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The foundational question of your life
The most important question you will ever ask is “What is the foundational story by which I live my life”? Most of us move through the ups and downs of life assuming that our thoughts are based solely on the reality we are experiencing. We are wrong. The Spanish poet and philosopher, Antonio Machado, put is finger on the challenge all of us face when he wrote, “Under all that we think lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.” Machado, Antonio. “Juan De Mairena: Epigrams, Maxims, Memoranda and Memoirs of an Apocryphyl Professor.” page 75 Before you have them, your thoughts have been shaped by your…
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Becoming Yourself
It must just be the circles I have been moving in but I seem to be coming across a lot of people who are spending a lot of time and energy trying to work themselves out. The journey of individuation is a very important one, but its one that the bible takes a counter-intuitive approach to: For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. Mark 8:35
