Posts related to improving a life of virtue.
"The true object of war is peace." This expression is often attributed to Sun Tzu, author of the ancient "Art of War." In fact, it seems to have originated in the forward to the 1983 edition of that book, written by James Clavell - someone who is just as qualified to remark on the subject... Continue Reading →
A graphic recently came up on facebook with a quote from Christian comedian Mark Lowry. "Love the sinner, hate the sin? How about: Love the sinner, hate your own sin! I don't have time to hate your sin. There are too many of you! Hating my sin is a full-time job. How about you hate... Continue Reading →
My kids were watching VeggieTales again, and as I walked into the room I heard Junior Asparagus explaining to his father why he was no longer afraid of the 'monsterous fears' he was having earlier in the episode of "Where's God When I'm Scared." As Junior explained that not only was God bigger than... Continue Reading →
QQVTFT6E4955 I don't hesitate to admit I'm a fan of movies by M. Night Shyamalan. Or at least I am a fan of his work, just not all of them. I like the ones that are about purpose, about people finding their place in life, even in the most extraordinary - or ordinary - of... Continue Reading →
Today, I unfriended everyone on Facebook and unsubscribed from every group to which I belonged. My decision was not based on a terrible incident, or fear of government spying - definitely not the latter, as my father had worked for the NSA in the 1970's on a project called Echelon. Nor did I do it... Continue Reading →
I really do try to avoid Facebook. The few times I popped on, though, my feed was full of reactions to goings-on in the news, even from bloggers and writers that I follow for their essays. A politician did or said something stupid and frightening, something obscene happened on a tv show on a channel... Continue Reading →
The battle of good vs evil is always easier from someone else's perspective. Few epics of high fantasy manage to capture what it is like to slog through the challenges of life. Wouldn't it be great if our life's purpose was handed to us as a powerful ring that needed to be tossed in a... Continue Reading →
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