Becoming Love

In response to a recent post titled Redefining Love, my closest friend and counselor (my wife) offered an interesting series of comments and questions.

“Please help me to understand. I am afraid that you over think and evaluate everything. Can’t it be easy to love, not such a thoughtful effort? Why such talk of always having to make the choice?

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The Death of Joy

Quite literally…

On this day of 1960, Joy Davidman Lewis stepped forward into life, true life. In the wake of this event stood a man grieving the loss of his wife. The thoughts and considerations of the months that followed gave us C.S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed.

Somewhat emotionally…

As I consider The Word, many catalyst are given for resulting joy

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The Social Animal – David Brooks

“Most of what we think and believe is unavailable to conscious view. We are our own deepest mystery.”

Thoughts:

The Social Animal is the most intriguing book I have read in the past few years. This is true from the standpoints of both content and style.
Content: The basic premise of the book’s content is that the unconcious mind – evolved, genetically, and learned – has a greater effect on our lives than most people have been willing to acknowledge.

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20 Insights from Rome

Here is a list of things I did not expect to learn on my recent trip to Rome:

1. In Rome, you can order a Big Mac and Beer from the local McDonalds
2. Speed limits are not necessary
3. Actually, traffic laws in general are completely unnecessary
4. Toilet seats are a rare commodity

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Moral Earthquakes and Secret Faults – O.S. Hawkins

The earth is made up of continually moving plates, somewhat like a massive 3-d jigsaw puzzle. The points of connection between the puzzle pieces are called faults. As the plates slowly move and grind against each other, a great deal of tension builds along the fault lines. An earthquake results when that tension becomes more than can be withstood and the earth breaks loose.

Much the same, most of life’s greatest failures do not happen in an instant.

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