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Connecting the dots, exploring the corners we take for granted. Colouring each section of the canvas with more detail through Conversation. Sharing stories in depth.
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- Aug 2, 202628 min
32. Secure Base - An Alien Model of Marriage
What if we stopped defining partnership as supervision, and instead encouraged our spouse to be all that they can possibly be? What if we were fully responsible for ourselves so that they have the room to do that? What if marriage could make us more of ourselves, and we could continue developing as adults, even influencing and receiving from the world beyond our family? What if expansion doesn't have to stop when we graduate college, and what if marriage wasn't a ball and chain?
- Mar 9, 20264 min
31. Stealing Agency
Who do we feel most loved by?People who empower us and ignite our own capability? Or those who do our work for us?Whether we're talking about our spouse, friends, or children, I don't think it's loving to do anything (repeatedly, long-term) for them that they can do for themselves.Read this article here: https://substack.com/@roadlesstraveledonline/p-190405800
- Jan 1, 20263h 34m
30. Chris Poffenroth and Pilgrim's Progress
Chris tells his story of escaping Canada and sailing solo to Mexico. Plenty of obstacles appeared, dangers threatened, and misadventures occurred, but God provided and rescued at every step along the way.To learn more and support Chris' ministry: https://www.kingdomvoyages.org
- Mar 6, 20258 min
29. Direction Versus Destination
From: https://substack.com/home/post/p-156816900Each and every action has a direction. We need a vision, but it need not be an inflexible blueprint of specific timelines and circumstances.The first step is know yourself. What are you good at, what do you love? What brings you to life, and what opportunities are calling to you? Which lofty ideals, indeed, appealed to you repeatedly since you were young? What do those things feel like, over and above what they might present as?Once we really accept that our individuality is a gift, we can drop the pressure of external expectations, and begin to move in the directionof these aspirations and skills, block time to allow creative inspiration to come to us, and decide whether it’s the gym or the driving range we are going to today.There does, indeed, need to be a pull toward a certain direction, and while we hold that trajectory, we can look down at our feet, be where they are, turn them slightly in the direction of the goal, and do something today that brings us that way.It can be a much more gentle process than we originally thought, in this culture of hurry.
- Mar 6, 202510 min
28. Truth as the Gateway to Adventure
How do we transcend the predictable?From: https://substack.com/home/post/p-157117721Jordan B Peterson: "If you say the truth and nothing else, you will have an immense adventure as a consequence.You will not know what is going to happen to you, but you have to let go of clinging to the outcome. You have to let go.The truth will reveal the world the way it is intended to be revealed. The consequence for you will be that you will have the adventure of your life.The other part of that ethos—which makes perfect sense to me and I cannot see how it can be any other way—is that whatever makes itself manifest as a consequence of the truth is the best possible reality that could be manifest, even if you cannot see it.”
- Jan 30, 20256 min
27. Individuation as the Pathway to Loving Others
Perhaps the only way we ever create the room to love others selflessly, to truly desire their growth and flourishing, is to become radically involved in our own journeys.
- Jan 30, 20256 min
26. Unbelievable
Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights, page 205 paints a beautiful picture of why the word "unbelievable" diminishes the very things we all want to believe more in.
- Jan 20, 20255 min
25. The Red Book, 311
This excerpt from Carl Jung's The Red Book, pages 311-312, explore the idea that striving to see our efforts take shape in the material world bind up the actual power we possess within our minds to remain good, even to be fulfilled at all. Notice the connection between binding up our efforts in material shapes, and the unconscious proclivity to manipulate others and take them into the service of our need for validation. Interestingly, Jung notes that there are many such people desperate to escape their own selves, so we have willing pawns for our scarcity-based formations. Only by integrating, accepting, looking squarely at our propensity for evil and control can we prevent it from overwhelming us or taking others captive.
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