My feed reader today featured two posts heralding the release of Figgy Pudding Spam as a limited seasonal special edition. Despite the promise of including “cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, and cloves as well as fig and orange” I have not the slightest desire to try it. Who would? It’s hard enough bringing myself to use …
This rabbit was just passing through the church car park this afternoon.
“Burnout describes the emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress. It manifests as restlessness, procrastination, apathy, and low-level persistent unhappiness.” One of the paradoxes that arises from David Zahl’s description of the contemporary anthropology that gives rise to perfectionism and its fruit – burnout, anxiety, depression – is that the Church’s anthropology which …
I’ve got to start reading David Zahl’s Low Anthropology. The more grounded our view of human nature, the more empathetic and compassionate we can be toward others (and ourselves).
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