Vacation: Practicing for Life

Vacation: Practicing for Life

Being too serious about lighter things can ruin them, for instance by undermining spontaneity. At the same time, a certain intentionality is always in order, especially when arranging things for others. Vacation can have a significant place in life, and so it calls...
Where Do You Graze Your Flock?

Where Do You Graze Your Flock?

It is perhaps the most important thing I ask someone I love. In a sense, nothing else matters. “Show me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest at midday.” (Song of Songs 1:7) Wherever that is, so there will I live. With you. This brings to...
The Antidote to News:  Real Life Here and Now

The Antidote to News: Real Life Here and Now

Wise men and the purveyors of contemporary culture recognize the same dramatic truth. We are addicted to news. Probably unlike the purveyors, the wise perceive the root of the addiction and so can offer something the purveyors don’t want—a path to freedom. Over...
The Best Reason to Read Aloud Together

The Best Reason to Read Aloud Together

There is nothing quite like the silence that comes over the room at the close of the final sentence. For a brief yet timeless stretch we are all there together, highly aware of one another but in wonderful solitude. Then, the conversation begins. The power of reading...
The Gift God Offers at Christmastime

The Gift God Offers at Christmastime

We are rightly reminded at Christmas to keep in mind the reason for the season, or the reality that we are celebrating. A less-considered but related angle is that our very celebrating can and should change us. Or in any case it can dispose us for what often escapes...

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