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Balance Needed

Look outward. You have been rightly taught Socrates' dictum that the unexamined life is not worth living. I would add: The too examined life is not worth ...


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There But for the Grace of God Go I

As murder storywriters assume, and as most of us learn in experience, we have in us capacities for fury, fear, envy, greed, conceit, callousness, and ...


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Forgiveness Humbles

Forgiven souls are humble. They cannot forget that they owe all they have and hope for to free grace, and this keeps them lowly. They are brands plucked ...


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Where Honesty Begins

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.


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I Am as I Am

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you ...


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Life's Real Miracles

Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing ...


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Using Your Time Wisely

Too many folks spend their whole lives trying to fix things that happened before their time. You're better off using your time to improve yourself. ...


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Knowing Our Limits

If we don't know ourselves and what shaped us, what neutralizes us, and what our limits are, we invite disaster.


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Who Am I?

Behind much of the rat-race of modern life is the unexamined assumption that what I do determines who I am. In this way, we define ourselves by what we ...


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Letting God Be God

Humility is facing the truth. It is useful to remind myself that the word itself comes from humus, earth, and in the end simply means that I allow myself ...


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