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Tag Archives: freedom
Humility Sets Us Free
Photo by Mystic Art Design Thought for the Week It’s common to hear statements to the effect that pride frees us to become our true selves. But this is false pride. Instead, we must reverse the formula. For it’s humility that … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Writing
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, freedom, humility, pride, purpose, thought for the week
21 Comments
Give Up Yourself
“Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Christ, freedom, God, obsession, Romans 8:6, self
14 Comments
On Being Free
Thought for the Week You can never be free in the future. You can only be free in the present. But take heart— it’s always the present. ~MT~
Posted in Quips and Quotes
Tagged beauty, birds, freedom, happiness, philosophy, sky, spirit, thought for the week, will
28 Comments
We Accept the Love…
Photo by Elisabeth Wales “We accept the love we think we deserve” (Stephen Chbosky). Sadly, we are not only prone to accepting the love we think we deserve, but only the love we think we deserve. And it severely limits … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged 2 Corinthians 5:17, Christ, freedom, love, potential, purpose, Stephen Chbosky
13 Comments
Independence and Dependence
Today is Independence Day in my country. I’m proud of this country and of the freedoms its founders proclaimed. But I’m under no delusion that it can grant me the kind of freedom for which my soul truly hungers. Indeed, … Continue reading
Until We Are All Free
“…until we are all free.” Those words are illustrated every year in the holiday Juneteenth. Which commemorates not the official 1865 proclamation that all American slaves were freed, but the real date two months later when the last slaves in … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Quips and Quotes
Tagged America, freedom, holiday, Juneteenth, Martin Luther King Jr, Maya Angelou, racism, slavery
20 Comments
Truth Is a Hard Path
Photo: David John Terry (pinterest.com) Thought for the Week Truth is not comforting. It’s a hard path to stay on. It’s rocky and unpredictable, refusing to show us what we wanted to see, taking us where it will, rather that … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes
Tagged anger, crowds, freedom, politics, Thomas Merton, thought for the week, truth, violence
41 Comments
The Cost of Freedom in 2020
I wrote the words below after the 2016 U.S. elections. This year, the issues seem completely different. But are they? True, we’ve had four years of bluster from a man who believes not so much in conservative values as in … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged America, authoritarianism, Biden, Constitution, democracy, freedom, responsibility, Trump, U.S. elections, vote
35 Comments
Free the Oppressed
“Is not this the fast which I have chosen: To loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to free the oppressed and break every yoke?” ~Isaiah 58:6 Note: Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a founding member … Continue reading
Independence Day?
Today is Independence Day in my country. Independence seems like an odd thing to celebrate at a time when we feel anything but independent, when so much of our independence is curtailed: The right to choose when and where we … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes
Tagged 4th of July, coronavirus, Covid-19, freedom, Independence Day, John 8:31-32, St. Francis, Toni Morrison
30 Comments