowledge their limitations as creatures. Niebuhr believed that people sin by pretending to be more tha... See more
Emotionally Spiritual Leadership
Lord, that I might see your presence presencing itself and giving itself away as the intimate immediacy of the grace and miracle of our very presence and of all things in our communal nothingness without you. Help us to understand that the generosity of the Infinite is infinite and that we are the generosity of God. We are the song you sing.”
“We must always remember that possessions have no inherent value. They become what we make them. If they increase our capacity to give, they become something good. If they increase our focus on ourselves and become standards by which we measure other people, they become something bad.”
— Kent Nerburn
We often worship old things as substitutes for eternal things.
Elders are a people of the future. My culture respects the elders not only because of their wisdom, but because of their determination. The elders are tough. They have survived many struggles and many losses. Now, as they look ahead to another generation, they are determined that their sacrifices will not have been in vain, that their children’s ch... See more
Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away. And though hope can be an act of defiance, defiance isn’t enough reason to hope. But there are good reasons.
Perhaps the simplest and most inclusive definition of grief is “unfinished hurt.”