Every Night, Emma Left One Chair At The Dinner Table Empty.
One Night, They Asked Her Why.
She Looked At The Empty Chair And Whispered :
"Because He Still Comes Home".
That Night, The Chair Moved By Itself.
Who Do You Think Was Sitting There?
Every Night, Emma Left One Chair At The Dinner Table Empty.
One Night, They Asked Her Why.
She Looked At The Empty Chair And Whispered :
"Because He Still Comes Home".
That Night, The Chair Moved By Itself.
Who Do You Think Was Sitting There?
One of the funniest things about secular modern culture is watching people reinvent Christianity piece by piece while acting intellectually superior the entire time. People abandoned confession and now pay someone $240 plus taxes an hour to listen to them describe their guilt in a softly lit room. They abandoned sin and replaced it with "unprocessed trauma." They abandoned repentance and replaced it with "doing the work." They abandoned examination of conscience and replaced it with journaling…
I do not think most people are fantasizing about free time in any serious sense. They are fantasizing about free time available for consumption. That is a different thing. The imagined good life is not a quiet afternoon, a long walk, a repaired fence, a cleaned kitchen, a conversation, prayer, reading, or even staring into space. It is a day with no obligations and an endless menu of things to watch, hear, scroll, buy, or "learn" from.
One of the common atheist temptations is to confuse unbelief with clarity, to assume that religion is the irrational part, so removing religion must leave behind a cleaner and more rational human being. But human beings do not work that way, human beings operate through beliefs, emotions... We do not stop wanting ritual, purity, moral tribe, sense of sacredness or transcendent meaning just because we stop using religious language for those desires.
How could you do that to a soul
I realize, interacting with students, teenagers and younger co-workers peers that many believe that their personality traits are a leading factor in deciding what do to or how to tackle their own career. Although younger people ask these questions more explicitly, older adults also seem to think along the same lines. I personally find it to be far more irrelevant than most people think. Besides my job, where I observe successful people doing the same role with drastically...
You once held me close,
The train pulls away,
Effortless Meditation
Every Night, Emma Left One Chair At The Dinner Table Empty.