So I haven´t been to church since Easter Sunday... It´s a little new for me...missing church for multiple weeks... Even so, I´m not sure that it has been all that detrimental to my spiritual health. Maybe this is a reflection of how much (or rather how little) I value church... Maybe I feel I can get by without it...
Anyway, I leave you with some inspiring resolutions by Clyde Kilby:
1) At least once every day I shall look steadily up at the sky and remember that I, a consciousness with a conscience, am on a planet traveling in space with wonderfully mysterious things above and about me.
2) I shall sometimes look back at the freshness of vision I had in childhood and try, at least for a while, to be, in the words of Lewis Carroll, the ¨child of the pure unclouded brow, and dreaming eyes of wonder.¨
3) I shall not fall into the falsehood that this day, or any day, is merely another ambiguous and plodding twenty-four hours, but rather a unique event, filled, if I so wish, with worthy potentialities. I shall not be fool enough to suppose that trouble and pain are wholly evil parentheses in my existence but, just as likely, ladders to be climbed toward moral and spiritual manhood.
4) I shall not demean my own uniqueness by envy of others. I shall stop boring into myself to discover what psychological or social categories I might belong to. Mostly I shall simply forget about myself and do my work.
5) I shall not allow the devilish onrush of this century to usurp all my energies but will instead, as Charles Williams suggested, ¨fulfill the moment as the moment.¨ I shall try to live well just now because the only time that exists is now.
Hahaha... I haven´t told you anything about my experiences here at all... Maybe some other time...
Anyway, I leave you with some inspiring resolutions by Clyde Kilby:
1) At least once every day I shall look steadily up at the sky and remember that I, a consciousness with a conscience, am on a planet traveling in space with wonderfully mysterious things above and about me.
2) I shall sometimes look back at the freshness of vision I had in childhood and try, at least for a while, to be, in the words of Lewis Carroll, the ¨child of the pure unclouded brow, and dreaming eyes of wonder.¨
3) I shall not fall into the falsehood that this day, or any day, is merely another ambiguous and plodding twenty-four hours, but rather a unique event, filled, if I so wish, with worthy potentialities. I shall not be fool enough to suppose that trouble and pain are wholly evil parentheses in my existence but, just as likely, ladders to be climbed toward moral and spiritual manhood.
4) I shall not demean my own uniqueness by envy of others. I shall stop boring into myself to discover what psychological or social categories I might belong to. Mostly I shall simply forget about myself and do my work.
5) I shall not allow the devilish onrush of this century to usurp all my energies but will instead, as Charles Williams suggested, ¨fulfill the moment as the moment.¨ I shall try to live well just now because the only time that exists is now.
Hahaha... I haven´t told you anything about my experiences here at all... Maybe some other time...