2 results for tag: Goodness

Wild Geese – Stuart Segall

Editor’s note: photo above is of Trumpeter Swans, not Wild Geese, but … close enough. You “get” the picture!! Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert. repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. . Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. . Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the ...

That I Would Be Good – Brad Jersak

Socrates - What is the good life? What is the good life?  How can I be good person? These were the questions that Socrates asked in Plato's dialogues, 300 years before Christ. Being good mattered to him. He wanted to know what being good looked like and how to become that kind of person.  His own conclusion was that the good life was to live virtuously -- that is, according to the ancient virtues of prudence [wisdom in action], justice, temperance [i.e. self-control] and courage. Not bad, I'd say. The world would no doubt be a much better place if we all lived by such standards.  You get similar lists in the Scriptures as ...