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There are universal laws of spiritual farming, laws of reaping and sowing, of judging not lest we be judged. We know they’re true, even though we don’t exercise ourselves often or well enough to get to the place where all we sow is goodness, love, and light.

Recently someone asked me when I was going to start making a difference, or something to that effect. When I write “to that effect,” I mean that what he said had this particular effect on me, whether he intended it or not.

My conflict with Juniper’s teacher has been useful for shedding light on the often dark paths toward the ever-evolving real selves of my daughter and me. That the conflict involves one of my children is better yet, because conflicts involving one’s children rank among the highest for potential usefulness.

Our daughter’s fourth grade teacher recently became a “stone of stumbling and rock of offense” to us, giving us the gift and challenge of conflict. I don’t blame Miss Brown, although I see some facts about her behavior and think I understand the tenor of her words. Miss Brown’s life work so far has been teaching.

Author(s): Alberto ToscanoISBN: 9781403997807Publisher: Palgrave MacmillanDate: 17 Mar 2006Pages: 252 This book provides both a historical analysis of the philosophical problem of individuation, and a new trajectory in its treatment. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze, as well as C.S.

When I traveled cross-country last fall, a close friend who lives in our nation’s capital observed that one of the great challenges in my life has been the tension between my interest in politics and my passion for literature (or, as I would put it, in myths, movies, novels or poems).

Sidetracked is what happens when one is going along toward a goal and suddenly there’s a detour. The detour may take us around an obstacle and back to the road that leads to the goal, or it may take us farther and farther away from our goal. Sometimes I feel despair when I’ve been sidetracked.

Today is the one-year anniversary of The Third Eve. I’m grateful for every single one of the community of bloggers I’ve come to know and love through the simple act of writing. You’ve enriched my life and enlightened me; thank you. quaternity I started blogging because I had gotten out of the habit of writing.

One year after Olivia’s death, my teenage and adult children and I were playing a game called Imaginif, in which the players answer questions about one another. I was the subject of the question, “If this player were an insect, which one would she be?” The possible answers were louse, ant, wasp, praying mantis, butterfly, and glow worm.

Every person who attends your church needs to know the answer to this question. Church leaders, how are you answering it? There are two thoughts that lead me to this question. The first comes from Christopher Brook’s blog. He contemplates our freedom of conversion in contrast to the cost associated with that conversion.