Browsing Tag: Goodwill

SAYING WRONG

                “Most everything I’ve ever spoken, I’ve said wrong,” he shared.  “Wrong words…wrong time…wrong understanding.  Learning shame from saying wrong, I’ve spent even more of life sharing nothing at all: keeping in, fearing rejection or misunderstanding—judgment for the wrongs I speak.                 I don’t know why that would suddenly change in me,” he continued.  “I’ll […]

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 […]

ON A STAR

I woke up early today, forgot my journal in our van. I went outside and spent some extra times staring at the stars and listening to the night sounds of summer. A thought came to mind looking up at the stars: the dreams and wishes we cast to them in our own private hopes. It […]