Category Archives: Death to Self
Anonymous
(All photos are part of this set at my Flickr account.) This is my first opportunity to use the 4000-cubic-inch Kelty backpack they gave me for my birthday. We are always curious about how much our packs weigh, so we … Continue reading
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Pride Is Not a Cat
This may come as a surprise, but pride is not the strutting Siamese swishing a curl in her swaying tail. No, she is not that, for pride has many more lives than the nine they give to a cat. And … Continue reading
Filed under Death to Self, Humility, Random Acts of Poetry
Enchanting Selflessness
For The High Calling book club: Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki Laura Boggess leads our May 9 discussion here. I am not who I was. I remember when I was perfectly happy working … Continue reading
Filed under Body Life, Death to Self, High Calling Book Club
Easter Prerequisite
In shopping malls, men and women wear long fuzzy ears and a bunny mouth fixed in a static grin. Parents and grandparents with their children stand in line for a ten-dollar photo with the Easter Bunny. A shopping woman with … Continue reading
Filed under Death to Self, Easter
Wounded Help (or What to Give Up When I Fast)
The one who frees prisoners, who frees the oppressed, who lightens burdens, who clothes the needy, who feeds the hungry, who helps the troubled, is himself wounded and in need of protection. Weakness neither disqualifies nor exempts me from service. … Continue reading
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