The weekly emotional roller-coaster of preaching often has more low points than adrenaline highs.

Our strength to endure obviously comes not from within us, but from someone who is at work in and through us.

We seem to live in a society of fear.

I think an honest observation recognizes that discontentment is preached and celebrated as a lifestyle by many today. Isn’t it true? A toxic system of discontentment is built and fed by most of the media, the market and other means.

On the day that Tranströmer was announced as winner, the book I happened to be reading was Confessions, by Augustine. I mention this for a reason: if the Nobel Prize for Literature was already being given in the 5th century, I believe Augustine would possibly have received it for his writing.