Why should we live in such a hurry and waste of life?
We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.
I wish to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
I want to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not lived.
I do not wish to live what is not life, living is so dear.
Nor do I wish to practice resignation, unless it is quite necessary.
I want to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,
I want to cut a broad swath, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.
If it proves to be mean, then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world;
Or if it is sublime, to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it.
By Henry David Thoreau
I’ve been at my parents’ home in Pennsylvania for the past week and a half celebrating the holidays. One of the things my mom wanted me to do while visiting was to go through all of the boxes of school paperwork that she has saved since I was in the first grade.
I suppose that every American of my generation has a “how Dr. King shaped my life” story. Here is mine. Read more →
I was thinking about the directive of Micah 6:8, “do justice.” If you read the earlier verses, you can see that people were asking Micah questions about rules and regulations. Read more →
I love for a waitress to call me “Hon.” It’s comforting. She doesn’t know me, and I don’t know her, but we fit into well-worn, ancient categories: I am the “Hungry One” and she is the “One Who Brings Nourishment From the Unseen Source.” Read more →
The wellspring of decency is loving this life in which people die, people suffer, there are limits, and we make mistakes. Read more →
A friend of mine says that the real secret to every sermon lies in the experience that made the minister want to preach it. Read more →
What is it that makes something Evil, and not just really bad, or unfortunate, or wrong? And why does evil exist? Read more →
Sin is what caused me to leave the church and give up religion, and sin is what brought me back. Read more →
On a sunny day in September…a stern-faced, plainly dressed man could be seen standing still on a street corner in the busy Chicago Loop. As pedestrians hurried by on their way to lunch or business, he would solemnly lift his right arm, and pointing to the person nearest him, intone loudly…”GUILTY!” Read more →
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