"To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake-even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death that little by little we start to come alive."(F. Buechner "Listening to Your Life" p.22)
One of my favorite books as a kid was "My Side of the Mountain." In it a boy runs away from home and sets up his new life in the Catskill Mountains inside a tree. He lives off the land, adopts a hawk and seems quite content. Who think like us, act like us and look like us. Unfortunately the world is far more complicated and diverse than that.
One of the best ways I've found not to be overwhelmed by the world, yet still engaged in it is to think and talk about what I am for, instead of constantly what I'm against. Our society frames so many conversations in what we're against that it is a wonder anything ever gets done and why we seem stuck. When we think and act on what we can do, not what we want stopped and engage everyone, not just our peers, then the journey of life has greater variety and a real purpose for being.
Blessings,
Ed
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