It takes a certain risk to live a smaller life, a risk to trust that, in turning away from the vast horizon of ambient digital noise, we are not missing out on the essential, which is always right in front of us, in the next step.
My goodness, what a timely reminder. The resistance required to swim against the frenetic current telling us to churn out content and push to grow big is very hard to remember and sustain.
I need to do some unsubscribing. But also treat Substack like a magazine. I read some articles but not others. Stephen Freeman’s essay above is a good word to take eyes off politics,
It takes a certain risk to live a smaller life, a risk to trust that, in turning away from the vast horizon of ambient digital noise, we are not missing out on the essential, which is always right in front of us, in the next step.
My goodness, what a timely reminder. The resistance required to swim against the frenetic current telling us to churn out content and push to grow big is very hard to remember and sustain.
This might also speak: https://glory2godforallthings.com/2025/05/14/when-america-got-sick-2/
Whoa, good stuff! May we ever more greatly behold, not just see.
I need to do some unsubscribing. But also treat Substack like a magazine. I read some articles but not others. Stephen Freeman’s essay above is a good word to take eyes off politics,
In Theosis you know GOD intimately and behold HIM in HIS creation.
The greatest beholding you can do is to behold as GOD beholds . In Theosis you behold as GOD beholds.