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YOUTHFUL HEART
Yesterday, our youngest son had a rough day at school, and my wife and I are to blame. It was his second day of preschool. He is five, a July birthday, and one of the oldest in his class. Day one, he was excited to return. He was excited to see his friends […]
FIVE-YEAR OLD IN CHURCH
“You can’t let him wrestle you at church!” she scolded quietly as they walked out of mass, her voice low so as only one could hear. “I’m pretty sure he was just praying with me,” the father answered. “He was getting a solid grip.” “I could hear you choking!” “Was I? […]
HERETIC
“A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it…they care even more, and desire us to care even more, about their startling and […]
THE HOPEFUL MAN
“…it is at the hopeless moment that we require the hopeful man, and the virtue either does not exist at all, or begins to exist at that moment. Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.”—G. K. Chesterton, Heretics If Good, we deserve to find what we […]
ETERNAL SUNSHINE
There is no such thing as eternal sunshine. Light without rest is malaise becoming maddening insanity. You need the rest. You need the night. You need the dark. To reach a new day, one must first pass through night. We must be in darkness for new light to show. We must be in […]