Category: Courage
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It Belongs To Us All
Jacques Ellul once said, “In a society like ours, it is almost impossible for a person to be held responsible for anything. For each person carries out an individual task disconnected from the whole.” He then illustrated his point by example of a bursting dam. The dam breaks. A village is washed away. There is […]
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Use It Or Lose It
Use It Or Lose It: “You can’t always play it safe. You can’t go about your days suspicious and guarded, your heart under constant lockdown. It’s impossible to keep yourself protected and unmarked, if life is want you wish to live.”
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It’s Never Wrong To Do Right
From the Hebrew Scriptures I have been reading the Book of Proverbs lately, more so than since my childhood. The Proverbs, credited largely to King Solomon of ancient times, were often assigned as bed-time reading for me and my siblings. Returning to them now, returns me to my youth and some of the basic lessons […]