Friday’s Poetic Pause: “For One Who Holds Power” by John O’Donohue – How Matters
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Friday’s Poetic Pause: “For One Who Holds Power” by John O’Donohue – How Matters
I’m not a person who is political in the usual sense of that word, but I think that we all feel that we’re not enough to make a difference, that we need to be more somehow, wealthier or more educated or otherwise different than the people we are. And according to this story, we are exactly what’s needed. And to just wonder about that a little: what
... See moreone thing the language of “changing the world” usually lacks: humility, defined not so much as bashfulness about our own abilities as awed and quiet confidence in God’s ability. Is the Maker of the world still at work “changing the world”? If so, what are the patterns of his activity, and what would it mean to join him in what he is doing in every
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