Degrees in Idealism

exploring how we would live if we truly believed life was meaningful

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Regarding Baby

12.18.2012 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

I’ve always had a hard time praying. I’ve been told: just talk to God. Talk about your day, your likes, your dislikes, your feelings. He wants to know all of that, so tell him! This always bothered me. Not that I didn’t believe God wanted to know all that. But simply because it made no […]

Categories // Family, Soul Tags // #babies, #faith, #God, #pregnancy

First

12.01.2012 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

After years of procrastination, I had finally started my blog and the first post was perfect. Everything made sense, while flowing eloquently and beautifully. I was proud of it, and wasn’t overcome with my usual frustration about something subtle with the tone, or the ending, or the whole topic itself that would cause me to […]

Categories // Beauty, Soul Tags // #art, #fulfillment, #purpose, #writer

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About Me

I'm Elizabeth. I'm a wife, a mother to three little boys, a writer, and a lover and seeker of the beautiful, the true, and the good. I am a believer in idealism-- that even amidst the chaos and the confusion, the exhaustion and the sadness of life there is always joy to be found, hope to be clung to, and a better path to be taken. I write my thoughts on this blog. A link to my fiction book is at the bottom of the page.

About The Name

“There are degrees in idealism. We learn first to play with it academically, as the magnet was once a toy. Then we see in the heyday of youth and poetry that it may be true, that it is true in gleams and fragments. Then, its countenance waxes stern and grand, and we see that it must be true.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I found this quote well described my own experience– consistently reworking my idealism, being surprised by it, sometimes even losing it only to discover it all the more fully. I know we will never find all the answers, but how thrilling it is to find ourselves getting a little closer to the source and summit of things, a little closer, as we work our way through the “degrees.”

sons of God

sons of God

A short novella in which Lucifer talks about his dad.

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