We are not built for waiting. Everything around us is designed to remove it. Same-day delivery, instant messaging, on-demand everything. We have engineered friction out of modern life so thoroughly that a thirty-second wait for a webpage feels like an imposition. And...
We check our social and news feeds because something in us is forever asking, “what is happening?” We have built a culture that rewards the question and ignores the answer. A culture that can never be still long enough to be satisfied will always be...
There’s a moment from my childhood I’ve never forgotten. I was about nine, and my family rented our first colour television set from Radio Rentals. Hardly anyone bought a set outright back then. They were expensive and unreliable, so you rented, and when...
Most of us spend a great deal of our lives trying to be understood. We choose our words carefully. We rephrase when we sense we’ve been misread. We come back to old conversations hoping that this time, with a clearer explanation, the picture will finally come...
In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published the law of gravity. It’s been revised by Einstein and refined since, but the underlying principle has held. Step off a roof, you fall. The law doesn’t care whether you believe in it. The biblical writers, long before...
One of the most quoted lines in English spiritual writing comes from a fourteenth-century woman most people couldn’t tell you very much about. All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. It appears on greeting cards, fridge...
