When I visited Cuba three and a half years ago, I observed up close, for the first time, what a closed society looks like. Where there is no freedom of press, where all the news and billboards were nothing but propaganda. Though the United States does not always live up […]
Be careful what you wish for. It’s an old adage often stated because you might get just that thing you wished for. I would offer as a warning an axiom of that statement: be careful what you pray for, you may get it. Some occurrences near the end of 2010 […]
“The purest joy springs from the deepest humiliation. The strongest and noblest characters are built on the foundation of patience, love, and submission to God’s will.” —Acts of the Apostles 319. Just this morning I prayed for God to work in me a strong and noble character. It’s been my […]
Today I’m adding to my pile something I did not anticipate that I would throw out. A bookshelf. As part of project deClutter, I purchased a filing cabinet, the assembly of which is a whole other story in and of it self (and probably the next thing I’ll write about […]
If you know someone is listening to you, it changes what you say, how you say it. It changes your expectations of the person you are telling.
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