This is one of the most interesting stories you will read this week, about a hermit no less… Click here.
Talk about Solitude.
Category Archives: experience
fascinating but sad story
Filed under experience, the self
addicted to praise?
“Without solitude, we cannot fathom just how enslaved we are. So many of us are chained to the opinion of others. We’re addicted to praise and affirmation and eviscerated by criticism. Vainly, we busy ourselves in managing the impressions others have of us. We exhaust ourselves in trying to become somebody in their eyes.”
Just read this HERE in a book excerpt in Christianity Today. Like me, you may have to wade through the beginning to get to the meat but once you’re there, it really is a thought provoking read.
Extroverts beware.
Christ Follower? Discouraged? Read:
Beware of allowing the influence of your friends or your circumstances to divide your life. More…
Aim at heaven… – C.S.Lewis
Behold the Lamb! – John the Baptist
leaking roof as window to life
Karl Vaters has posted some wisdom for “small church pastors” (kinda his target) than has broad applications to life… CLICK HERE, read, think, pray and apply. What has become invisible to you?
Kyiv: an encampment
The Maidan remains a camp site for many protesters.
It seems to have become a community of its own within the city.
They wait for the end of corruption in government.
Filed under Eastern Europe, experience, photos along the way, shifts, Ukraine
Still weeping #pray for Ukraine
In the midst of a war memorial park in Kyiv there are a couple of bridge like structures worked into the park to give you the impression that you are underground. On either side of the sort-of tunnel that is created are bronze (?) statuary that, if it were painting, would be a mural. These are scenes from WW2. In the midst of the soldiers and partisans, the workers and farmers (this was the Soviet Union after all) is a lone figure.
I’ve seen her several times over the years, she always caught my eye, this matriarchal figure, but recent events made me realize that her heart is breaking again. She is still weeping.
Filed under Eastern Europe, experience, photos along the way, travel notes
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