When I consider the short span of my life...

He nails my experience too. I’m thankful to know a God who orders my steps and knew me in my mother’s womb. Without confidence in Him, terror is the only appropriate emotion.

“When I consider the short span of my life absorbed into the preceding and subsequent eternity...I am terrified, and surprised to find myself here rather than there, for there is no reason why it should be here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who put me here? On whose orders and on whose decision have this place and this time been allotted to me?” - Blaise Pascal, Pensèes, 102. 

A long ride and a slow burn →

“It’s not an image, it’s a long ride and a slow burn and nothing’s going to happen easy.”

- A-Rod explaining the attitude we all ought to have. It’s easy to project an image, it’s harder to maintain consistency over the long haul. 

The face he deserves

“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”

— George Orwell's Notebooks, in Randy Frasee, Think, Act, Be, Like Jesus

Trust & Rural Communities

In his new book, “Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump,” Stiglitz argues that economists missed something important about these towns: They have social capital. Trust is what you might call the “magic fairy dust” that helps economies thrive. When people trust each other, they work better and harder and they tend to live happier lives, as Harvard professor Robert Putnam's research has shown. Overall, trust has eroded substantially in the United States in recent years as fewer and fewer people have a bond with their neighbors, let alone the government, businesses or civic institutions. But trust still exists in many of these smaller towns where people talk to and watch out for each other. That can be harnessed to transform the town for the 21st century, Stiglitz says...