Tag: dailyprompt
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Anything that ended with “man”!
Fireman, policeman. I guess they are the only things I knew of that ended with ‘man’, and I only said it because that’s what the neighbours said. Then I wanted to be a pastor. I remember kneeling by my bed and having a serious talk with God about it. I finished the prayer with a…
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Emergency Mode v.s. Routine Mode
In Emergency Mode, you’re rarely able to say “no” to anything, because all your resources are focused on merely staying alive. You lurch from one crisis to the next. It’s in Routine Mode that you are able to set goals that go beyond survival. You can plan ahead and look at your purpose. I am…
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No, because the human spirit is not ‘natural’.
The ‘natural’ world follows rules, described by physics and chemistry. Biology follows these rules; apple seeds grow apple trees. The human spirit is not ‘natural’, but it resides inside a ‘natural’ body. The spirit is designed to be free and to act on the natural world. (This is what creativity is all about, and a…
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The Wilderness
It’s funny. You’d think being in the wilderness, unemployed, with no idea what is happening next is the most horrible place to be. But there’s something peaceful about it, and when my time in the wilderness was over, it was with reluctance that I said goodbye.
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