Degrees in Idealism

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

Baptized Baby

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She turns her head to the stroller, He smells so good! What IS that? My husband and I look at each other like, Where do we begin? Holy oil? chrism? he got baptized today? But really what we want to say is Grace. You’re smelling grace. And grace doesn’t have much to say or do But […]

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“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