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The passionate pursuit
There is a great article by David Brooks on becoming people with passionate pursuit in our lives once again. In it, I was caught by his definition of “leisure.”
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Interesting reading
I have been hitting some articles and essays over the past few weeks and wanted to pass along the fun, the challenging, and the insane. First, some Mark Twain quotes:
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Building character
There are some practices we can install into our lives that build deep character. It’s beyond the quick dopamine hits we get from short videos or quick hits on social media. This is the deeper work we need to rebuild in our lives. A few years ago, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist, Angela Duckworth, got a bit more specific. She…
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The place of joy
It hit me with the force of joy. Happiness is what we experience as we celebrate the achievements of the self — winning a prize. Joy is what we feel when we are encompassed by a presence that transcends the self. We create happiness, but are seized by joy — in my case by the sensation that I had just…
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The Discipline of Confession
Michael Wear’s book, The Spirit of Our Politics, was a book we used in a book group at our church right up to the election. When the book moved from theory (what is wrong with our politics) to the practical (spiritual disciplines can help us be better in this world), we faltered.
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We need more than information
Some thoughts from David Brooks on making careful decisions and adding in emotional intelligence: For thousands of years, it was common in Western thought to imagine that there was an eternal war between reason and our emotions. In this way of thinking, reason is cool, rational and sophisticated. Emotions are primitive, impulsive and likely to lead you astray. A wise…
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Why the “isms” ultimately fail
There is a struggle between “liberalism” and “authoritarianism” currently, according to David Brooks. Yet, we have to understand every “system” is severely flawed.
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Creating what is good
David Brooks draws from Howard Thurman’s book Jesus and the Disinherited to discuss how to create deep change in our communities. (HERE) Basically, it is hard work. It is worthy work.
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A vision of hope
If there is any word that best describes my feeling in this election year it’s this: Exhaustion
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Rough waters are ahead
I would say we are about to “navigate rough waters ahead” in this time in history, but I don’t know if we understand what that means. Nevertheless, this from David Brooks:
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