“If they make you better, that’s what matters. Don’t destroy something good simply because it’s of a source you did not expect. Don’t judge from preconceptions that inhibit growth: live, experience, respond. People and circumstance come into our lives to bring about our change, our growth, and movement towards something better. We cannot […]
Browsing Tag: Quick thought
Journal Pages
ACT OF THE WILL
“Love is not primarily an emotion, but an act of the will.”—Bishop Robert Barron There are many days I don’t feel love, not in the way most often imagined. I don’t wake, heart aglow with passion or elation for another. As years pass, people and passions change. It’s not what it was when […]
Quick Thought
CHANGE THE WORLD
“The world is shaped by force. It is changed by love.” I wrote this quick thought this morning reflecting on how I’ve best been affected and influenced in my own life. In the Marines, often we try and shape conditions by the amount of force we bring to bear for a targeted effect. It usually […]