Bernard’s Four Degrees Of Love Love Of Self For Self’s Sake Love Of God For Self’s Sake Love Of God For God’s Sake Love Of Self For God’s Sake When we can rejoice in God, and rejoice in ourselves, we have come into the fullness
I just returned from a one-day, round trip flight to Pennsylvania for my great uncle Ben’s funeral. He had asked that I would sing at his service, so despite my classes and work, I wasn’t going to miss it. He was a great man —
Anthropologists have discovered in all rites of passage that there are three stages of process: Separation: Leaving the familiar, the exodus Liminality: A marginal stage, limbo, tension, shaping, regular rules don’t apply, the wilderness (from liminus, meaning threshhold) Re-Incorporation: Re-joining a community, crossing a threshold,
FROM LEWIS, A GRIEF OBSERVED He first published it under another name, so as not to hurt anyone who loved his writing. The response to it changed his mind. “You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears…” “The time where there
