I thought I felt you draw closer, and my heart sank. You looked at me a little longer as I stood there thinking of what else to say. I make up these scenes in my head, I thought you’d ask me to spend your time. But you’re probably not thinking anything of it like me.
Well, just so you know, I’d say yes.
… because, you know, we could dance all the time, through the hardest of times, I would teach that to my children; that there’s always a reason to celebrate. And we would live an everyday adventure of wild escapes, exploring the traditional way of living; we’d shower in rivers and creeks, me and you, we’d swim under the moon. We’d climb trees for fruit and grow our own garden, of every fruit and flower, and spend our days in dirt creating something beautiful. By fires dancing and dressed up dinners, sharing meals and loving neighbours, ‘Come feast at our table’, would be our banner. We would have a large wooden old table where we’d sit and linger all night, laughing and telling stories or crying and mending hearts; whatever it was. And we’d make a collection of all the shells and treasures we would find along different coastlines and place them on display. We would write story after story and invite others into the well we would create, me and you, we would create a culture and traditions throughout our years that we would give away. We would catch the early sun bringing joy to our day and the sunset turning everything to green and gold. We’d have time to take it all in. We could marvel under the trees, watching the birds and clouds change shape. We could build treehouses and pizza ovens and chicken pens, whatever you liked.
… And when the night turned still, me and you would dance once more on the kitchen floor –– right to left, we would fall in love again, and again. Looking out the window; we would have built all this. And holding each other became the only familiar over the years, to go through all the uncertain times. This is all we needed, right here.
“Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.”
— Frank Pittman
“Love is not afraid.
Love does not seek to protect itself.
Love is outrageous.
It gives all for others.”
— The God Shaped Brain, Timothy R. Jennings
“First, you admit that there is a problem. Second, you admit that you have something to learn. The third thing you do is to ask for revelation of the thing that you need to learn. And maybe you open yourself up to receipt of that in dialogue with someone else, but it is also something that can make itself manifest within. You might say, “Well, you thought that up.” That is not really how it works. You ask the question and if you are extraordinarily fortunate — maybe that means you were on your knees with sufficient intensity — a redemptive answer will make itself manifest, and that is the offering up, the sacrificial offering up, and the descent of something like the unifying spirit, practically speaking.”
— Dr Jordan Peterson
“Why Marriage Is The Highest Form Of Play
What are you sacrificing to get married? Well, let’s think about it: What are you sacrificing? Foolish, juvenile, shortsighted, hedonistic, nihilist, cynical, psychopathic, impulsive promiscuity — that is what you are sacrificing. You might want to sacrifice that because that sounds like a pretty decent collection of demons, and you probably do not want that cluttering up your life. What? You are going to be Peter Pan? King of the Lost Boys? You are never going to grow up? What grows you up? Responsibility. Sacrifice. A vision of the future.”
— Dr Jordan Peterson
“When we look back on our lives, what we will remember are the crazy things we did, the times we worked harder to make a day stand out.”
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years
“We don’t need to call everything we do “ministry” anymore either. Just call it Tuesday. That’s what people who are becoming love do.”
— Bob Goff (Everybody, Always)
“Find what the people you love want to do and then go be with them in it. If Adam wanted to make pizzas, I’d grow the tomatoes. Be with each other.”
— Bob Goff (Everybody. Always)
“If the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.
“If we want a kingdom then we start the way grace did, by drawing a circle around everyone and saying they’re in.”
— Bob Goff (Everybody, Always)
“When joy is a habit, love is a reflex.”
— Bob Goff (Everybody, Always)
Do You Really Want a Safe Place?
Is that what you want?
You want to be so weak that you are protected from threats? What the hell kind of life is that? You are a paralyzed rabbit in a hole. That is no life for a human being.
You should be confronting danger and the unknown and malevolence. The reason for that is: The solution to the problem of tragedy and malevolence is the willingness to face them now.
Who the hell would ever guess that? It is a completely paradoxical suggestion. Well, why does it work? Because the more you confront the two of them, the more you grow, and maybe you can grow so that you are actually larger than the chaos and malevolence itself.
— Dr. Jordan Peterson
“It was a tender reminder that if we are willing to show up, God will Provide us what we need and someone to share it with.”
— Bob Goff
“There is nothing more practical than developing a vision. It’s not a pie in the sky exercise. Without a vision you’re chaotic and fragmented and hopeless and disappointed and someone can stop you just by putting up a single obstacle. You’re a house divided among itself. You have no forward movement, you’re not enthusiastic, and thats to be filled with the Spirit of God, by the way. Your life is a sequence of disappointments, frustrations and tragedies, and you’re a leaf blowing in the wind, and that is not what you’re called to be. You’re called to be a visionary constructer of the paradisal vision. Really, that’s who you are. Terrible as that is to apprehend. We already will lose everything we have to lose, we’re all in this game.”
— Dr. Jordan Peterson
“Specify your goals because how are you going to hit something if you don’t know what it is. People often won’t specify their goals because they don’t like to specify conditions for failure. So you keep yourself all vague and foggy, which is really easy because that’s just a matter of not doing. Then you don’t know when you have failed.”
— Dr. Jordan Peterson
“You are not supposed to stay a child. You’re supposed to become one. That’s a whole different thing.”
— Dr. Jordan Peterson