hmac | absolute menace, redeemed by Christ crucified • builder @Club_W_Creative • software, style, music, upper cumberland curiosity
Nashville, TN
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Somebody asked me last week why we would "choose" to live on one income when two would be so much easier.
Easier for what, exactly?
The DINK couples I know have beautiful apartments and Sunday brunches. What they usually don't have is anyone depending on them, shaping them, or forcing them to grow up.
Our home is loud. It is expensive in a different way. But every single day it is producing something a bigger paycheck never could: children who know how to read, how to argue well, how to love their neighbor, and how to run a household of their own someday.
Augustine talked about ordo amoris, rightly ordered love. Some things are worth more than money because they were never supposed to be measured in money in the first place.
Which household are you building?
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It is easier than ever to live a comfortable life and harder than ever to live a beautiful one.
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Horten Kirke in Horten, Norway.
Built in 1855, Horten Kirke is a Gothic red brick Lutheran church designed by Christian Heinrich Grosch, one of Norway's most prominent 19th-century architects. It remains an active parish in the Church of Norway.
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"Your universe has meaning. You will seek to understand. You will be energetic, you will be fiery, you will destroy the ugly Home Depot cardboard and foam-core door..."
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Grundtvig's Church in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The church is built from approximately six million hand-laid yellow bricks. It is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark.
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When you become competent, you gain the most underrated privilege: you stop rushing. Rushing is what insecure men do to prove they matter. Competence lets you move slowly, choose better, and stay calm while others panic. The room feels that calm and reads it as authority, because it usually is.
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The constant pumping of music into every public space, every idle second of sport, every supermarket and café, speaks to an underlying sickness, a kind of cultural mental illness. As a society we are allergic to silence, terrified of spending even one second with our own thoughts
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I’m very serious about this. You need to be making your home a beautiful and orderly place. Your home, then your wardrobe, then your yard and garden, then the borders of your place, then your neighborhood, town, state, country. It all radiates outward.
But you can’t think about all that. You can only control your immediate surroundings, where you live and what you wear. This orders your mind - and the way you dress sends signals to everyone who sees you, that you care, that people around them care. That we are fully formed adults whose actions in the world matter.
