Category Archives: Thinking Outloud

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A Time to Dance

There is a time for everything,and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time [...]

What does it mean to be beautiful?

Since I started to read Uglies with my oldest daughter, I have been wondering about beauty. What is it? How do we attain it? How  or what do I teach my daughters about beauty?
I came across this wonderful video interview…

Path to Heaven

“..Of course! The path to heaven
doesn’t lie down in flat miles.
It’s in the imagination
with which you perceive
this world,
and the gestures
with which you honor it…”
Mary Oliver, poet

I really have no idea what this quote means but for some reason it really moves me. What do you think?

Hurry means…

“Hurry means that we gather impressions but have no experiences, that we collect acquaintances but make no friends, that we attend meetings but experience no encounter. We must recover eternity if we are to find time, and eternity is what Jesus came to restore. For without it, there can be no charity.” - D. T. [...]

On Loving God

One of my favorite quotes…makes me go hmmmmmm…

“I don’t love God.
I don’t want to love God.
But I want to want to love God.”
St. Teresa of Avila

Can you relate?