I’m of the mind that companies should give the daddy 4 weeks at home when a new baby comes. I wonder what would happen if I started a company with policies like that? Bankruptcy or sustainability?
So who am I, exactly?
Still waiting.
buechner, easter
de mello
I was able to get through to God and he remembered me like I was his only son.
Joaquin Phoenix in Hotel Rwanda SCENE 1 (by magnificentse7en)
“I think if people see this footage they’ll say, “oh my God that’s horrible,” and then go on eating their dinners.”
How do we respond to atrocities halfway around the world, while we experience
the desire to cause change,
organizational limitations,
the overabundance of financial resources we use for entertainment and creature comforts,
and despair (because of an overwhelming problem)?
The answer is not to do nothing.
(Source: youtu.be)
Excerpt:
“When I was 38, my best friend, Pammy, died, and we went shopping about two weeks before she died, and she was in a wig and a wheelchair. I was buying a dress for this boyfriend I was trying to impress, and I bought a tighter, shorter dress than I was used to. And I said to her, ‘Do you think this makes my hips look big?’ and she said to me, so calmly, ‘Anne, you don’t have that kind of time.’ And I think Easter has been about the resonance of that simple statement; and that when I stop, when I go into contemplation and meditation, when I breathe again and do the sacred action of plopping and hanging my head and being done with my own agenda, I hear that, ‘You don’t have that kind of time,’ you have time only to cultivate presence and authenticity and service, praying against all odds to get your sense of humor back.”
L’Engle
This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
- Orson Scott Card (via benjamin7373)Great post at the link above regarding the conversation about what we call Acts of God. Good stuff…
Being Present
I found another amazing passage from Buechner that goes well with this…
” . . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having been born just to have happen. laughing with somebody till the tears run down your cheeks. waking up to the first snow. being in bed with somebody you love… whether you thank god for such a moment or thank your lucky stars, it is a moment that is trying to open up your whole life. If you turn your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose you the ball game. if you throw your arms around such a moment and hug it like crazy, it may save your soul.”
— Frederick Buechner
I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my life, that I do not think that the human spirit may know anything with greater evidence and certitude.” - René Descartes
- “Les Meditations” in The Meditations and Selections from the Principles of René Descartes, Open Court Publishing, 1950Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
“Huh?”, I asked.
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
- John Green - Looking for Alaska (Source: humblewhisper)
