Lightning: A Manifesto
Work, in contrast, is the business of, well, one’s hands: when they engage the world, hands are the extension of one’s thoughts. Rather than being acted upon by the world, which is the lot of the laborer, the skilled worker shapes, with thought and deliberation, the material she finds in the world—an insight that also applies to the intellectual
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The other day I saw a picnic table under a tree, and it stopped me.
God made the tree. People made the table.
It reminded me of what T.D. Jakes once said: God didn’t make tables, He made trees — and He gave you a brain to imagine what those trees could be.
That table was a “creation from creation.” And it’s not just furniture — it’s a setting for
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