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To read today’s post and hear the music, please go to the Just A Thought website. In A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway wrote: “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave — impartially.” Many young men today are … Continue reading Broken Open
To read today’s post please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. Years ago my brother Kevin gave me a print of a painting by Eric Engstrom of Thomas Wilden, a food peddler in solitary prayer at his dinner table. I remember how it moved me. I was at a low point in my life. As I looked at the picture I … Continue reading Backdoor Prayers
To read today’s post and hear the recording, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. This post is dedicated to my friend Ray Levias, who in high school gave me some of my first real lessons in friendship. Over the past forty years one of the greatest things I’ve learned has been the preeminent importance of the practice of friendship. It’s … Continue reading The Practice of Friendship
To read this post in its optimal format, click the link above, or click here. “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” ~ C.S. Lewis A parent’s relationship to pain cannot help but be passed on to their children. Like many … Continue reading Thoughts on Pain
To read today’s post in its optimal format please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. ***** “You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in one drop.“ ~ Rumi I suspect when most of us reach a certain age reminiscing becomes a larger feature in our daily life — exploring the ever fascinating topic of how … Continue reading Bumping Into Karma