List the people you admire and look to for advice…
I have written a blog post every day for just under 400 days.
That is long enough to form a habit. It is also long enough to notice that even a good discipline can start to repeat itself. So, starting today, I am adding a twist. Each Monday, I will include a Quote of the Week.
The people I admire most are not the people who give me advice. They are the people who lend me a clearer way of seeing.
Wendell Berry helps me see what matters most: place, limits, community, patience, work, land, love, and faithfulness. He has a way of cutting through noise without sounding hurried.
Parker Palmer helps me listen to my life. He writes with honesty about vocation, depression, courage, and the slow work of becoming whole. His wisdom has not come from standing above struggle, but from going through it.
Kate Bowler helps me distrust the false promises of success, health, prosperity, and control. She is funny, sharp, wounded, generous, and honest. She reminds me that life is not a problem to be solved by getting everything right.
Tim Winton helps me see beauty and damage without tidying either of them up too quickly. His writing is full of landscape, family, faith, wound, recovery, and wonder.
Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Bauman introduced me to Dadirri: deep inner listening, quiet still awareness, waiting. It is a way of being attentive to self, others, creation, and God.
Each Monday, I will put someone else’s thoughts at the beginning of my own.
A quote is not advice exactly. It is more like a small window. A clear way of seeing.
The Afterword 
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