Do Not Be Upset. Do Not Be Afraid. Even If Everything is Changing. (Teresa of Avila)
“The Bookmark of Teresa of Jesus”Do not be upset.Do not be afraid.Everything is...
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Category: Fear – Courage
Our Grave National Danger – Links & Quotes
When the President of the United States literally praises mayhem and violence, and major...
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Do Not Be Afraid! 3 Bible Aids – Jesus’ Peace; Lifestyle Change; Faith in Love.
It’s Confusing, even Downright Scary. There are good reasons to be afraid. So what...
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Let Nothing Upset You; Let Nothing Frighten You; Even Now. (Teresa of Avila)
An Exercise in Calm This image – a sledge, hammering against...
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We Must Speak Up. “Lift your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their sins.”
God requires it of the prophet. He MUST speak out about what he sees going on. Shout it aloud, do...
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Spiritual Tune-Up: A Spirit of Melancholy and CONSTRAINT
I fear the spirit of melancholy and constraint. -unknown Let’s not be one of those...
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Hate, Grief, & a New Story. Post-Election HOPE via Empathy.
I. “It may seem that the world is falling apart.” Normal is coming unhinged....
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Freedom to Not Always Fear Our Rulers
One of the great achievements of free society in a stable democracy is that many people, for much...
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A New Era – President Trump. Should We Hope or Mourn?
A new era begins in America. We have reason to mourn, and reason to hope. Let’s do both....
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Bernie Sanders Responds to the Election – Cooperate and Resist!
Bernie made a very brief, very wise statement about the election of Donald Trump. He has a way...
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The Trump Danger to many Christians is Real
Christian friends: If you support Trump, it is a pastoral problem for me. You are...
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When You Work On It It’s No Longer Impossible
It’s impossible. But that would not stop me from considering it.Here’s the guy who did...
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Freedom From Fear – Comes From Your Faith, Not Your Government
[See also: What if We Are Persecuted?!] No government can ever guarantee that you or I will have...
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Phil Johnson over at Seeing the Forest sees one of the important differences between these two campaigns for the Presidency. Compare the reaction of Obama and his campaign to last nights “that one” comment by McCain,...
Read MoreAnd Now? Hard Times and Good News.
Bad News Warren Buffett, the widely respected Omaha multi-billionaire, used the phrase “Pearl Harbor” to describe the significance of our nation’s current economic crisis, a phrase he has never before used about the...
Read MoreRFK – “Moral Courage”
Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. – Robert F. Kennedy...
Read MoreThe (Mis-)Use of Fear in Politics – Al Gore & Dwight Eisenhower
“Any who act as if freedom’s defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.” – EisenhowerI’ve started into Al Gore’s new book, The...
Read MoreDo What You Can
“Ring the bells that still can ring forget your perfect offering there is a crack in everything that’s how the light gets in.” -Leonard Cohen
Read MoreA Reasonable Goal
Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set… — Gandalf [thanks to dnta at dkos who uses it as a sig line]
Read MoreWill It Be Enough? Is There Any Place To Hide?
Here are two thoughtful questions that came my way yesterday. Regarding the good things that are happening that work against the current Admnistration’s direction: “Will it be enough to stop fascism from taking hold?...
Read MoreRemembering Martin Luther King Jr – Moral & Intellectual Integrity
On this, the anniversary of the murder of Dr. King, let me commend to you the recent post by Rob Couto. It has excerpts from a speech King gave in New York City, one year before his murder, laying out very clearly and powerfully...
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