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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 • • Humility
I knew he had the knife. He knew I knew he had the knife; but the rules of our encounter in that moment included both of us pretending neither of us knew those things. He was in serious trouble, and my job in that moment was to try to limit how much trouble he was in. Staring at the handle of that knife, I was also hoping to limit the amount of trouble I was in.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 • • General
Nothing stirs the soul of a human more than courage; nothing haunts that soul like cowardice. Shakespeare knew this, and tapped into it when he penned the famous St. Crispin's Day speech in Henry V. "And gentlemen in England now a-bed shall think themselves accursed they were not here---". Samuel Johnson knew it, too, when he suggested every man "thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea," the two places an ancient could count on measuring their courage.
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Thursday, October 9, 2008 • • General
Already weary beyond words, this band of tinkerers, tailors, merchants and seamen had been fighting the sea for hours, stealing 19 sailors from its' deadly grasp. But nineteen wasn't twenty, and the missing twentieth sailor had been spotted, still aboard the Iron Crown, the thousand-ton bark swept ashore by yet another nineteenth-century North Sea storm. Soaked and spent, the Life Brigade climbed back into their vessel to fight one more fight for life.
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Thursday, October 2, 2008 • • General
I can't parallel park! Now, I'm not saying I have trouble doing it, I'm saying I can't do it. For someone who prides himself in being able to weave big trucks through traffic like a ballet dancer, this is an embarrassing character flaw.
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Friday, September 26, 2008 • • General
Jesus isn't looking to non-Christians to fix the world; He's looking to us, His followers, to do that. We need to fix this economic crisis.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 • • General
My inbox is always packed with emails from Christians hoping I'll scold people who've offended our faith; or who as public Christians have failed to live up to the words of Christ.
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008 • • General
"You Christians aren't really interested in me; you're just interested in what might happen if you get me." These words sprang from a CEO during a conversation about his personal salvation. Clearly flustered, he continued, "When you guys come to see me, I know you want my checkbook or my influence. Just once, I wish what you wanted was me."
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 • • General
We are never alone.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 • • General
It's all there in one place, told by the one person best able to understand its' nuance. There's the impetuous-give-it-to-me-right-now insensitive grabber; as well as the I-love-you-more-than-you-understand patient old soul; and the always loveable you-don't-appreciate-what-I've-done-for-you whiner.
http://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=46477&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 • • General
Likely you've been there many times before; perhaps you're there even now. Ahead of you are the very things you've longed for, worked for, and even sacrificed a part of yourselves to reach: The joy of the closed deal, the lure of the dream job, the freedom of not having money woes anymore. Or maybe those things are more personal; maybe what you see before you is the comfort of the perfect mate, the settled joy of that dream home, or even just the end to all those lonely or loveless hours.
