Boredom’s Cynic
A Poem about the State of global Youth Ministry (2024)
What is younger than growing old?
See how only the young can revolt?
The young of old tire of pretending.
So what are you going to do about it?
-Ashley Denton (November 2024)
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway
“I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.” – Jim Elliot
Hardly anything lives on the mountaintop because the environment is too harsh for creatures to thrive. Life is lived in the valley, but times of perspective on the mountain are designed to carve landmarks of perspective into our memory, which can fuel new hope as we journey in the valleys below.
“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery