Travis

“Sherry Turkle describes the way texting and online chatting have threatened true friendship because they allow us to plan and curate the versions of ourselves that we bring to our discussions. When we’re removed from facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice, and when we have time to consider and edit our replies, we don’t face the risk that face-to-face conversation naturally brings. So we don’t risk being known as someone less than perfect.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“You’ve got to release the world; you’ve got to release people, crises, trauma, intrigue, all of it. There has to be sometime in your day where you just let it all go. All the tragedy of the world, the heartbreak, the latest shooting, earthquake—the soul was never meant to endure this. The soul was never meant to inhabit a world like this. It’s way too much. Your soul is finite. You cannot carry the sorrows of the world. Only God can do that. Only he is infinite. Somewhere, sometime in your day, you’ve just got to release it. You’ve got to let it go. .”
― John Eldredge, Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times

“the ever-outraged and always-offended tone of mainstream news sources is making us numb to the world’s pain. When everything is a crisis, nothing is.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“Opening the household table on a regular basis creates an undercurrent of the Christian life that mimics the adoption ethic.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction