Two graphics from the book which I found helpful:
Tag Archives: Relationships
10 Ways We Can Be Kinder To One Another
We live in a world that has so many good people who do amazing things for others. As we all know too well, we also live in a world of darkness and pure evil…Sometimes, it’s just overwhelming…By resolving to be kinder to one another, we can have a big impact…In much of society, we’ve extinguished the lights in how we go about our daily routines. You know the light I’m talking about: doing something kind for someone else or being supportive of someone who needs it or just being a friendly face in a dark crowd.
– Paul Jankowski
We can all be kinder to each other and bravo to Paul Jankowski for this lovely reminder of the practicalities of being a kinder species.
Full article here.
Filed under The Desired Life
Love stands in the middle
Our temptation is to stay on the outside.
To be Etic but not Emic. To attend endless conferences, read endless books, buy endless t-shirts. To dump cold water on our heads, take a selfie and hashtag it. To be about the latest ideas, like those on Mars Hill, to be waiting to see something new, like the newest post or picture online.
Ideas, when used this way, can be very self-indulgent. All the while, we remain outside the issue, and quite possibly, outside of our own story. But the great ideas – love, justice, intimacy, reconciliation – require something of us.
The people I see changing the world are doing it quietly.
– John Sowers
When I worked in Cairo, I was surrounded by good people with good intentions for the people living there. They had great ideas, great passion, but wha tmany of them couldn’t stand it seemed, was getting their hands dirty in order to see ideas and passions have an impact on people.
This article by John Sowers excellently sums up the situation we all face. If we want to have a tangible impact on the world we cannot ignore relationships. Relationships are the context in which the world can be changed for the better.
Sometimes the ideas we have aren’t actually that great or useful to the world. The positive impact on people’s lives is the measure and the test of a good idea.
To paraphrase an often quoted verse from the Bible, “If we do not have love, we are nothing but a loud noise”.
Filed under Musings
Thoughts of an average dogsbody 