Author: Tim
-
Bluebird box and cows (colored pencil)
Bluebird box and cows Originally uploaded by Timothyone Colored pencil, 15 X 18
-
Flannery O’Connor: “…stifled with all deliberate speed…”
“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. …Now in every writing class you find people who care nothing for writing, because they think they are…
-
Flannery O’Connor: “…the devil has been the unwilling instrument of grace.”
“From my own experience in trying to make stories “work”, I have discovered that what is needed is an action that is totally unexpected, yet totally believable, and I have found that, for me, this is always an action which indicates that grace has been offered. And frequently it is an action in which the…
-
Flannery O’Connor: “…too stupid to enter the past…”
“Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning…our children are too stupid now to enter the past imaginatively. “ Flannery O’Connor, Total Effect and the Eighth Grade
-
Flannery O’Connor: “the Price of Restoration”
“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of…
-
Eugene Peterson: “…God is doing something before I know it.”
“The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know it. So the task is not to get God to do something I think needs to be done, but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can respond to it and participate and take delight in it.”…
-
The Protestant Neurosis
Today we heard in church that “our significance is based not on what do or are, but on the fact that God loves us.” That we have “a forgiveness-based relationship with God, not a performance based relationship”. This is the decision that created Protestantism. And our churches spend enormous amounts of energy reminding ourselves…
