• Quotes

    "One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime."
    - Ralph Waldo Emerson


    "Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life: gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life...When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him...If we are only certain in our beliefs, we get dignified and severe and have the ban of finality about our views; but when we are rightly related to God, life is full of spontaneous, joyful uncertainty and expectancy."
    - Oswald Chambers


    "If I can stay in the middle of the turmoil calm and unperplexed, that is the end of the purpose of God. God is not working towards a particular finish; His end is the process."
    - Oswald Chambers


    "Sounds of laughter shades of life / Are ringing through my open ears / Exciting and inviting me / Limitless undying love / Which shines around me like a million suns / It calls me on and on across the universe."
    - John Lennon "Across the Universe"


    "There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet... / Time for you and time for me / And time yet for a hundred indecisions / And for a hundred visions and revisions / Before the taking of a toast and tea."
    - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

modern-day sexism

Posted on June 27, 2008 by livewell1

A word of advice: if you are a female and are in need of a service of some kind (car repair, internet hookup, CELL PHONE), make sure you have a guy with you. Until recently, I was fully convinced that in our day and age, women had a relatively equal place in society as men. [...]

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what to do?

Posted on June 21, 2008 by livewell1

A couple weeks ago the family and myself had dinner with Karen, her family, and the Wises (during which we had the most fabulous mojitos known to man). Shortly after meeting Mrs. Wise, she proceeded to spend about 25 minutes trying to convince me to become a nurse. At first I just humored her by [...]

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