Author: clfuu

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”
–Franklin D. Roosevelt

What does economic progress look like to you?

Somewhere on the other side of abundance lives gluttony, a state in which we grab all that we can in a frenzy of desire, out of touch with what we really need, with what would truly make us feel satisfied.

What helps you to get in touch with your genuine needs in the moments when gluttony threatens to overtake you?

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in each year.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What practice gives you a sense of renewal?

“…Love should
grow up like a wild iris, but doesn’t, it comes from
the midst of everything else, sees like the iris
of an eye, when the light is right,
feels in blindness and when there is nothing else is
tender, blinks, and opens
face up to the skies. “
—Susan Griffin

What opens your eyes to love?

“When practiced, Sabbath-keeping is an active protest against a culture that is always on, always available and always looking for something else to do.”
―Stephen W. Smith

How do you push back against a 24/7 social media culture?