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I relate so much to this from Tim Challies on words.
I love words. Words are like molten glass, raw material just waiting to be gathered, to be rolled and blown upon, to be formed and contoured, to be transformed to a finished work of art.
Words are the very best kind of raw material. Words are my favorite art form and I indulge my passion with these amateurish attempts to imitate the true artisans. But the greater joy by far is reading a great book.
"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man." Ben Franklin
— Darrin Patrick (@darrinpatrick) January 1, 2015
This is an important mantra for any builder of anything and Breaking Bad director Michelle MacLaren is definitely a builder of things.
MacLaren loves math, sports, games, and puzzles, and sees elements of all of them in filmmaking. “I approach an action sequence almost like a mathematical problem,” MacLaren says. (Vulture)
Living, or walking for the glory of God, in a way worthy of God, is the goal — but the crucial piece that connects the reading to the walking is believing. That is what Paul means when he says that we walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). We learn the path of what is in Christ by seeing Christ and treasuring him. (Desiring God)
We talk so much about the separate activities of reading about our faith and then living it out but the connecting piece — the believing in the thing so deeply that we have no other choice than to be governed by what we read — is paramount.
And often skipped over.
Some people collect coins and baseball cards. I collect other people’s thoughts. (Lit)
I loved this quote. I thought it was profound and yet a thing I want to be about. A thing I am about but didn’t know how to put into words.
“The devil damns with one weapon: unforgiven sin. If he can accuse us in God’s court successfully and get a guilty verdict, we are damned.” (Desiring God)
I’m reading an amazing book right now called Lit by Desiring God editor Tony Reinke and in it he quoted CS Lewis on the discipline of reading.
For many of us, reading is more a lack of of desire than of a lack of free time. C. S. Lewis wrote, “The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.” The same is true of reading. Favorable conditions for reading books never come.
I hope to be someone who always wants knowledge “so badly.”
I’m not sure if this is great life advice but I think it is for when you’re playing golf.
“If you finish strong, it will heal almost any bet, save nearly any round, make you leave the course with a smile. Take pride in how you get to the finish line. Let your ego come out. Remember, stars close the show.”
I love this podcast with Reihan Salam where he talks about sports in America:
“[] says that one of the reasons he finds sports so compelling is that professional sports is how Americans talk about commerce, race, power — it’s how they talk about so many things.”
Ira Glass (photo via WBEZ)
I’m a big Ira Glass fan so I was stoked to see him go on Alex Baldwin’s podcast recently to discuss his craft. The two discussed myriad things but the conversation early on turned to religion.
Glass had some interesting thoughts on how the media was covering Christians compared to what he wanted This American Life to do.
“My feeling is the way people who were religious were covered is they would be these cartoon characters. These right wing, inflexible…doctrine error in their beliefs.
“When I compared that to the actual Christians who were in my life…they were super thoughtful and way more compassionate and the way they lived their religion was radically different from what I was seeing.”
