30 Things I love.

Cardus (formerly the Work Research Foundation) is a really cool think tank in Canada (the kind of think tank that I would love to work for). Their deal is: “to influence people to a Christian view of work and public life. We seek to explore and unfold the dignity of work, the meaning of economics, and the structures of civil society, in the context of underlying patterns created by God.” I love this stuff.

WRF has a worldview magazine, Comment, which is edited by Gideon Strauss. I have heard Strauss speak at my school more than once and he can explain worldview better than most. He is also really into talking about what you love.

Gideon Strauss believes that if one reflects on the things one loves, they will begin to know themselves more completely, as well as forge deeper commitments to the things they know they ought to love. In the spirit of Strauss’ Comment and ’50 things I love about…,’ I intend to make a weekly list of ’30 things I love about…’ on various subjects, with little explanations why.

Without further delay, 30 things I love (in General):

1. My Wife – To have someone to walk with day in and day out, to support, praise, and humble me, is truly a blessing.
2. Dutch King Mints – Those mints are heaven in candy. Keeps you awake in church too.
3. Le Moulin de la Galette by Renoir – the hustle and bustle of this work, the colours, the composition – I feel longing for something just beyond reach, whenever I see this painting.
4. The internet – I can communicate instantaneously with almost anyone in the world, how doesn’t that change our entire world?
5. The Fantastic – to believe in unicorns is to believe in the secrets of our world.
6. The incarnation of Christ – to know that God could be justl like me gives me hope that I could be even a little more like him.
7. Clocks – I love how people decorate time
8. Modern Design – very postmodern, very eclectic, very me.
9. Aerosol (Graffiti) Art – the art of a revolution
10. lamp design – I love how people decorate light
11. Canadian Freedoms – Thank you Lord for my freedom to be what most can’t: a dissident to the majority.
12. Warm Banana loaf – this is an easy one.
13. My Toronto Friends – It is good to have friends journeying right beside you in your education
14. My London Friends – it is good to have friends that keep you grounded in where you came from
15. The feel of hair waxes and putties
16. A warm sweater on a brisk night
17. Mini-Golf
18. Wales.
19. England.
20. Walking low-tide on an Atlantic beach
21. Anglican Liturgy
22. Contemplative Worship
23. The Mystery of the Trinity
24. Communion with the Trinity through the Eucharist
25. The Hope of the numberless multitudes
26. A risen Messiah
27. Prayer beads
28. The depth of the Scriptures
29. A history of radical love and discipline
30. A hope in a life eternal.

WK

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This entry was written by Will, posted on October 15, 2008 at 1:00 am, filed under Things I love and tagged 30 things I love, Comment, Strauss, WRF. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.