The contemplative home of Skylar D. McManus
In the heyday of A.O.L. Instant Messenger, fifteen-year-old me embraced the role of Job's comforters. I didn't realize that's what I was doing at the time, and in hindsight I'd say it's a good thing I did. That's because it exposed me as a shallow fraud. Thanks to a conversation with my friend Tom one… Continue reading Why Do Philosophy? The Conversation that Changed My Life
My pride and joy, that's what you are. You are my life, my guiding star. When I am weak you make me strong. It's been you teaching me all along. For all the times I let you down, I'm sorry I wasn't there. Please know I was thinking of you. If not for you, I… Continue reading A Poem from My Mother
Every day I attempt to live my life as Jesus would live it, but I mostly fail. To attempt to live like Jesus would is to learn how to love Christ and everything that is represented in, by, and through him. Yet what I just said can sound stationary: to love, to learn, to live.… Continue reading Loving, Learning, and Living (Part 1)
