Category: Waxing Philosophical
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Thoughts from Erwin McManus on taking action towards the future (taken from Soul Cravings): The future doesn’t happen by accident; it happens through engagement. We were created to strive for progress and to pursue it with passion. It is God who designed us this way. He made us creative, and he makes us responsible. Somehow…
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Home. What is home? Is it a place? A sentimental location? A house? A state of mind? Is it really "where the heart is"? I was born in the great Commonwealth of Kentucky nearly 33 years ago. My family migrated to south Florida and I spent my teenage years there baking in the sun like…
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I read H.G. Wells The Time Machine this afternoon. Short little book, but thought-provoking. I somehow missed it even though I read many of the classics growing up. The book triggered a question for me about what it would be like to look into the future. So let’s say you had a time machine at…
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I recently learned the Chinese word for decision. It’s "jue-ding" (second tone, fourth tone, if that helps you at all! Ha-ha…) The Chinese character looks like this: 决定 I can guess (and I’m way out of my league here) that these two characters (taken individually) mean (or connotate) thought and certainty. Or "thinking with certainty"…deciding…
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The picture above depicts yours truly in a contemplative posture. I was most likely doing which of the following… a. Calculating the number of days (~360+) before I would be able to return to an establishment that sells espresso drinks in standard sizes (short, tall, grande) and where such drinks are prepared following a multi-stepped…
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Each day is a gift, right? The older I get the more I am made aware of this truth. Even with Mafan breathing down my neck, I can still see the blessings–the surprising goodness of life. I think writing for this blog the past two years has also shown me how much actually happens in…
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"Silence is tough at first, like an infant is tough. I think it springs from the same place in the universe where space is made, and breath, and appreciation." from Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott I know people whom I would consider quiet. I know other people who consider silence to be a form of…
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Today in some of our seminars we discussed some of the differences in thinking / worldview between people from the West and people from the East. (Now for clarification, I’m not talking about the lands lying to the right and to the left of the Rocky Mountains, although there are definitely some worldview differences there…
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