After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh (via nataliedawn)
The Nonpossessive Life
To be able to enjoy fully the many good things the world has to offer, we must be detached from them. To be detached does not mean to be indifferent or uninterested. It means to be nonpossessive. Life is a gift to be grateful for and not a property to cling to.
A nonpossessive life is a free life. But such freedom is only possible when we have a deep sense of belonging. To whom then do we belong? We belong to God, and the God to whom we belong has sent us into the world to proclaim in his Name that all of creation is created in and by love and calls us to gratitude and joy. That is what the “detached” life is all about. It is a life in which we are free to offer praise and thanksgiving.
- Henri Nouwen, via MRG
Canada ruined me
as far as writing the word “enrolment” goes.
We use two Ls in the USofA and I don’t think that’ll ever be my instinct.
It’s a mystery of human chemistry and I don’t understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.
— Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (via nedhepburn)
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