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To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.” – George Packer Without principles, whatever moral governor one might have stops working, and with it — … Continue reading Principles Matter
This post is best viewed from the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Compassion recognizes in another what we recognize in ourselves.” ~ Pema Chodrom In all my years no virtue has come to make more sense to me than compassion, the willingness to act for the well-being of … Continue reading Why Compassion?
“A hero is not braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson We are in need of Emerson’s five-minute heroes. Lots of them! People willing to hold their feet to the fire for five extra minutes to: guard protect defend the soul of a nation being sorely tested. Thomas Paine observed during the early days of the … Continue reading Five-Minute Heroes
To watch the video in today’s post, please go to the Just A Thought website. PLEASE CLICK HERE *** A “shoe leather prayer” is a practical way of getting a prayer answered. I learned the prayer some 32 years ago. Here’s that story… At the time Marsha and I were in the early days of our courtship. She lived in Chicago and I lived in … Continue reading Shoe Leather Prayers
To read the thought and hear the music in today’s post, please go to the Just A Thought website. PLEASE CLICK HERE “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” ~ C. S. Lewis Here’s a lesson in humility from a guy I knew … Continue reading Learning to be an Anybody