The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.
People respond to vision, not need.
Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.
My dad and I are very different people. For example, he's been stabbed; I'm afraid of bugs. He's a mechanic; I once had to exchange a "broken" rental car because I didn't realize I was driving around with the parking brake on. I could keep going, but you get it.
We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.
. . . human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.