Advent Conspiracy

A Case For Utopia

The world would be better off
if people tried to become better.
And people would become better
if they stopped trying to become better off.
For when everybody tries to become
better off,
nobody is better off.
But when everybody tries to become better,
everybody is better off.
Everybody would be rich
if nobody tried to become richer.
And nobody would be poor
if everybody tried to be the poorest.
And everybody would be what he ought
to be
if everybody tried to be
what be wants the other fellow to be.

-from A Case For Utopia by Peter Maurin

Focus

Swiped this from a friend's blog:

"We need a focus. A main thing. Something bigger than skin cream or tennis shoes that reminds us of the purpose of it all. If we expect to regain a more simple heart, a more centered pace for our day, we need to order our lives in specific ways."

Walk Humbly

What does it look like, in our day to day, to walk humbly with God? Isn't this more than simply acknowledging that God knows best and actually living according to that belief?

From Donald Miller

When we've never met people, we are easily manipulated into demonizing them. We are easily made to fear.