“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.”
We can’t know all the ways God loves His children, but He does, and so should we.
Category: adversity
Infinite Plasticity
“Only here, in America, were the common folk of the Old World given a chance to show what they could do on their own, without a master to push and order them about. History contrived an earth-shaking joke when it lifted by the nape of the neck lowly peasants, shopkeepers, laborers, paupers, jailbirds, and drunks from the […]
The Hard Way is the Easy Way
“As a general rule, in prosperous societies we have been outsourcing more and more of the work that, a generation ago, was done “internally” in the home. It sounds almost quaint by comparison to life now, but in the modest neighborhood in which I grew up, there was a lot of work going on in […]
Compassion and Inequality
Recently Megan McArdle, a Bloomberg View columnist, published an article titled: “How Utah Keeps the American Dream Alive.” I tend to see what’s broken, more than what’s going right, so I found this a hopeful read. There really are ways to we can help with poverty, right where we are. Here a few parts of this article […]
On Criticism, Compassion, and Charity
This is beautiful.
Hope Never Dies
For all of us, it is exceptional for us look outside ourselves and care about others, their needs, challenges and objectives more than our own. This is a poignant reminder that it is possible.
American Bonsai
“A master doesn’t retire. A master doesn’t stop. They do it until their dead. It’s a part of them. It’s who you are.”
The Importance of Metacognition
Our life is full of ill-formed problems. These are problems that have no easy answer. These are problems that require judgement and the ability to discern between right and wrong, good and evil. Unlike so much of what is taught in school, education for life is really about education for judgement; the ability to discern. […]
True Love
On May 28th, 2016, Alain de Botton wrote what would become the most-read article in The New York Times in all of 2016. It was titled, Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person. I liked this part: The good news is that it doesn’t matter if we find we have married the wrong person. We mustn’t abandon […]
The Blessings of Trials
Learning comes of the often painful experiences associated with growth.
David Weiss 