tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-86835390127904524 2013-04-09T18:08:14-05:00 TypePad CounselingKevinhttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c652b53ef017eea1e6279970d 2013-04-09T18:08:14-05:00 2013-04-09T18:08:14-05:00

Samuel Johnson's famous assertion that "[n]o man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money," flashed through my mind recently in the midst of a conversation I was having with a lawyer who admired my professional blog, but wondered what kind of cost/benefit analysis I had done regarding client development...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CounselingKevin/~4/HNLJyNp_jHw" height="1" width="1"/>

Kevin Funnell http://www.counselingkevin.com/2013/04/blockhead-blogging.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c652b53ef017c38329671970b 2013-03-29T13:04:29-05:00 2013-03-29T13:04:29-05:00

As we contemplate the Passion of Christ today, I'm struck by how well C. S. Lewis sees the parallel of the desperate end game of Jesus' life and the human condition. His prayers of anguish in the Garden of Gethsemane are unanswered. He turns to the Church he created, and...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CounselingKevin/~4/-L-ISkpTAQ0" height="1" width="1"/>

Kevin Funnell http://www.counselingkevin.com/2013/03/at-the-end-of-the-run.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c652b53ef017c380c56c8970b 2013-03-23T15:38:25-05:00 2013-03-23T15:38:25-05:00

1st Corinthians 13 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CounselingKevin/~4/agyDjLhfw1Y" height="1" width="1"/>

Kevin Funnell http://www.counselingkevin.com/2013/03/the-greatest-of-these.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c652b53ef017c37d3d0b6970b 2013-03-17T21:32:56-05:00 2013-03-17T21:44:10-05:00

First posted seven years ago tonight, on a version of this blog that no longer exists. Another Joyful Niagara of light, for the education of those who've seen a pale grey and mistake it for blackness.. Our little hour,—how swift it flies When poppies flare and lilies smile; How soon...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CounselingKevin/~4/cg4MsMFcOhE" height="1" width="1"/>

Kevin Funnell http://www.counselingkevin.com/2013/03/a-candle-burned-brightly.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c652b53ef017c37c7cbd8970b 2013-03-16T22:22:51-05:00 2013-03-16T22:22:51-05:00

When you are in love, you dream about the person you love. After ten, twenty, thirty, or forty years, the dreams are so clear and real they shake you to the core. And if love be denied or suppressed, they are so vivid as to burn. ---Mark Helprin, In Sunlight...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CounselingKevin/~4/67sgcbordOE" height="1" width="1"/>

Kevin Funnell http://www.counselingkevin.com/2013/03/so-vivid-as-to-burn.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c652b53ef017ee946b5c6970d 2013-03-13T14:35:15-05:00 2013-03-13T14:35:15-05:00

“Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others once had of you then you must ask yourself if you have the problem or...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CounselingKevin/~4/IGC8f29Yg_k" height="1" width="1"/>

Kevin Funnell http://www.counselingkevin.com/2013/03/is-it-ever-wise-to-simply-damn-the-torpedoes.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c652b53ef017ee934ed9c970d 2013-03-11T22:53:21-05:00 2013-03-11T22:53:21-05:00

Standing in Grand Central Station, Harry Copeland ponders the thousands of souls rushing by him "who might someday overlap mortality." For perhaps with the ignition of eternity every single vanishing moment and the blessedness of each man, woman, and child lost to memory would awake to be engraved on the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CounselingKevin/~4/JCv6kOlpls8" height="1" width="1"/>

Kevin Funnell http://www.counselingkevin.com/2013/03/the-hope-for-joyful-niagras-of-light.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c652b53ef017c3764c34b970b 2013-03-07T19:34:37-06:00 2013-03-07T13:01:36-06:00

"But, Catherine, everything that's true despite us - the things they're talking about, natural laws - will always remain true despite us. What matters is what's true because of us. That's what's up for grabs. That's where the battle is. One remembers and values one's life not for its objective...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CounselingKevin/~4/PVpeQPAfu_E" height="1" width="1"/>

Kevin Funnell http://www.counselingkevin.com/2013/03/one-simple-thing-that-is-true.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c652b53ef017c37572732970b 2013-03-05T21:49:20-06:00 2013-03-05T21:56:16-06:00

Evening --Rainer Maria Rilke The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CounselingKevin/~4/wDhR1XWoN7E" height="1" width="1"/>

Kevin Funnell http://www.counselingkevin.com/2013/03/wiht-its-immensity-and-fear.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c652b53ef017ee8f256f0970d 2013-03-04T22:17:38-06:00 2013-03-04T22:17:38-06:00

A recent series of back-and-forth emails with someone I know and who I offended by challenging them quite "strenuously" about their assertions, brought home to me once again how different is the workaday world I inhabit. Two examples of what it is like to swim in a shark tank and...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CounselingKevin/~4/mfRc8eu3wvs" height="1" width="1"/>

Kevin Funnell http://www.counselingkevin.com/2013/03/rough-edges.html