The SNAFU Principle

"The SNAFU Principle: True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth."

~ Robert Anton Wilson.

Their hunted expression

"She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."

~ C. S. Lewis

Choose Joy

Anne thoughtfully explains, “There’s something that, growing up, my mom would say to me. And I say it back to her a lot. We’re fairly dramatic people. And we’re prone to very big feelings. So, when those very big feelings sometimes aren’t the most positive thing, we just look at each other, and we say, ‘Choose joy.’”

A Princess Grows Up
By Jeanne Wolf
Parade Magaine
Published: June 1, 2008
(bold added)

The Best Thing for You

"The worst thing that happens to you can be the best thing for you,
if you don't let it let the best of you."

~ Author unknown

Repeating the Past

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

~ George Santayana

Assume Positive Intent

The May edition of Fortune Magazine asked 19 accomplished people what was the best advice they ever got. Here are some of them:

Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, got his from his days at Salomon Brothers: "Always ask for the order, and second, when the customer says yes, stop talking."

Mark Hurd, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, got his years ago from his days under NCR CEO Chuck Exley who was listening to an executive's presentation. At the end Exley said to the presenter: "Good Story, but it's hard to look smart with bad numbers." Hurd said he has reflected on that over the years, and says "deliver good numbers and you earn the right for people to listen to you."

Indra Nooyi, an India born woman and Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, says her father was an absolutely wonderful man who taught her: always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does assume positive intent.
She went on to say, "you will be amazed how your whole approach to a person or problems becomes very different. If you assume negative intent your anger goes up and your response is random. Assume positive intent and you listen, you're non defensive, and you seek to understand.

Sam Palmisano, the chairman and CEO of IBM, was told this but he has observed it. The most effective leaders, CEO's and head of state, which he has observed, don't make themselves the center of attention. They are respectful and they listen. This makes people comfortable; they open up and speak up.

A Sporting Gesture Touches ’Em All

Sports of The Times
A Sporting Gesture Touches ’Em All
By GEORGE VECSEY
New York Times
Published: April 30, 2008

Something remarkable happened in a college softball game last Saturday in Ellensburg, Wash. At least, I am conditioned to think it was remarkable, since it involved an act of sportsmanship, with two players helping an injured opponent complete the home run she had just slugged.

The moment of grace came after Sara Tucholsky, a diminutive senior for Western Oregon, hit what looked like a three-run homer against Central Washington. Never in her 21 years had Tucholsky propelled a ball over a fence, so she did not have her home run trot in order, gazing in awe, missing first base. When she turned back to touch the bag, her right knee buckled, and she went down, crying and crawling back to first base.

Pam Knox, the Western Oregon coach, made sure no teammates touched Tucholsky, which would have automatically made her unable to advance. The umpires ruled that if Tucholsky could not make it around the bases, two runs would score but she would be credited with only a single. (“She’ll kill me if I take it away from her,” Knox thought.)

Then Mallory Holtman, the powerful first baseman for Central Washington, said words that brought a chill to everybody who heard them:

“Excuse me, would it be O.K. if we carried her around and she touched each bag?”

The umpires huddled and said it would be legal, so Holtman and the Central Washington shortstop, Liz Wallace, lifted Tucholsky, hands crossed under her, and carried her to second base, and gently lowered her so she could touch the base. Then Holtman and Wallace started to giggle, and so did Tucholsky, through her tears, and the three of them continued this odd procession to third base and home to a standing ovation.

“Everybody was crying,” Knox recalled on Tuesday. “It was an away game, and our four fans were crying. We couldn’t hit after that.”

The extra run made it easier for Western Oregon to win the second game, 4-2, and sweep the doubleheader. More important, all involved realized they had taken part in an event they would always remember. (Credit where credit is due: I heard about this incident via Jared Max on WCBS-AM news radio Tuesday morning and later I found a nice article by Graham Hays on ESPN.com before making my own calls.)

The question is, where did it come from, this impulsive gesture by Mallory Holtman?

“She hit it over the fence,” Holtman said Tuesday. “She deserved it. Anybody would have done it. I just beat them to it.” She said she had been taught by her coach, Gary Frederick, that “winning is not everything.”

Is there something intrinsic to women’s sports that caused this generosity? Holtman, nearly 23, did not think so. “Not many people are ever in that position,” she said. “I would hope that our baseball players would do it.”

Knox, the Western Oregon coach, said the act “came from character.”

“They’re playing for a coach who instills it,” she said. ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/sports/
baseball/30vecsey.html

risk-taking, creativity and perseverance

"Can wealth be taught? Absolutely. Are people born with a wealthy mindset? Absolutely," says Dr. Gabriela Cora, president of the Executive Health & Wealth Institute, a corporate consultancy in Miami. "I believe someone who is born with the inner motivation to succeed -- and encounters a fertile environment that enables the potential for accumulating wealth -- will find extraordinary opportunities."

Cora has identified three key characteristics that she believes most wealthy people possess: risk-taking, creativity and perseverance. . . .

Dr. Cora believes the best thing a parent can do to teach kids about wealth is to expose them to the habits of mind that lead to success.

"Teach them to think like an entrepreneur -- to create new opportunities, rather than to just think about money," she says.

Published March 13, 2008

Can you teach your kids to be rich?
By Abby Ellin
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/
Investing/StockInvestingTrading/
Canyouteachkidstoberich_article.aspx?GT1=33011

High School Reunion

My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion.

I kept staring at a drunken woman swigging her drink, as she sat alone at a nearby table. My wife asks, "Do you know her?"

"Yes," I sighed. "She's my old girlfriend. I understand she started drinking right after we split up those many years ago. I hear she hasn't been sober since."

"My Goodness!" says my wife. "Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?"

~ Author Unknown

Tremendous bundle of experience

"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Notice Whether an Idea Unifies or Divides

Blinded by the Light?
Getting on the right spiritual path
by Martha Beck
O Magazine, May 2008

The word religion derives from the Latin religare, which means "to bind together." I finally fell in love with meditation when I felt it reconnecting me with my real self, with humanity, nature, the entire universe. This experience of oneness, at-one-ment, lies at the charismatic core of every religious tradition. So as you go along your spiritual search, observe the long-term effect of every doctrine and practice that comes your way. If it breaks, shatters, or destroys, it's not religion—its absolutism. That drug'll kill you. Real religion, by definition, makes things whole again. It heals.

Conscience and Morality

quote from Hitler written on the wall at Auschwitz:

"I freed Germany from the stupid and degrading fallacies of conscience and morality... we will train young people before whom the world will tremble. I want young people capable of violence - imperious, relentless and cruel."

quotes from Jesus:

"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
Matthew 5:43-48 NRSV

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?"
He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
Matthew 22:34-40 NRSV

"I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
John 13:34-35 NRSV

quote from St. Paul:

"Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are. Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.’ No, ‘if your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads.’
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
Romans 12:16-21 NRSV

Sacrifice

I can sacrifice what I am now for what I can be.

~ Truthful Grace

Empathy

You are only able to help people who you can empathize with.

~ Truthful Grace

Sheepdog Blessings

Some people like to criticize and tell you that you are going the wrong way. They are like the sheepdogs the shepherd sends out to bring back straying sheep. The sheepdog nips at a sheep's heels to drive it back to the shepherd. Although the sheepdog does the right thing, it is not able to care for the flock as a shepherd does.

Only the shepherd is fully aware of all the needs of the flock. Only the shepherd is able to protect the flock, care for the flock, and love each individual sheep. A shepherd gives shepherd blessings, as described in Psalm 23. A shepherd is able to restore the soul.

God is our good shepherd. Some follow God as assistant shepherds, loving the flock with God's love. Some follow God as sheep dogs, nipping at the heels of the flock to drive them back toward God. Others are wolves, destroying the flock for their own benefit.

Sheepdogs are not shepherds, and they are not wolves. Sheepdogs give sheepdog blessings.

~ Truthful Grace

Ruling Mandate

"Quake leaves China in race against time"
With thousands still trapped, the premier directed rescue efforts.
Philadelphia Inquirer, Wed. May 14, 2008The death toll in the nation's rugged southwest climbed to more than 12,000 people, and state media cited an official who said that an additional 9,400 might still be
By Tim Johnson
McClatchy Newspapers
BEIJING

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, megaphone in hand, personally directed efforts yesterday to cope with the most calamitous earthquake to hit China in three decades as soldiers poured into rubble-strewn Sichuan province to provide relief.

buried under debris.

Wen rushed to Sichuan province immediately after the earthquake, and spent most of the next 24 hours coordinating relief efforts.

"I think they were affected by Katrina," Moses said, referring to the bungled U.S. disaster-relief efforts in New Orleans after the 2005 hurricane. "They don't want to be on the wrong side on this."

China's ruling Communist Party has a mandate that depends on its ability to
deliver economic growth,
maintain social order, and
provide rapid help in emergencies.

The party was shaken this year by its failure to quickly respond to massive snowstorms and to severe unrest in Tibet and by a troubled global Olympic torch relay before the Beijing Games on Aug. 8-24.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/
20080514_Quake_leaves_China_in_race_against_time.html

Night Train Through Inner Mongolia

Now the child is a runny-nosed stranger
you've finally decided to share your seat with,
and the whole thing keeps heaving into the dark.

The child sleeps unsweetly hunched against you,
your side is slowly stinging, he has wet himself,
so you do not move at all. I know you.

You sit awake, baffling about a quirky faith,
and do not shift until morning.
This is why you are blessed, I think, and usually chosen.

~ by Anthony Piccione, from his book The Guests at the Gate

The 1936 Olympics...and a Friendship

It is 1936. American Jesse Owens seems sure to win the long jump competition in the Olympic games. The previous year he had jumped 26 feet, 8 1/4 inches -- a record that will stand for 25 years.

As he walks to the long-jump pit, however, Owens sees a tall, blue eyed, blond German taking practice jumps in the 26-foot range. Owens feels nervous. He is acutely aware of the Nazis' desire to prove "Aryan superiority." As a black son of a share cropper, he knows what it is like to feel inferior.

On his first jump, Owens inadvertently leaps from several inches beyond the takeoff board. Rattled, he fouls on his second attempt, too. One more foul and he will be eliminated. At this point, the tall German introduces himself as Luz Long.

"You should be able to qualify with your eyes closed!" he says to Owens.

For the next few moments, the African American and the white model of Nazi manhood chat together. Then Long makes a suggestion. Since the qualifying distance is only 23 feet, 5 1/2 inches, why not make a mark several inches before the takeoff board and jump from there, just to play it safe?

Owens does and qualifies easily. In the finals, Owens sets an Olympic record and earns the second of four gold medals. But who is the first person to congratulate him? Luz Long -- in full view of Adolph Hitler.

Owens never again sees Long, who is later killed in World War II.

"You could melt down all the medals and cups I have," Owens later writes, "and they wouldn't be a platting on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Luz Long."

Perhaps unknowingly, Luz Long taught the world a valuable lesson. Someone else put it like this:

"We can learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp...some are pretty...some are dull... some have weird names...and all are different colors. But they all have to learn to live in the same box."

So do we.

By David Wallechinsky

Dr. Phil’s 10 Life Laws

March 16, 2008
www.fogmagazine.com/dr-phils-10-life-laws/

Dr. Phil offers ten simple life laws to help you live a happier life.
Each law comes with a strategy. After all, the key to managing your life is to employ the best strategy to your problems.

Life Law #1: You either get it or you don’t.
Strategy: Become one of those who gets it.

Life Law #2: You create your own experience.
Strategy: Acknowledge and accept accountability for your life. Understand your role in creating results.

Life Law #3: People do what works.
Strategy: Identify the payoffs that drive your behavior and that of others.

Life Law #4: You cannot change what you do not acknowledge.
Strategy: Get real with yourself about life and everybody in it. Be truthful about what isn’t working in your life. Stop making excuses and start making results.

Life Law #5: Life rewards action.
Strategy: Make careful decisions and then pull the trigger. Learn that the world couldn’t care less about thoughts without actions.

Life Law #6: There is no reality, only perception.
Strategy: Identify the filters through which you view the world. Acknowledge your history without being controlled by it.

Life Law #7: Life is managed; it is not cured.
Strategy: Learn to take charge of your life and hold on. This is a long ride, and you are the driver every single day.

Life Law #8: We teach people how to treat us.
Strategy: Own, rather than complain about, how people treat you. Learn to renegotiate your relationships to have what you want.

Life Law #9: There is power in forgiveness.
Strategy: Open your eyes to what anger and resentment are doing to you. Take your power back from those who have hurt you.

Life Law #10: You have to name it before you can claim it.
Strategy: Get clear about what you want and take your turn.

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About the Author:
Dr. Phil Mcgraw is author of countless self-help books and host of the nationally syndicated talk show “Dr. Phil”.

Favorite Dr. Phil Quotes from Marilynn Mobley

Quoted from the Blog: Baby Boomer Insights
by Marilynn Mobley - a baby boomer PR executive in Atlanta

February 12, 2008
Why Dr. Phil is one of my favorite Boomers (to love and hate)http://babyboomerinsights.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/why-dr-phil-is.html

"In honor of daytime's beloved TV therapist, here are my favorite Dr. Phil quotes, straight from my hard drive, where I added them as I heard them over the past six-plus years:"

• You can’t give away what you don’t have.


• No matter how flat you make a pancake, there’s always two sides.


• How’s that working for you?


• Sometimes you make the right decision; and sometimes you make the decision right.


• Awareness without action is worthless.


• The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.


• It is better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.


• If you want more, you have to require more of yourself.


• The most you get is what you ask for.


• You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.


• We teach people how to treat us.


• The quickest way between A and B is not always at a feverish pace.


• Sometimes you've just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.


• Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.


• People with nothing to hide, hide nothing.


• There is no reality – only perception.


• Life rewards action.


• You have to name it before you can claim it.


• There is power in forgiveness.


• Life is managed; it is not cured.


• You create your own experience.


• You either get it or you don’t.


• People do what works.


• You wouldn’t worry so much about what people think about you if you just realized how little they do.


• You have to create yourself from the inside out.


• You can’t talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.


• You’re only a loser if you quit while you’re behind.


• Sometimes, a relationship just needs a hero.


• You can’t fix what you don’t acknowledge.

Even if you don't like Dr. Phil (and I do see how that's possible) you just about have to admit he comes out with some real jewels sometimes.

http://babyboomerinsights.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/why-dr-phil-is.html

Selfishness

"Forty for you, sixty for me,
and equal partners we will be."

~ Joan Rivers

I had the power

Noah Levine
Author of Against the Stream (HarperOne)

When I was 17 years old, I realized, after waking up in a cell in a juvenile detention center—again—that I was the one who had gotten myself into the mess I was in. At that point, in 1988, I'd been drinking and getting high since I was 12, and there I was, looking at my third felony arrest, resigned to a life of incarceration.

It was after a failed suicide attempt that the moment of clarity, that spiritual experience happened: the breaking of denial and blaming everyone else for my problems. I couldn't blame this ignorant, oppressive world; it was how I was relating to this world. So much of the suffering I was experiencing was about the past and the future, but that moment brought me into the present and was the beginning of my spiritual practice: meditation, prayer, and addressing my addiction.

I was responsible. I was not a victim. I had created the situation and I had the power to get out of it. I had hope.

Forgiving Imperfect People

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Author of Overcoming Life's Disappointments (Anchor)

I have a vivid memory of being about 10 years old and doing something I knew was wrong. My parents confronted me about it and I admitted it, certain that I had just permanently destroyed any image they might have had of me as their ideal son.

To my immense relief, they forgave me and assured me of their love. That was my first encounter with the mysterious Force in the universe that impels people to forgive wrongdoing and to love even imperfect people.

Enthusiasm

“There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Attitude is Everything

By Francie Baltazar-Schwartz

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."
"Yeah, right, it’s not that easy," I protested.
"Yes it is," Jerry said, "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live life."
I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.
After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.
I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?"
I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.
"The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live."
"Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.
Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, ‘He’s a dead man.’ I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry, "She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes,’ I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.

Attitude, after all, is everything.

A Prayer at 80

I LOVE TO LIVE

Today dear Lord, I'm 80 so there's much I haven't done.
I hope, dear Lord, you'll let me live until I'm 81.

But then, if I haven't finished all I want to do,
Would you let me stay awhile--until I'm 82?

Many places yet to visit, so very much to see--
Do you think that you could manage to make it 83?

The world is changing very fast; there is so much in store,
I'd like it very much to live until I'm 84.

And if by then I find I'm still alive,
I'd really like to stay until I'm 85.

More change, more change ahead I see and I'd really like to stick
And see what happens to the world when I'm 86.

I know, dear Lord, it's much to ask and I know it's nice in Heaven,
But really Lord I'd like to stay until I'm 87.

I know by then I won't be fast and sometimes will be late,
But it would be so pleasant --to be around at 88.

I will have seen many things, and I've had such a wonderful time,
So, I'm sure that I'll be willing to leave at 89--
MAYBE!

Just one more thing I'd like to say--Dear Lord, I thank you kindly--
But if it is O.K. with you, I'd love to live past 90!

~ Author Unknown

Native American Treaty of 1722

from the treaty, dated 1722, between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Mahican Nation and the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia:

You desire there may be a perpetual peace and friendship between you and the Five Nations and between your children and our children -- and that the same may be kept as long as the mountains and rivers endure, all which we like well.

We will deliver this in charge to our children that it may be kept in remembrance with their children and children's children to the latest ages.

We desire that the peace and tranquility that is now established between us may be as clear as the sun shining in its luster without any cloud or darkness and that the same may continue forever.

source: Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, as of May 3, 2008

Why Did the Prodigal's Father Need to Run?

Dr. Kenneth E. Bailey, a teacher who lived and taught in the Middle East for over 40 years, explains how this parable reveals the heart of God:

Through the prodigal son parable, Jesus explains—in part—why he needed to die on the cross. “The father’s suffering at the beginning of the story has no effect on the prodigal son. The son isn't even aware of it. The son must first witness a demonstration of the father's suffering. Without witnessing this demonstration, the callous son will never understand that he is the cause of the broken relationship. Without the father's visible demonstration of suffering, the prodigal will return to the house as a servant. He will—quite likely—take on more and more of the characteristics of his older brother. Without this visible demonstration of costly love, there can be no reconciliation. Isn’t this the story of the way God deals with the sin of the world on the cross?” writes Dr. Kenneth E. Bailey in The Cross & the Prodigal. . . .

Today—just as in Jesus’ day—we struggle for an answer to “what must I do to make it to heaven.” We all have a tendency to look to our own efforts. Accordingly, many say the turning point for the prodigal son was when the prodigal was starving and “came to himself”—returning a repentant sinner to his father. However, this is not the turning point. When the prodigal was starving he knew that he couldn’t return home because he thought his father would reject him in anger. So the prodigal hatches a self-serving plan that would give him the best chance of filling his empty stomach. So rather than returning a repentant sinner, the prodigal crafts a contrived speech hoping to convince his father that he will pay back the money that he wasted.

The pivotal point—in reality—is when the father runs to the prodigal (and when the father leaves the banquet to plead with the older son.) In both situations, it’s the father’s demonstration of costly love that has the transforming power to save both the younger and the older son.

Yet, the father will not force either son to accept him. The father does, however, love each of them so tangibly that it creates the environment for the father’s love to break through his son’s misconceptions about him. What’s so eye opening is that sons’ “goodness” and “badness” lead both away from the father’s love. Most disturbing is that our “goodness” can get in our way more than our “badness.”

http://www.eprodigals.com/?gclid=
CNm-muHyipMCFQrFGgod7DdGgg