Phil Aud retweeted
Love your kid.
No matter how you differ. Love your kid.
Tell them you do.
Show them you do.
Make sure they know,
even when you don’t love their choices,
even when they don’t share your convictions,
that you love them
and you are there for them.
Right there for them.
Phil Aud retweeted
If you like THE BEAR (FX/Hulu), you’ll like THIN BLUE SMOKE.
Thin Blue Smoke: A Novel About Music, Food, and Love a.co/d/eNIvoNF
Phil Aud retweeted
Fascinating thought from @philaud about the tree that bore Jesus:
“Perhaps we have cursed where we should have blessed. Perhaps your desire, tree, was not to torture – that was our desire! – but to hold. If so, blessed are you among trees!” – at Kansas City, MO
Phil Aud retweeted
After all the years I have spent in the work of pastoral care, I have had to accept that growing up for most of us takes a great deal of time. It isn't easy to let go of our psychological projections of how we want things to be with others, ourself, and the world.
Phil Aud retweeted
The ideal world and the real world are indeed "worlds apart". How long it takes us to let go of our fantasies about the ideal and accept the "real" is about growing up and maturing. Sometimes for some, that happens much later in life rather than sooner.
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The signs of poor vetting of sources:
Offering our opinions yet rarely checking the reliability of those sources
Claiming "evidence" when the information is not peer-reviewed
Never critiquing our own personal knowing
Our emotional tone is loaded with bias and emotion.
Phil Aud retweeted
Descartes claimed, “I think therefore I am”.
Nicholas of Cusa claimed, “I am because You (the Triune God) regard me!”
Phil Aud retweeted
The wait is almost over! Join us on the 14th for an introduction by Robi Botos for our Oscar Peterson Jazz Artist-in-Residence. Don't miss out on this sought-after musician and composer. Robi will deliver workshops until 16th!
events.yorku.ca/events/oscar…
@robibotos @YorkuAMPD
Phil Aud retweeted
“Anger yes, hatred no, because if anger touched hatred, I would be poisoned by death himself and become trapped in an addiction that few have been able to escape.”
Willie James Jennings
ALT Quote: I felt the struggle, the old struggle to keep the anger from touching hatred. My faith—no, Jesus himself—was the wall that kept the anger safe from hatred. Anger yes, hatred no, because if anger touched hatred, I would be poisoned by death himself and become trapped in an addiction that few have been able to escape. Willie James Jennings
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Relationships are destroyed by attempting to read someone else's mind. Relationships are built by empathy and rapport; by being present, deep listening, and paying attention to the feelings of others and how they are expressed and embodied.
Phil Aud retweeted
Have you ever seen a bottle of Angostura bitters and wondered why the label looks too big? (1/...)
Phil Aud retweeted
As a pastor I found it deeply problematic to hear some pastors talk about the "production quality" of the Sunday morning gathering. This is consumerism and idolatry at its absolute worst.