“There may be moments in life when we are so unformed that we need to use values like an exoskeleton to keep us from collapsing. But something is very wrong if such moments recur often in adulthood.”
–Parker Palmer in Let Your Life Speak, p. 4
Posted by: Bob Clark | June 23, 2009
Thoughts on Adulthood
Posted in Discipleship, Maturity
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