Tags: self

• self, pain & lewis

  ‘All this flashy rhetoric about loving you. I never had a selfless thought since I was born. I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through; I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn. Peace, reassurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek, I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin: I talk of love – a scholar’s parrot may talk Greek – But, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin. Only that now you have taught me (but [...]

• shadows and self

  A man called Isaac grows and lives in a small village. He works hard on his farm, rising with the sun and tending the garden God gave him, tilling the rich brown earth. Rains come and water the green growth and plumps the ripening fruit. Life is good. Next door lives his great friend Joseph. In the evenings they sit in the light of the harvest moon and share their hopes and dreams. They drink toasts to the future and [...]

• 25 lesser known things….

  A ’25 Random Things’ meme has been circulating about and I’ve finally got around to writing my own. Figured I’d post it here and I’ve invited the challenge of friends near and far…… and yes it’s a little unnerving how geeky I really can be!! Anyway, here goes: 1. I usually have about an average of ten windows open on my Mac, and yes there are often multiple tabs on each – just to confirm i’m not an intelligent man, [...]