Archive for January, 2008
The Road Not Taken
I don’t think there has ever been a time in my life when I identified more with a piece of literature than I do with this poem right now. Every line has special meaning…
Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long […]
Published by the tattooed poet on January 20th, 2008 tagged Poetry, Quotes, Discipleship | 2 Comments »
Here, O Potter, is Thy Making Stuff!
Tis that I am not good - that is enough
I pry no farther - that is not the way.
Here, O Potter, is thy making stuff!
Set thy wheel going; let it whir and play.
The chips in me, the stones, the straws, the sand,
Cast them out with fine separating hand,
And make a vessel of thy yielding clay.
Stanza […]
Published by the tattooed poet on January 18th, 2008 tagged Spiritual Formation, Poetry, Quotes | Comment now »
Lewis on Originality…
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. …an author should never conceive himself as […]
Published by the tattooed poet on January 17th, 2008 tagged Blogging, Quotes | Comment now »
On Catching Wild Pigs…
There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some foreign exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the […]
Published by the tattooed poet on January 16th, 2008 tagged Politics, America | 3 Comments »
Called to an Original Life
It was Adrian van Kaam in his little book, Envy and Originality who “argues that we are each called to an original life, that the enemy of the original life is envy. The English word “original” comes from the Latin word orire, meaning “to arise.” Life is an inside-out process, a graced emergence. Envy […]
Published by the tattooed poet on January 11th, 2008 tagged Spiritual Formation, Discipleship | Comment now »
Being Ourselves…
“The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become. The more I resist Him and try to live on my own the more I become dominated by my own heredity and upbringing and surroundings and natural desires. In fact, […]