If my years as a counselor have taught me anything, it’s that there is much more to every human being than we can possibly know. However intimate a confidential disclosure may be, there is always more. More stories. More pain. And more joy. Every human being is a wonder, “unique and unrepeatable,” an unfathomable world … Continue reading The Life of Chuck: Pathos & Poetry Meet Dark, Existential Wonder
Tag: William Butler Yeats
Don’t Fear the Forge: In Which The Benedict Option Mingles with a Rock Book and a Yeats Poem
While immersed in Rod Dreher's much-discussed The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation a few weeks ago, a children's book startled me with a hopeful connection. My son's kids had come to visit and I'd turned to reading nature books with them, but as we read and baked and played and … Continue reading Don’t Fear the Forge: In Which The Benedict Option Mingles with a Rock Book and a Yeats Poem


