Sublime

If I do my job right, you are no longer going to look at your business as a product or a service, or even an offer, but instead you’ll look at it as a movement of people you’ve been called to serve.”

Rather, the congregation that is a life-community sees its children as persons. It seeks to be a community that surrounds and carries them, not for some undefined future but in this now, in this broken and yet delightful now. Children gather time. By carrying them, we’re moved deeply into the now.

Eliot Rosewater.

Such was Lydgate’s plan of his future: to do good small work for Middlemarch, and great work for the world. He was certainly a happy fellow at this time: to be seven-and-twenty, without any fixed vices, with a generous resolution that his action should be beneficent, and with ideas in his brain that made life interesting quite apart from the cultus

of Jesus Christ).

(early adopters).