We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
02593 – Peace vs. Killing Children
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02073 – Learning to Love as Jesus Loved
Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity...
01712 – Walking Mindfully
Whether we can wake up or not depends on whether we can walk mindfully on our Mother Earth. The future of all life, including our own, depends on our mindful steps. We have to hear the bells of mindfulness that are sounding all across our planet. We have to start...
01687 – We All Make Mistakes
Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. from Anne of Avonlea
01682 – If You Look Back…
If you look back only at your mistakes, you'd think you were an idiot. If you look back only at your wiser choices, you'd think you were infallible. But if you look back on everything, you realize you're a human being who has been through a lot, grown a lot, is always...
01641 – Stories Challenge Us
One thing healthy religion does is challenge us. I don’t mean the strident castigations of the street preacher or even the social justice rally-er. Great traditions excel at the soft challenge, the friendly nudge, issued predominantly through the mode of story....
01505 – Play is Serious Learning
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
01342 – Sad? Learn Something!
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn..."is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may...
00300 – Don’t Just Fail; Learn from Failure
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
00064 – Learning How to Love
In the light of eternity, we’re here for a very short time, really. We’re here for one thing, ultimately: to learn how to love, because God is love. Love is our origin, love is our ground, and love is our destiny.