Spilled Coffee on Ancient Scrolls
Finding Ways to Live as Humans Fully Alive
God created the day AND the night. The light AND the darkness. He then created a balance or a rhythm between the two. A dance if you will. And in the grand scheme of things, this is a good thing. How can you truly know happiness if you’ve never been sad?
Think about that for a moment. The unconscious heaving of your chest right now had its beginning with the breath God. And when it was expelled from his throat a long time ago, life exploded into the universe. In other words, the simple act of breathing is powerful stuff. And it demands that we do something with it. Something extraordinary.
When despair for the world grows in me, there are many things I turn to for healing and hope. Wendell Berry is one of them.
Spilled Coffee on Ancient Scrolls 