{"id":8808,"date":"2022-10-24T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:48","slug":"the-width","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8808","title":{"rendered":"THE WIDTH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">Poet and naturalist<span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: inherit;margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Diane Ackerman<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">\u00a0once wrote,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Wikipedia, Ackerman has packed a lot of adventures into her seven-plus decades of life: She has done field research in Patagonia, Japan, Brazil, Hawaii, the Amazon rainforest, and Antarctica.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #111111\">She can even claim the honor of having a particular molecule named after her &#8211; &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent\"><span style=\"color: #111111;font-size: large\">dianeackerone&#8221; &#8211; a sex pheromone in crocodiles.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent\"><span style=\"color: #111111;font-size: large\">Now <b><i>that <\/i><\/b>is something to put at the top of your resume!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know if Ackerman is a believer or not, but I believe the pinnacle of what she is describing as &#8220;the width of life&#8221; is what Jesus would call &#8220;abundant life&#8221;. (John 10:10)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is tragic for a Christian to &#8220;get through&#8221; life when we could be seeking joy and fulfillment in those good works that God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wonder if there&#8217;s a limit to how much God could cram into our days and weeks if we let Him.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet and naturalist\u00a0Diane Ackerman\u00a0once wrote, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.&#8221; According to Wikipedia, Ackerman has packed a lot of adventures into her seven-plus decades of life: She has done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8809,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions\/8809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}