A little chaos is good for the soul
John Whittemore
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Physician and Writer. You may know me from Twitter @John_Whittemore
My novel “The Making Of The World” is represented by Talcott-Notch Literary Agency.
The biggest trick the devil ever pulled was assuring us we could change the world.
We can only change ourselves.
We bragged on our sins
…and then wondered why we hurt all the people we ever loved.
Living a life is much harder than it looks
Living a life is much harder than it looks
We are always dying and being born again
Please count me out
Will killing our fellow human beings really make it better?
The sweetest ache is knowing you hold something beautiful, even as it slips through your fingers...
The worse the world gets, the more and more thankful I am that she is in it
The only war that we should be pursuing is the war with our own inner shadows.
"Don't plant me inside your heart. I'd outgrow you."
-Rilke
The hope of Resurrection
I think my soul is tired
Most Americans who reject Christianity do so not because Jesus is intolerable, but because Jesus has become intolerable to American Christians.
We have replaced Jesus Christ with a golden calf of cruel ideology that is the opposite of his teachings.
Shame on us.
We should be rejected.
We should repent.
City backyard farming! New additions to the henhouse once they are older.
Because Jesus has passed through death and returned as life itself our story cannot end in death and darkness.
Frailty will break us. Despair will overwhelm us. Death will swallow us.
…but this is cannot the end of any soul’s story because resurrection has come into the world.
Last night I had a dream that I was in a cavern in which time passes differently in each place, and I was digging to find a place where time would not pass so quickly.
I imagine this is the kind of dream one can only have in the second half of a lifetime.
You find much greater pleasure in life once you realize that a pleasurable life isn’t the goal of living…
The best response to the loud, cruel stupidity of our world will always be the quiet, calm resolve to love our neighbor as ourselves despite everything