Thanks Heather @Pageturner1 for the tag. The obvious one is reading, but also leading circle time, being wrong, listening, spotlighting others, teaching, apologies, phonics, mothering and logic/brain teaser puzzles. @Eggs
If you haven‘t played consider yourself tagged.
so-soI couldn‘t get into this one. I looked into the topic because of personal interest and thought this would be a helpful resource. It just never landed for me. There were some helpful pieces but overall it felt choppy and meandering.
"If the #essence of freedom were merely the act of choice, then the mere fact of making choices would perfect our freedom.” --Thomas Merton. #InQuotes
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The dog and the cat are helping me read today.
You would think this was written today.. I guess some things never change.
pickThis volume I read from this series was about Flannery O‘Connor. Here is the link to my gr review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4349718102?book_show_action=false&from_rev...
pickThomas Merton strikes right through you, he shatters and breaks apart the self deception of our ego. Time after time during reading this I felt as if my ego had no where to hide and it had to stand trial. But Thomas Merton refused to be the judge and would hold no court.Thomas Merton shows that this experience is not to be judged but observed and understood for what it is.It seems to me that “Thinking” gets in the way of “Living” .
This book ! Thomas Merton is just laying waste to all my preconceived notions. He is laying an axe to the root of a dead tree!
“On the other hand, when you use the expression to "desire God" you implicitly reduce God to the status of an "object" or of a "thing," as if He were "something" that could be grasped and possessed the way we possess riches, or knowledge, or some other created entity. “……”In so doing, we tend inevitably to distort and even to dese crate His holy and infinite truth. “
