Bill Gates Memorized the Sermon on the Mount

Bill Gates in Confirmation Class
The Gates family attended the University Congregational Church, where the Reverend Dale Turner was pastor. Each year Turner promised to buy dinner at Seattle’s 606-foot-tall Space Needle restaurant for all those in the confirmation class who memorized the Sermon on the Mount.
Although 31 others stuttered and stammered their way through chapters 5, 6, and 7 of the Book of Matthew, Turner was astounded when Bill learned the passages on a family car trip to the coast and then delivered a flawless recitation.

“I needed only to go to his home that day to know that he was something special. I couldn’t imagine how an 11-year-old boy could have a mind like that. And my subsequent questioning of him revealed a deep understanding of the passage,” Turner said.

Turner conceded that Gates probably didn’t learn the verses for their spiritual value, but because he loved a challenge.
p. 3-4, Bill Gates Speaks, by Janet Lowe, 1998

Bill Gates in High School
Like all teenagers, Gates and his friends looked for ways to seize power from their teachers:

“The greatest scam we discovered was that by getting the job doing high school scheduling, we could decide exactly what boys and girls were in our classes, and that was an incredible reward. It really motivated us to learn how to write interesting software.”

During the summer Gates and Allen earned approximately $5,000 in computer time by programming class schedules.
p. 12, Bill Gates Speaks, by Janet Lowe, 1998

"they come . . . to learn about themselves not me"

In Shirley MacLaine's New Movie, She Has 'The Last Word'
March 3, 20174:30 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
www.npr.org/2017/03/03/518391642/in-shirley-maclaines-new-movie-she-has-the-last-word
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST

Shirley MacLaine agrees that she's played a lot of sharp-tongued, difficult-to-be-around women, and that's true of her latest role in the movie, The Last Word. In her latest role, she's a woman obsessed with designing her own obituary. MacLaine talks about how she approaches acting and dodges what she wants written in her own obituary.

SHAPIRO: Shirley MacLaine told me when she does live question and answer events at theaters around the country, people almost never want to know about her Hollywood roles.
MACLAINE: No. They ask about reincarnation and UFOs and how to find one's center and how to meditate. It's all about the stuff in my books.
SHAPIRO: How could they not ask about - I don't know - "Terms Of Endearment," "Steel Magnolias," your years with the Rat Pack or on and on and on - "Sweet Charity," going all the way back to Broadway.
MACLAINE: Ari, can I call you that?
SHAPIRO: Please.
MACLAINE: They're interested in themselves. And they come to the different places that I speak to learn about themselves not me. I consider that a great compliment.

"Getting to Know 'the Other' Doesn't Work"

The Galli Report email
Feb. 9, 2018
Mark Galli
Editor-in-Chief, Christianity Today

Getting to Know 'the Other' Doesn't Work
There is a very common solution regarding people who harbor prejudice or resentment against those of another race, class, religion, or ethnicity. The solution hinges on the idea that we suspect others if we don’t really know them. If we could view them less as an “other” and more as a neighbor, as part and parcel of our common life together—then we’d all be able to get along with one another.
The only problem is that it doesn’t work. This is shown in some detail in Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz by Omer Bartov. A book review on Smithsonian.com begins,

There’s a common misconception about genocide that’s bothered Omer Bartov for a long time. “We tend to talk about genocide as something that calls for dehumanization,” says the Brown University professor of European history. “We think of it as a process where you have to detach yourself from the victims, to distance yourself from them as much as you can, and to create a system of detachment.” The reality of mass murder, he says, is far more intimate. …
“You can take a society in which people had lived together for centuries, and that very proximity, that very relationship between neighbors can have a dynamic of violence and self-justification,” Bartov says.

On a lighter note, it reminds me of a line in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The line comes after one of the characters describes the Babel fish, which when placed in the ear could translate any language in the universe for the listener: “Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything.”

This brings to mind another pungent line. Ruth Graham was asked if she ever considered divorcing Billy. “I’ve never considered divorce,” she replied. “Murder, yes. But not divorce.”

Such are the humorous ways of dispelling our sometimes-naïve bromides about solving conflict. Intimacy is not the answer; sometimes it’s the problem. It’s just hard, really hard, figuring out how to get people to stop killing each other. I’m tempted offer the out-of-fashion answer, naïve in its simplicity and improbable in its execution this side of history: the transformation of the human heart by Jesus Christ.

"I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it"

A critic didn’t care much for Moody’s preaching style; he thought his evangelistic manner was thoughtless and insensitive.
Moody responded, “I don’t much like it either.” He then asked his critic, “How do you do it?”
When the man said he didn’t do it at all, Moody replied, “I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.”

Dwight L. Moody was one of the most effective evangelists of his time.

"I’ve never considered divorce"

Ruth Graham was asked if she ever considered divorcing Billy.
“I’ve never considered divorce,” she replied. “Murder, yes. But not divorce.”

(Ruth was famous for her sense of humor)

Robert Redford's mother: "She came from Texas, and she carried that kind of robust, jocular goodwill."

Fox News 2/8/2018
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebrity/robert-redford-names-his-biggest-regret/ar-BBISjHo

Before Robert Redford was a celebrated Hollywood actor, he was just a restless kid in Los Angeles who allegedly stole beer for all-night drinking parties and was a member of a high school gang. However, the “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” star said it was his mother, Martha Hart, who encouraged him to change his life for the better.
“[I] had a lot of criticism, but I didn’t have a lot of support,” Redford told audiences at the Sundance Film Festival Utah Women’s Leadership Celebration, as reported by Closer Weekly Thursday.
“Why do I feel this strong connection to women?” said the 81-year-old. “I think it probably has to do with my mom… The one person who stood behind me was my mother. She believed that all things considered, she just had faith that I had something in me that was going to turn out OK.”
The actor described his mother as “the strong member of the family” who “always had a smile [and] was very, very adventurous."
“She came from Texas, and she carried that kind of robust, jocular goodwill," he said. "She saw things in a positive light.”
However, the magazine added Hart wouldn't live to see her son achieve international success as a movie star, filmmaker and philanthropist. Hart died in 1955 at age 40. Redford was only 18 at the time.
“She had a hemorrhage tied to a blood disorder she got after losing twin girls at birth 10 years after I was born,” explained Redford. He went on to reveal that while his mother was warned by doctors about the dangers of another pregnancy after his own difficult birth, she was determined to pursue her own dreams.
“She wanted a family so badly, she got pregnant again,” said Redford, adding his mother's death “seemed so unfair.”
“I took [her] for granted because that’s the way kids were at that age,” Redford admitted. “My regret is that she passed away before I could thank her.”

"I have forgiven you for what you did to me and my kids, and you have no control over me anymore."

Amy's abusive ex-husband was continuing to call her cell phone:
quotes:
At some point, Amy said she'd simply had enough. . . .
"I was so angry and filled with hate, but I actually felt sorry for him, because I knew him as a person, and there is a legitimately good side of him, and he's had a horrible life as a child, which is not an excuse, but he doesn't know anything different.  So I said, 'I have forgiven you for what you did to me and my kids, and you have no control over me anymore.'  There was dead silence, and it felt like an eternity, and he hung up.  And I have never heard from him since then. When they know that they don't have control, they don't want you anymore."

Hoda Kotb with Jane Lorenzini. Ten Years Later: Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives, Chapter 1 - the life of Amy Barnes. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013, page 18.

Quotes by Edward Abbey, Environmental Advocate

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here.
So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.
Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”
― Edward Abbey

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/37218.Edward_Abbey
"Edward Paul Abbey (1927–1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views."

Teamwork!

“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain’t nothing can beat teamwork.”
~ Author Mark Twain

she was meant to fly

Philippians 1:6 NIV
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

"If the caterpillar just chose to stay a caterpillar, if she decided that the chaos of metamorphosis would be too much for her to handle, she would never know what she could become. Do you think that changing her entire being isn’t painful? Do you think it’s not scary and hard and overwhelming?

"Of course it is, but if she didn’t fight against the fear, if she didn’t allow the change to turn her into her true self, we would never know how beautiful she is. She would never know that she was meant to fly."

from Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

Money Lessons Rich Parents Teach Their Kids

"If you want to be rich, solve a problem," writes Siebold. "If you want to be very wealthy, solve a bigger problem."
While "the masses solve small problems for their employers," he says, "the rich solve significant problems and get compensated accordingly."

"It's difficult to invest the necessary time and energy into a profession that bores you or has little meaning beyond money," says Siebold. "Waking up everyday with excitement for going to work is a formula for financial abundance, emotional fulfillment, and life satisfaction."

"If earning money is based on solving problems, and the number of problems is infinite, then your ability to earn money is infinite."

"Spend your time basking in entertainment, and you will struggle your entire life financially.  Invest your time creating solutions to people's problems, and you'll never lose a minutes sleep worrying about how to pay the mortgage."

"Match your talents and interests with a problem people will pay you to solve and go to work until you succeed.  This formula offers you the fulfillments of doing work you love while profiting from solving other people's problems."

Steve Siebold, Secrets Self-Made Millionaires Teach Their Kids

www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/14-money-lessons-rich-parents-teach-their-kids/ar-AAvdtbH

Love reflected back . . .

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
from The Secret of Staying in Love
by John Joseph Powell

Children's Bedtime Prayer - Rebecca Weston - 1890

Father, we thank thee for the night,
and for the pleasant morning light;
for rest and food and loving care,
and all that makes the day so fair.

Help us to do the things we should,
to be to others kind and good;
in all we do, in work or play,
to grow more loving every day.

Children's Bedtime Prayer - Rebecca Weston - 1890

http://www.worldprayers.org/archive/prayers/celebrations/father_we_thank_the_for.html

Psalm 23 : The North American Plains Indian Version

Psalm 23 : The North American Plains Indian Version
August 19, 2012

From their first encounters with Christian missionaries, the North American Plains Indians used universal sign language to communicate  Psalm 23  among tribes who spoke different oral languages.

In 1894, Isabel Crawford, a Baptist missionary to the Kiowa Indians in Oklahoma, translated the Sign Version into literal English. Here is the  Psalm 23 translation:

The Great Father above is a shepherd Chief.
I am His and with Him I want not. 
He throws out to me a rope and
the name of the rope is love and
He draws me to where the grass is green
and the water not dangerous,
and I eat and lie down and am satisfied. 

Sometimes my heart is very weak and falls down but 
He lifts me up again and draws me into a good road. 
His name is WONDERFUL. 

Sometime, it may be very soon,
it may be a long, long time. 
He will draw me into a valley. 
It is dark there, but I’ll be afraid not,
for it is in between those mountains
that the Shepherd Christ will meet me
and the hunger that I have in my heart
all through this life will be satisfied.

He gives me a staff to lean upon.  
He spreads a table before me
with all kinds of foods. 
He puts His hand upon my head
and all the “tired” is gone. 
My cup He fills till it runs over. 

What I tell is true.
I lie not. 
These roads that are “away ahead”
will stay with me through this life and after;
and afterwards I will go to live
in the great house and sit down
with the Shepherd Chief forever.

~ Isabel Crawford (Missionary to the Indians of the plains)

www.davidpaulkirkpatrick.com/2012/08/19/psalm-23-the-north-american-plains-indian-version/

"What am I?"

First grader’s somber response to a class puzzle has the Internet questioning life

USA TODAY   as of 1/4/2018
Ashley May
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/first-grader’s-somber-response-to-a-class-puzzle-has-the-internet-questioning-life/ar-BBHRR07

“I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?”

“The first guess from one of my 1st graders was ‘death’ and such an awed, somber, reflective hush fell over the class that I didn’t want to tell them that actually the answer is the letter e, which just seemed so banal in the moment,” Turner said in a tweet Tuesday that has since gone viral.

Twitter users had their own thoughts. One reply questioned how death is the beginning of everything (receiving more than 145 replies), another said entelechy (connected with Aristotle's distinction between matter and form) seems relevant, and a few said the obvious answer is God.

Turner said other student guesses included: Not everything, all stuff, the end, and "nothingthing."
Maybe these kids are ready for more challenging puzzles.

"Fear does not make lasting peace."

quote from email:
The New York Times   NYTimes.com
Evening Briefing
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Your Tuesday Evening Briefing
By KAREN ZRAICK AND DAVID SCULL

Dave Chappelle released the first comedy special focusing on the #MeToo movement, and our critic says it was a misfire, with bits that feel tired or callous. One example: Mr. Chappelle said that some of the sexual assault victims speaking out were now experiencing “buyer’s remorse.”

But Mr. Chappelle also offers sober political analysis during the show, which is streaming on Netflix. And he makes a passionate argument for focusing on structural issues.
“You got all the bad guys scared, and that’s good,” he says. “But the minute they’re not scared anymore, it will get worse than it was before. Fear does not make lasting peace.”

“quantum entanglement”

A Lifelong Bond

Scientists tell us that there is a most amazing, and thus-far inexplicable, phenomenon called “quantum entanglement.” If two particles of energy are kept in close proximity to each other for a long time, they form a relationship, a kind of bond, that defies the imagination. The connection between these two particles is so strong that if you take one particle to a laboratory in Los Angeles and remove the other one to a lab in New York City, whatever you do to the particle in L.A. will instantly happen to the one in New York, too.

Einstein called it “spooky.” It also defied his theory that nothing can travel faster than light. Somehow, however, once particles form this kind of bond, it cannot be severed no matter how great the distance between the two becomes.

A similar but opposite thing happened between Mary and Elizabeth. In this case, two separate people formed a relationship across a great distance, a relationship that finally drew them together. . . . Mary and Elizabeth also did not live terribly close by each other. But something remarkable, something filled with holy mystery, happened to both of these women and so despite their geographic and chronological distance from each other, these two formed a bond across that distance—a bond that would last the rest of their lives.

~ Scott Hoezee, comments and observations on Luke 1:39-55

"Sometimes you miss so much that you forget you are better without them."

"Sometimes you miss so much that you forget you are better without them."

~ attributed to Marilyn Monroe
http://www.quotesbycelebrities.com/marilyn-monroe-quotes/sometimes-you-miss-so-much-you-forget-you

Look like a girl, act like a lady . . .

Look like a girl,
act like a lady,
think like a man and
work like a dog.

~ traditional


Look like a girl,
act like a lady,
think like a man and
work like a boss.

~ attributed to Marilyn Monroe
http://www.quotesbycelebrities.com/marilyn-monroe-quotes/look-girl.-act-lady.-think

"What God loved about Mary was her willingness."

"What God loved about Mary was her willingness."
~ Truthful Grace
(Mary the mother of Jesus)

what God could do with one person wholly committed to his will

"I heard an evangelist say one night: This century has yet to see what God could do with one person wholly committed to his will."
Moody said in his heart of hearts, "By the grace of God, I'll be that person."
~ Baptist preacher D. L. Moody

Joy Rooted in Obedience

Hannah Whitall Smith's classic, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, contains a line that goes to the heart of the issue of joy in the life of faith. "Perfect obedience would result in perfect happiness if only we had perfect confidence in the power we were obeying."
The joy of our celebration is rooted in the obedience of Mary and Joseph and then of Jesus whose heart's desire was to honor God and obediently carry out the work God gave him to do on our behalf.
John P. Jewell, Lectionary Sermons, www.eSermons.com

Employees come first

"Clients do not come first.
Employees come first. 
If you take care of your employees,
they will take care of the clients."
~ Richard Branson

Plan A to Plan Z

"In the start of the season we have Plan A and in the middle we have Plan Z, and then we go around the alphabet like three times."

~ ESTER LEDECKA, on juggling her schedule as she tries to become the first athlete to compete in both skiing and snowboarding at the Olympics.

New York Times quote of the day, November 27, 2017 email

"Not One Expected Me!"

Surprise in Heaven

I dreamt death came the other night
And Heaven’s gate swung wide.
An angel with a halo bright
Ushered me inside.

And there! To my astonishment
Stood folks I’d judged and labeled
As “quite unfit”, “of little worth”,
And “spiritually disabled”.

Indignant words rose to my lips
But never were set free,
For every face showed stunned surprise --
Not one expected me!

~ Anonymous

"Civilized behavior, I believe, is more often measured by what a person restrains himself from doing than by what he does."

Somebody Else's Kids, by Torey L. Hayden
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York
Copyright © 1981 by Torey L. Hayden

quotes, p. 214, regarding Dr. Boom’s “expert” view of Torey’s career lovingly and effectively helping “the slowest children” as a special education resource teacher:

Dr. Boom:
“You are a gifted teacher, you know that.  Why are you wasting yourself here?” . . .
“Here with these children who’ll never amount to anything. . . .
You ought to get yourself into university teaching or some other place where you can do some real good.  You shouldn’t waste yourself here.”

Torey:
I did not answer.  Civilized behavior, I believe, is more often measured by what a person restrains himself from doing than by what he does.

Having Close Friends in Old Age Brings Well-Being

quote from Time Magazine, June 26, 2017, p. 19

IT'S HEALTHIER TO BE CLOSE WITH FRIENDS THAN FAMILY
"A report in Personal Relationships that included 270,000 people worldwide found that having close friends in old age was a stronger predictor of physical and emotional well-being than close family connections."
--J.Z.

Melania Trump tweet about Charlottesville

"Our country encourages freedom of speech, but let's communicate w/o hate in our hearts. No good comes from violence. #Charlottesville.”

(Snopes confirmed that the claim that Melania's tweet copied from a Michelle Obama speech was a bogus spoof, not true.  There is no record of Michelle saying these or similar words.)
http://www.snopes.com/melania-tweet-charlottesville/

Taylor Swift's "sharp, gutsy and satisfying" testimony

New York Times - "Today's Headlines" email
Friday, August 11, 2017

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I'm being blamed for the unfortunate events of his life that are a product of his decisions. Not mine."

TAYLOR SWIFT, the pop superstar who is being sued by a radio host on claims that she falsely accused him of groping her.

quotes from the trial:

On Mueller's firing Swift said “I am not going to allow your my client to make me feel like it is anyway my fault because it isn’t.”

Comment:

"Just wonderfully stated. Had you kept your hand away - you'd have a job and would not be in court right now."

Swift’s attorney, Douglas Baldridge, said that the star is asking for a $1 verdict because she’s “not trying to bankrupt this man.”
“She’s trying to tell people out there that you can say no when someone puts their hand on you,” added Swift’s counsel. “Grabbing a woman’s rear end is an assault, and it’s always wrong. Any woman — rich, poor, famous or not — is entitled to not have that happen.”

quotes from BBC News:
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40885437

Taylor Swift wasn't backing down in court

By Mark Savage BBC Music reporter, 11 August 2017

Taylor Swift has been praised for her "sharp, gutsy and satisfying" testimony over allegations of sexual assault.
The pop star claims former radio DJ David Mueller groped her while posing for a photo at one of her concerts in 2013 - a charge which he denies.
"Just like her expertly crafted lyrics, Taylor Swift was precise, self-assured and direct," said Billboard magazine.

Speaking in court, Swift refused to back down or give ground to the DJ's lawyer.
Asked if she was critical of her bodyguard, Swift replied: "I'm critical of your client sticking his hand under my skirt and grabbing my ass".

. . .

According to the reporter, the star bristled when she was asked why she hadn't called off the meet-and-greet following the alleged incident.
"Mueller's attorney said, 'You could have taken a break,' and Taylor Swift responded: 'And your client could have taken a normal photo with me.'"

Swift's testimony was "sharp, gutsy and satisfying," said Slate magazine's Christina Cauterucci.
"For young fans of Swift's, hearing a beloved artist speak candidly about the emotional damage of sexual assault and stand up to a courtroom of men trying to prove her wrong could be a formative moment for their developing ideas of gender, sex, and accountability."

Following Swift to the witness stand on Thursday was radio station boss Robert Call, who fired Mueller two days after the alleged incident, acting on a complaint from Swift's radio publicist.
Call said Mueller had initially denied touching Swift, but when shown the photo in question, he responded: "Well, if it did happen, it was accidental."
Call said he fired the DJ because of his shifting accounts of the incident, and because the photo showed that Mueller's hand was "not where it was supposed to be".

Greg Abbott - overcame being crushed by a tree

New York Times
Monday, June 5, 2017
NYTimes.com

Your Monday Evening Briefing  (email)
By INYOUNG KANG AND SANDRA STEVENSON
Good evening. Here’s the latest.

How conservative is conservative enough in Texas?
Greg Abbott is looking for the answer as the first new governor of the state in 14 years. He’s also the first to use a wheelchair. (A tree crushed him in 1984, while he was out for a jog.)
As he navigates battling factions of fellow Republicans, he takes their criticism in context: “When you have your life broken in half and realize that you’re going to be able to piece your life back together and overcome that, everything else in life is pretty easy to deal with.”

Self-will is choosing to Not Love

"God always chooses to love.  Self-will is choosing to Not Love."

~ Truthful Grace

Avoiding Stress

"I probably missed some opportunities to make more money.  But those opportunities generally bring more stress, which I've always tried to avoid."

"I'm sort of like a rock in the ocean.  The waves are crashing against me, but I just stand there."

~ Jens Voigt, German Professional Road Racing Cyclist, author of Shut Up Legs: My Wild Ride On and Off the Bike (with James Startt, published by Rodale, 2016)

"root for the pilot of the plane you are on"

Kasich finds it hard to rule out 2020
Ben Kamisar - The Hill - Sunday, April 30, 2017
https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBAyMao?m=en-us
quotes:
Ohio Gov. John Kasich returned to the national spotlight this week with criticism for the GOP and President Trump, raising questions about the former Republican presidential candidate's political future. . . .
John Weaver, a longtime aide to the governor and an outspoken GOP critic of Trump, told The Hill that Kasich is not looking toward 2020 or having internal meetings to discuss the prospect. . . .
"The governor has said you root for the pilot of the plane you are on," Weaver said. "That doesn't mean you want the same pilot for the next leg."
"You want this pilot to land the plane safely and get the hell out of there."

Expectant Faith

(bold emphasis added by me)

The Heart of Healing, George Bennett, 1972

Chapter X   Three Healing Qualities
Looking back on interviews that brought great blessing, and trying to analyze the inner dispositions of the sufferers at the time, I can see three qualities whose presence appears to be vital to the power of the ministration. They are acceptance, expectant faith and surrender. They do not come all at once.
(p. 84)
It is clear from the Gospels that expectant faith is important if any healing work is to be done. (p. 85)
This quality, when present, provides the necessary environment for an incoming of creative energy. All life is the outward manifestation of God’s creative energies continuously flowing into and sustaining our created order. Where expectant faith is present the creative energies of God have free flow.
There is a significant phrase in the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews—“faith is the substance of things hoped for.” It suggests that faith produces an energy which can be transmuted into material form. (p. 86-87)
I believe that . . . a new act of creation enters into our human life where the quality of the environment is dominated by the presence of expectant faith. If it is present in an interview then the Lord Christ is able to supply a divine energy which He makes available for the release and healing of the sick one. (p. 87)
Where faith is present, there is an outpouring of creative power that can change everything. . . .
The whole onus of faith in an interview is on the minister or helper. It is he, because of his own knowledge of what the Christ can do and because of that other unseen conversation in which he is engaged, who should unconsciously invoke this quality. Yet, when faith comes into the interview, it comes not only to the sufferer. The minister also shares in it and both are affected by it. On the human level it is the encounter between Christian helper and suffer which has brought it into being. On the level of the divine, it is a gift poured in by the Holy Spirit for the needs of that occasion.
A spiritual triangle has been created. The minister and the sufferer form the base and the Holy Spirit is the apex. When the triangle is made complete the atmosphere becomes vibrant with expectant faith. In such circumstances anything can happen. (p. 88)

~ George Bennett, The Heart of Healing. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1972.
(First edition 1971 published by Arthur James Limited of Evesham, Worcs., England.)

Rev. George Bennett, President of the Divine Healing Mission, Warden of Crowhurst Christian Healing Centre, Crowhurst, Battle, East Sussex, England  (associated with the Anglican Church)

God is all Love and wills to do all

Julian of Norwich
Two sins & Love

It is proper for us to have three kinds of knowledge: the first is that we know our Lord God; the second is that we know ourselves, what we are by Him in nature and grace; the third that we know humbly what we ourselves are as regards our sin and our weakness. And the whole showing was given for these three, as I understand it.
All this blessed teaching of our Lord God was shown in three parts: that is to say, by bodily sight, and by word formed in my understanding, and by spiritual insight....
God showed two kinds of sickness of soul that we have: the one is impatience or sloth (for we bear our labor and our pains gloomily); the other is despair or doubtful fear (as I shall say later)....And these two are those which most trouble and tempt us (according to what our Lord showed me), from which He wills that we be put right....
And the cause why we are troubled with these sins is because of our ignorance of Love, for though the three Persons of the Trinity are all equal in themselves, the soul received most understanding in Love; yes, and He wills that in everything we have our contemplation and our enjoyment in Love.
To this knowledge we are most blind; for some of us believe that God is all Power and is able to do all, and that He is all Wisdom and knows how to do all, but that He is all Love and wills to do all, there we stop.
This ignorance is that which most hinders God's lovers, as I see it, for when we begin to hate sin and amend ourselves by the command of Holy Church, still there persists a fear that hinders us....And we do not know to despise it as we do another sin which we recognize (which comes through lack of true judgement) and it is against truth, for of all the properties of the blessed Trinity, it is God's will that we have most confidence and delight in Love.

from Chapters 72 and 73, Revelations of Divine Love
https://www.orderofjulian.org/Two_sins_and_Love

Julian of Norwich (c. 8 November 1342 – c. 1416) was an English anchoress who is regarded as an important Christian mystic. She is venerated in the Anglican and Lutheran churches. Written around 1395, her work, Revelations of Divine Love, is the first book in the English language known to have been written by a woman.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich

Use me, God, in Thy great harvest field. . .

                              Send Me

Use me, God, in Thy great harvest field,
Which stretcheth far and wide like a wide sea;
The gatherers are so few; I fear the precious yield
Will suffer loss. O, find a place for me!

A place where best the strength I have will tell:
It may be one the older toilers shun;
Be it a wide or narrow place, ‘tis well
So that the work it holds be only done.

                                ~ Christina G. Rossetti

Superhuman vitality and magnetism as a teacher

"Western mystics have rarely shed much light on the subject of sexuality.
Eastern mystics, on the other hand, talk openly about sexual desire as a force in consciousness. It is not good or evil in itself, they insist, any more than an electric storm is. Rather, it is energy, raw power, and our task as human beings is to come to terms with that power—not to try and destroy it or suppress it, but to claim it and draw upon it for the good of all life.
The Eastern tradition maintains that the individual who succeeds in tapping into that force will have superhuman vitality, on the one hand, and tremendous magnetism as a teacher, on the other. It is interesting to reflect that Catherine of Siena was notable in both regards."

~ Carol L. Flinders, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics (p. 235). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

Pray first before doing anything worthwhile

"Listen, Child of God, to your teacher’s wisdom. Pay attention to what your heart hears. Make sure you freely accept and live out the loving Father’s directions.
Working at obedience is the way to return to Christ when the carelessness of disobedience has taken you off-path. Follow Christ by wearing the strong, sacred shield of submission.
Pray first before doing anything worthwhile. Then persist and never falter in prayer. God loves us as his own children, and forgives us, so we must not grieve him by rejecting that love and doing evil.
We must always make the best use of the good things God gives us."

~ St. Benedict, c. 480-550 AD in Italy, a patron saint of Europe and students

The strengthening dialogue of community

"St. Basil stresses in his Rule that the dialogue of community nurtures the individual: 'In this communal conversation, whatever is twisted in us will be straightened and whatever is good will be strengthened, and it will help us avoid being condemned with those who are only wise in their own eyes.'"

~ Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Man of Blessing: A Life of Saint Benedict
(Kindle Locations 589-591). Paraclete Press. Kindle Edition.

Questions

"Questions are not scary.
What is scary is when people don't have any.
What is tragic is faith that has no room for them."

~ Rob Bell, one of the most controversial figures in contemporary Christianity

comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God

"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep
pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the
heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes
wisdom to us by the aweful grace of God."

~ Aeschylus
Greek tragic dramatist and poet (525 BC - 456 BC)

the pain of discipline and the pain of regret

“There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weights tonnes.”
~ Jim Rohn

The News - Companion Fear

           THE NEWS

Companion Fear is at my side,
   I cannot make him leave,
He whispers horror in my ear,
   He twitches at my sleeve.

He presses down upon my heart,
   He catches at my breath,
He does not need to put in words
   The hovering of death.

Companion Fear is at my side,
   I cannot make him go,
For we are bound in common dread
   Of what we do not know.

~ Sec

Sparing the Fire

Sparing the Fire

Each night I spare the fire,
my last act before retiring.
I bury two fresh lumps of peat
Deep within the embers.
Then tomorrow when I wake
I can poke the fire to life.

At death may God spare me.
When they bury my body
Deep within the boggy peat,
May my soul continue to glow.
So when the last trumpet sounds
I can rise with Christ to life.

~ Celtic Poem

Heaven Now

Heaven Now

If I were in heaven
I would play my harp,
     and sing songs of praise
     with the angels.
If I were in heaven,
I would dance with joy,
     and fill the air with laughter.

Let earth be like heaven,
     and people like angels;
Let all sing songs of praise.
Don’t wait to die,
     enjoy heaven now;
Don’t argue or cavil –
     just dance.

~ Celtic Poem

"It's always better to talk with each other than about each other"

Merkel in US for talks with Trump

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to meet President Donald Trump in Washington, with transatlantic trade and Nato ties high on the agenda. . . .
Ahead of Friday's talks, Mrs Merkel told a German newspaper she was looking forward to her first meeting with President Trump.
"It's always better to talk with each other than about each other," she told Saarbruecker Zeitung.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39300452

What does that word really mean?

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

Can Man Live Without God? No! But we try all the time....

following quoted from http://www.apuritansmind.com/apologetics/steveturnercreed/

An excerpt from Ravi Zacharias’ book “Can Man Live Without God?”
Steve Turner says “No!”…But we try all the time….

Creed - by Steve Turner
a satirical poem on the modern mind

We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don’t hurt anyone
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your knowledge.

We believe in sex before, during, and after marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that sodomy’s OK.
We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that everything’s getting better
despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated
And you can prove anything with evidence.

We believe there’s something in horoscopes
UFO’s and bent spoons.
Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,
Mohammed, and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher though we think
His good morals were bad.

We believe that all religions are basically the same-
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation,
sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

We believe that after death comes the Nothing
Because when you ask the dead what happens
they say nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied,
then its compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Kahn

We believe in Masters and Johnson
What’s selected is average.
What’s average is normal.
What’s normal is good.

We believe in total disarmament.
We believe there are direct links between warfare and bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors .
And the Russians would be sure to follow.

We believe that man is essentially good.
It’s only his behavior that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Society is the fault of conditions.
Conditions are the fault of society.

We believe that each man must find the truth that
is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust.
History will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth
that there is no absolute truth.

We believe in the rejection of creeds,
And the flowering of individual thought.

If chance be the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky
and when you hear
State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!
It is but the sound of man
worshipping his maker.

Steve Turner, (English journalist), “Creed,” his satirical poem on the modern mind.
Taken from Ravi Zacharias’ book Can Man live Without God? Pages 42-44

quote above is from
http://www.apuritansmind.com/apologetics/steveturnercreed/

"History repeats itself, has to, nobody listens"

"History repeats itself, has to, nobody listens"
~ Steve Turner

"They only differ on matters of creation sin heaven hell God and salvation"

quote:
This reminds me of Steven Turner’s satirical observation of this sort of thinking in his poem “Creed.” “We believe that all religions are basically the same, at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation sin heaven hell God and salvation.”
This is, as C. S. Lewis called it, “patronizing nonsense.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/reza-aslan-doesnt-get-religion-cnns-tour-de-farce

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

The Merchant of Venice  William Shakespeare

SCENE III. Venice. A public place.
Enter BASSANIO and SHYLOCK
SHYLOCK
Three thousand ducats; well.
BASSANIO
Ay, sir, for three months.
. . .
SHYLOCK
I cannot tell; I make it breed as fast:
But note me, signior.
ANTONIO
Mark you this, Bassanio,
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/merchant/merchant.1.3.html

“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.”

“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.”
~ Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton, the first female mayor of a major Canadian city

"the story that we tell is the one that becomes truth"

“[Jackie Kennedy] is such an amazing woman… Really having the understanding of history to very strongly and quickly define her husband’s legacy after the assassination. She knew that the story that we tell is the one that becomes truth.”
~ author unknown

When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Proverbs 16:6-7 ESV
By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
and by the fear of the LORD one turns away from evil.
When a man's ways please the LORD,
he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Proverbs 16:6-7 NRSV
By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
and by the fear of the LORD one avoids evil.
When the ways of people please the LORD,
he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.

the best fake Lincoln quote

"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that is difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine."
~ Abraham Lincoln

Aviation Quotes

Aviation Quotes from www.airborne-aviation.com.au/resources/aviation-quotes.php

• Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.
• Truly superior pilots are those who use their superior judgment to avoid those situations where they might have to use their superior skills.
• The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
• In a twin-engine aircraft, the purpose of the second engine is to supply the pilot with enough power to fly to the scene of the crash.
• When a prang seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity, as slowly and gently as possible.
  - Advice given to RAF pilots during W.W.II.
• When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No-one has ever collided with the sky.
• Try to learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.
• If God had meant man to fly, he'd have given him lots more money.
• You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.
• Airspeed, altitude or brains: Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.
• When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something may be forgotten.
• Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day.
  - Layton A. Bennett
• Never fly the 'A' model of anything.
  - Ed Thompson
• A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum.
  - Jon McBride, astronaut
• If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
  - Bob Hoover
• Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you.
  - Richard Herman, Jr., 'Firebreak'
• There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime.
  - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970.
• Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.
• The three most common expressions in aviation are, "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" and "Oh Crap".
• Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers.
• A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication.
• Helicopters are for the rich... or the enlisted.
• We have a perfect record in aviation: we never left one up there!
• Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries.
• Helicopters don't fly... they just beat the air into submission.
• Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding it.
• What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots?
  If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies;
  If ATC screws up, the pilot dies.
• If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to.
• Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.
  - Captain A. G. Lamplugh
• In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks.- Wilbur Wright in a letter to his father, September 1900
• The ultimate responsibility of the pilot is to fulfill the dreams of the countless millions of earthbound ancestors who could only stare skyward and wish.
• Helicopters can't fly; they're just so ugly the earth repels them.
• If helicopters are so safe, how come there are no vintage / classic helicopter fly-ins?
• A 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away.
• A 'great' landing is one after which they can use the aeroplane again.
• Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory... in other words, for every take-off, there WILL be a landing.
• If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. That is, unless you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.
• Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is what's dangerous.
• One of the most important skills that a pilot must develop is the skill to ignore those things that were designed by non-pilots to get the pilot's attention.
• A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down - all of them trying to become random in motion.
• It's always better to be down on the ground wishing you were up in the air than up in the air wishing you were down on the ground.
• The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. Large angle of arrival, small probability of survival and vice versa.
• Stay out of clouds. The silver lining everyone keeps talking about might be another aircraft going in the opposite direction. Reliable sources also report that mountains have been known to hide out in clouds.
• Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal the number of take-offs you've made.
• A meteorologist is just a common person who went to school long enough to be paid to guess what the weather is going to be.
• You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.
• In the ongoing battle between objects made of aluminum going hundreds of miles per hour and the ground going zero miles per hour, the ground has yet to lose.
• Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, experience usually comes from bad judgment.
• Keep looking around. There's always something you've missed.
• Remember, gravity is not just a good idea. It's the law. And it's not subject to repeal.
• There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. However, there are no old, bold pilots.
• Always remember you fly an aeroplane with your head, not your hands.
• "Unskilled" pilots are always found in the wreckage with their hand around the microphone.
• Remember that the radio is only an electronic suggestion box for the pilot. Sometimes the only way to clear up a problem is to turn it off.
• Flying the aircraft is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.
• It is solely the pilot's responsibility to never let any other thing touch his aircraft.
• You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi to the ramp.
• Those who hoot with the owls by night, should not fly with the eagles by day.
• Things which do you no good in aviation:
  The sky above you.
  The runway behind you.
  The fuel still in the truck.
  Half a second ago.
  Approach plates in the car.
  The airspeed you don't have.
• What's the difference between God and fighter pilots? God doesn't think he's a fighter pilot.
• Trust your captain but keep your seat belt securely fastened.
• An aircraft may disappoint a good pilot, but it won't surprise him.
• There are only two things required to fly a modern airliner: a pilot and a dog. It's the pilot's job to feed the dog. It's the dog's job to bite the pilot if he touches anything in the cockpit.
• Aviation is not so much a profession as it is a disease.
• There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
• It's a good landing if you can still get the doors open.
• Passengers prefer old captains and young flight attendants.
• The only thing worse than a captain who never flew as copilot is a copilot who once was a captain.
• It's best to keep the pointed end going forward as much as possible.
• If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter... and therefore, unsafe.
• If something hasn't broken on your helicopter... it's about to.
• Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase head wind.
• A thunderstorm is never as bad on the inside as it appears on the outside. It's worse.
• I know there's a lot of money in aviation because I put it there.
• It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation. You just start off with a large fortune.
• A male pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when he's flying, and about flying when he's with a woman.
• A fool and his money are soon flying more aircraft than he can handle.
• The last thing every pilot does before leaving the aircraft after making a gear up landing is to put the gear selection lever in the 'down' position.
• You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
• Rule one: No matter what else happens, fly the airplane.
• Flying is hours of boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror.
• Fly it until the last piece stops moving.
• It's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing you were down here.
• Believe your instruments.
• Think ahead of your airplane.
• I'd rather be lucky than good.
• The propeller is just a big fan in the front of the plane to keep the pilot cool. Want proof? Make it stop; then watch the pilot break out into a sweat.
• If we are what we eat, then some pilots should eat more chicken.
• Without fuel, pilots become pedestrians.
• Regards engine power: Lots is good, more is better, and too much is just enough.
• If you're ever faced with a forced landing at night, turn on the landing lights to see the landing area. If you don't like what you see, turn 'em back off.
• A checkride ought to be like a skirt, short enough to be interesting but still be long enough to cover everything.
• Experience is the knowledge that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
• No one has ever collided with the sky.
• Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
• Experience is a hard teacher. First comes the test, then the lesson.
• Never let an airplane take you somewhere you brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
• Don't drop the aircraft in order to fly the microphone.
• Hovering is for pilots who love to fly but have no place to go.
• Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man.... Landing is the first!
• The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival.
• If you've got time to spare, go by air.
• IFR: I Follow Roads.
• If you don't gear up your brain before takeoff, you'll probably gear up your airplane on landing.
• In thrust I trust.
• Helicopters are for people who want to fly but don't want to go anywhere.
• The future in aviation is the next 30 seconds. Long term planning is an hour and a half.
• I'm not speeding officer — I'm just flying low.
• The only thing that scares me about flying is the drive to the airport.
• Young man, was that a landing or were we shot down?
• It is far better to arrive late in this world than early in the next.
• Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous.
• You can land anywhere once.
• I want to die like my grandfather did, peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
• The nicer an airplane looks, the better it flies.
• The real value of twin engine aircraft is it will double your chances of engine failure.
• CAUTION: Aviation may be hazardous to your wealth.
• If it ain't broke, don't fix it; if it ain't fixed, don't fly it.
• The worst day of flying still beats the best day of real work.
• It at first you don't succeed, well, so much for skydiving.
• It is said that two wrongs do not make a right, but two wrights do make an aeroplane.
• Without ammunition the USAF would be just another expensive flying club.
• Nothing flies without fuel, so let's start with some coffee.
• Any comment about how well things are going is an absolute guarantee of trouble.
• A terminal forecast is a horoscope with numbers.
• I give that landing a 9 . . . on the Richtor scale.
• Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down.
• Aviation has created many millionaires, primarily from the ranks of multi-millionaires.
• Some pilots will make an emergency out of a bad magneto check. Others, upon losing a wing, will ask for a lower altitude.
• Remember, you’re always a student in an airplane.
• Keep looking around; there's always something you've missed.
• Fuel in the tanks is limited. Gravity is forever.
• Never trust a fuel gauge.

"I'm sorry"

a note about apologies from the New York Times, Jan. 30, 2017:

"Most times when we say, 'I’m sorry,' it’s for something trivial. But when it matters, watch your wording.
Psychologists and other experts say the best apologies are short and don’t include rationalizations or requests for forgiveness.
And 'I’m sorry you feel that way' really means 'I’m not really sorry at all.'"

Together

Coming together is a beginning,
staying together is progress,
and working together is success.
~ Henry Ford

Thank-You Note Suggestions from "Ask Amy"

"A personal present from an individual requires a handwritten individual thank-you.
A gift presented at a party on behalf of a roomful of people can be acknowledged with a verbal thank-you to everyone at the party either individually or, acoustics and topography permitting, all at once.
A group gift delivered at home (or tossed in an inbox at work) can be acknowledged with a card posted in the lunchroom or an email.
Miss Manners agrees that those who are not thanked cannot reasonably be expected to participate in the future."

The Washington Post, January 24, 2017
Ask Amy column

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ask-amy-should-hurtful-mother-be-banned-from-her-childs-wedding/2017/01/22/5a308146-d8f1-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html

Did Martin Luther King Jr. steal the "I have a dream" part of his speech?

Yahoo Answers
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091209211248AAeJ209

Did martin luther king steal the I have a dream part of his speech?

Best Answer: 
Critics have charged that King plagiarized that too by borrowing from a speech given to the Republican convention in 1952 by an African-American preacher named Archibald Carey, Jr.
Some of them say he gave Cary's speech word-for-word.
It can probably be said that King borrowed from the idea of the speech by Carey (who was a friend of King's), but only the last couple of paragraph's resembled Carey's speech and little of it is word-for-word.
Both men spun their remarks off the words of the song "My Country 'Tis of Thee."

King's speech ended with:
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old ***** spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Carey's speech ended with:
We, ***** Americans, sing with all loyal Americans: My country 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, Land of the Pilgrims' pride From every mountainside Let freedom ring!
That's exactly what we mean--from every mountain side, let freedom ring. Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain
in Georgia, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia--let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States, but for the disinherited of all the earth--may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING!

“The second one is always harder.”

quote from a reader of the Carolyn Hax column:

Readers Dish on Family Dynamics

When my husband’s aunt died, I was devastated. Over the years we had become very close. She was kind to me and I admired and loved her.

When she died, my husband’s family closed ranks. I was not allowed to participate in planning the memorial service and no one seemed to understand how deeply I was grieving. It was especially hard because it was a few months after my mother died. In one summer I had lost a mother and a mentor.

At the funeral of my husband’s aunt, I broke down, and people were looking at me strangely and bypassing me to comfort the “real” family. The only one who understood was the minister who had officiated at the service. She pulled me aside and said, “The second one is always harder.” Those words meant a lot to me.

N.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/readers-dish-on-family-dynamics/2017/01/22/109c16fa-df43-11e6-918c-99ede3c8cafa_story.html

"This man has never had children."

Garrison Keillor: I think I need a new religion
Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post
Published 8:47 am, Thursday, January 19, 2017

. . . So I've been shopping around for a new religion to see me through the next four years. . . . I'm looking around for other options.
Buddhism involves way too much sitting still for my taste; the Dalai Lama basically says, "Be gentle. Listen to the universe. Live in the moment. Let happiness flow through you." And I think to myself, "This man has never had children."

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Garrison-Keillor-I-think-I-need-a-new-religion-10868744.php

“I’m sorry to hear you feel this way.”

Carolyn Hax: Don’t hurl online foulness back — stay polite and exit the cesspit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/carolyn-hax-dont-hurl-online-foulness-back--stay-polite-and-exit-the-cesspit/2017/01/10/290dee78-d455-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html

quote, bold added:

By Carolyn Hax Columnist January 11 
Adapted from an online discussion.

Dear Carolyn: My adult niece, 40, posted a very nasty comment about me to a social-media site because of my stance that women and girls should NOT be judged on their looks. This stance was never communicated to her specifically, it is just something I occasionally reference.
She said of me: “She’s totally nuts. She’s got a ton of money, no kids and clearly no joy in her life, either.”
How do I get over the hurt, since I have no idea where the hate originated?
Family Member

Family Member: This sounds like the tip of the storyberg here, but, just going on what you gave me, I suggest you comment on her original nasty post so she knows you know what she wrote. Utterly without inflection, write, “I’m sorry to hear you feel this way.” That’s it, then block her on that site.
Whatever you may or may not have done to offend her, the fact that she responded this way is cowardly and completely on her. It also hints at a profoundly unhappy person, which also is about her, not you. The hate is her damage, not yours.
And the onus is on her to rebuild a relationship with you if that’s what she wants. In the meantime, heal by devoting your time and concern to people who welcome you — and civility — in their lives.

"It will all be OK in the end. If it isn't OK, it isn't the end."

"It will all be OK in the end.
If it isn't OK, it isn't the end."
~ author unknown

Unspoken thought of a grieving parent

"If you mention my child’s name, I may cry. But if you don’t mention it, you will break my heart."
~ author unknown

“Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.”

quotes:

“Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.”
~ St. Augustine (354-430)

“No Scientific Christian ever considers hatred or execration to be ‘justifiable’ in any circumstances, but whatever your opinion about that might be, there is no question about its practical consequences to you. You might as well swallow a dose of prussic acid in two gulps, and think to protect yourself by saying, ‘This one is for Robespierre; and this one for the Bristol murderer.’ You will hardly have any doubt as to who will receive the benefit of the poison.”
~ The Sermon on the Mount (1938) by Emmet Fox—a text that later became popular with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), where the saying was disseminated widely.

In 2003, American actress and author Carrie Fisher wrote: “She’d worked so hard to turn her boiling grudge against Leland down to a low-simmering ache. It was best put by what she’d heard someone in AA say a few years back: ‘Resentment is like drinking a poison and then waiting for the other person to die.’”
Fisher repeated the quote in 2008 in her book Wishful Drinking.

“In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
~ Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (1999)

"Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done, or putting a false label on an evil act. It means rather that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."
~ Lewis B. Smedes

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of  throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
~ Buddha in the Suttas (Buddhist scriptures)

many of these quotes are from
https://www.quora.com/Who-said-holding-a-grudge-is-like-drinking-poison-and-waiting-for-the-other-person-to-die

Revenge is an example of the sunk costs fallacy. Forgiveness is a decision to move forward regardless of sunk costs.

quote, underlines and italics added by blogger:

The Paradox of Revenge
Revenge originates from the primal need for self-defense. In today's world, it is often abused as a destructive and futile response to anger or humiliation. . . .
Most strategies for revenge fail because they attempt to change the past. Unfortunately once the damage is done and the injury, insult, humiliation, or other loss occurs, the clock cannot be turned back and the loss is permanent. In addition, the value of the loss to the offended is seen as much greater than any benefit gained by the offender. As a result the offense represents an unrecoverable loss to society as a whole. Successful strategies for revenge look far into the future and recognize that the cycle of vengeance and retaliation can only spiral toward tragedy and are best stopped before they are started..
Revenge is a doomed attempt to eliminate shame and increase stature by asserting dominance. It fails because asserting dominance does not increase stature, instead it usually increases violence. Also, remorse cannot be coerced, it has to be discovered.
Evidence indicates that forgiveness increases self-esteem and decreases anxiety.
Sunk Costs
Economics and business decision-making recognize sunk costs as the costs that have already been incurred and which can never be recovered to any significant degree. Economic theory proposes that a rational actor does not let sunk costs influence a decision because past costs cannot be recovered in any case. This is also called the bygones principle; let bygones be bygones. This recognizes that you cannot change the past. The fallacy of sunk costs is to consider sunk costs when making a decision. Sound business decisions are based on a forward-looking view, ignoring sunk costs.
Revenge is an attempt to recover sunk costs; it is an example of the sunk costs fallacy. Forgiveness is a decision to move forward regardless of sunk costs. Sound emotional decisions, like sound business decisions, are based on a forward-looking view.

http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/revenge.htm

Carrie Fisher Dies at 60

quote:
Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60: 'She Was Loved by the World and She Will Be Missed Profoundly'
BY LINDSAY KIMBLE•@LEKIMBLE
POSTED ON DECEMBER 27, 2016 AT 12:44PM EST
http://people.com/movies/carrie-fisher-dies/
Carrie Fisher, the actress best known as Star Wars‘ Princess Leia Organa, has died after suffering a heart attack. She was 60.
Family spokesman Simon Halls released a statement to PEOPLE on behalf of Fisher’s daughter, Billie Lourd:
“It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning,” reads the statement.
“She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly,” says Lourd. “Our entire family thanks you for your thoughts and prayers.”
Fisher was flying from London to Los Angeles on Friday, Dec. 23, when she went into cardiac arrest. Paramedics removed her from the flight and rushed her to a nearby hospital, where she was treated for a heart attack. She later died in the hospital.
The daughter of showbiz veteran Debbie Reynolds and entertainer Eddie Fisher, Fisher was brought up in the sometimes tumultuous world of film, theatre and television.
. . .
The star’s substance abuse problem was well-known, starting at only age 13 when she first started smoking marijuana, Fisher previously told The Telegraph. She said she later dabbled in drugs like cocaine and LSD. Fisher’s addiction was largely profiled in her 1987 best-selling, semi-autobiographical novel, Postcards from the Edge, which was later turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep.
“I never could take alcohol. I always said I was allergic to alcohol, and that’s actually a definition to alcoholism — an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind,” Fisher told the Herald-Tribune in 2013. “So I didn’t do other kinds of drugs until I was about 20. Then, by the time I was 21 it was LSD. I didn’t love cocaine, but I wanted to feel any way other than the way I did, so I’d do anything.”
In 1985, Fisher was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she told the Herald-Tribune, and subsequently became an outspoken advocate for mental health awareness.
Throughout much of the ’90s, Fisher focused on her writing career, publishing Surrender the Pink and Delusions of Grandma. In addition, Fisher reportedly helped craft the scripts for numerous Hollywood films, going uncredited, for films like The Wedding Singer, Hook and Sister Act.

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You Forgot About Grace Again: How a Gracious God's Grace-filled Grace Graces Us All, by Mark Galli

The Galli Report - Dec. 23, 2016 email
Mark Galli, editor, Christianity Today

RE: imaginary top 10 books of 2016 by Christian authors :-)

"when one CT editor asked the staff what would be a book by Mark Galli that would make this list, one clever associate said: You Forgot About Grace Again: How a Gracious God's Grace-filled Grace Graces Us All.
Uh, I stand convicted. . . ."

Christmas past and present

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
~ Phyllis Diller

also read:

Christmas is a time when every girl wants her past forgotten and her present remembered.

Forgiveness has freed me of him completely

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"He is not a part of my life anymore. Forgiveness has freed me of that, of him completely. I'm not going to make him a lifetime partner."

THE REV. ANTHONY B. THOMPSON, whose wife was killed by Dylann S. Roof in the shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C.

New York Times, Dec. 16, 2016

go after what you want

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it.
If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.
If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”
~ Nora Roberts

just beyond our comfort zone

"We can do anything we want, the trick is, it’s usually waiting for us just beyond our comfort zone."
~ Julia Pimsleur

“faire grâce” - to forgive

the phrase “faire grâce” in French means to forgive, to spare, to remit

"faire" means to make
“grâce” means grace or favor

"to see the light you have to feel a little heat"

"There's an old saying in Washington that sometimes 'to see the light you have to feel a little heat'"

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
~ Ronald Reagan
www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronaldreag383264.html

Decisively and with confidence

"A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence."
~ Marvin Bower

Ancient Healing Prayer

"Let us pray. God of heavenly power, by Your word You drive away all weakness and sickness from the bodies of men. In your mercy, be with Your servant now so that his (her) infirmity may depart, his (her) full strength and health may return, and he (she) may bless Your holy name. Through Christ our LORD. Amen."

~ Francis MacNutt, "Healing," Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1999, p. 69

"Jesus did not heal people to prove that He was God; He healed them because He was God."

~ Francis MacNutt, "Healing," p. 85

"Jesus saves us from personal sin and from the effects of original sin, which include ignorance, weakness of will, disoriented emotions, physical illness, and death."

~ Francis MacNutt, "Healing," p. 39

If you want to make peace . . .

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.  You talk to your enemies."

~ Moshe Dayan  (1915-1981)

Healing and New Life

As Francis MacNutt says in his book Healing, Jesus came to free us “from sin, from ignorance, . . . from weakness of purpose, from disoriented emotions, and from physical sickness—from all the sickness, therefore, that destroys or lessens our humanity—in order to give us new life, a new relationship of love and union with his Father through the power of the Holy Spirit.  The saving power of Jesus frees us from all those elements of evil that prevent us from entering our new life with God.”

~ Francis MacNutt, Healing, Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1999, p. 39-40.

The most important thing in communication

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

~ Peter F. Drucker

“In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.”

http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/2016/10/03/evening-briefing?nlid=14249205

“In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.”
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that advice on marriage, given to her by her mother-in-law on her wedding day, had helped in her career as well.

Receiving Grace

"Grace is something that if God doesn't give it to you,
you can't have it."

~ Author Unknown

Bad Habits You Must Eliminate from Your Daily Routine

Bad Habits You Must Eliminate from Your Daily Routine
Published on September 28, 2016

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bad-habits-you-must-eliminate-from-your-daily-routine-bradberry

Dr. Travis Bradberry
Coauthor Emotional Intelligence 2.0 & President at TalentSmart
(Note: underlines added by blogger)

You are the sum of your habits. When you allow bad habits to take over, they dramatically impede your path to success. The challenge is bad habits are insidious, creeping up on you slowly until you don’t even notice the damage they’re causing.
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
– Warren Buffett
Breaking bad habits requires self-control—and lots of it. Research indicates that it’s worth the effort, as self-control has huge implications for success.
University of Pennsylvania psychologists Angela Duckworth and Martin Seligman conducted a study where they measured college students’ IQ scores and levels of self-control upon entering university. Four years later, they looked at the students’ grade point averages (GPA) and found that self-control was twice as important as IQ in earning a high GPA.
The self-control required to develop good habits (and stop bad ones) also serves as the foundation for a strong work ethic and high productivity. Self-control is like a muscle—to build it up you need to exercise it. Practice flexing your self-control muscle by breaking the following bad habits:
Using your phone, tablet, or computer in bed. This is a big one that most people don't even realize harms their sleep and productivity. Short-wavelength blue light plays an important role in your mood, energy level, and sleep quality. In the morning, sunlight contains high concentrations of this blue light. When your eyes are exposed to it directly, the blue light halts production of the sleep-inducing hormone melatonin and makes you feel more alert. In the afternoon, the sun's rays lose their blue light, which allows your body to produce melatonin and start making you sleepy. By the evening, your brain doesn’t expect any blue light exposure and is very sensitive to it.
Most of our favorite evening devices—laptops, tablets, and mobile phones—emit short-wavelength blue light brightly and right in your face. This exposure impairs melatonin production and interferes with your ability to fall asleep as well as with the quality of your sleep once you do nod off. As we’ve all experienced, a poor night’s sleep has disastrous effects. The best thing you can do is to avoid these devices after dinner (television is OK for most people as long as they sit far enough away from the set).
Impulsively surfing the Internet. It takes you 15 consecutive minutes of focus before you can fully engage in a task. Once you do, you fall into a euphoric state of increased productivity called flow. Research shows that people in a flow state are five times more productive than they otherwise would be. When you click out of your work because you get an itch to check the news, Facebook, a sport’s score, or what have you, this pulls you out of flow. This means you have to go through another 15 minutes of continuous focus to reenter the flow state. Click in and out of your work enough times, and you can go through an entire day without experiencing flow.
Checking your phone during a conversation. Nothing turns people off like a mid-conversation text message or even a quick glance at your phone. When you commit to a conversation, focus all your energy on the conversation. You will find that conversations are more enjoyable and effective when you immerse yourself in them.
Using multiple notifications. Multiple notifications are a productivity nightmare. Studies have shown that hopping on your phone and e-mail every time they ping for your attention causes your productivity to plummet. Getting notified every time a message drops onto your phone or an e-mail arrives in your inbox might feel productive, but it isn’t. Instead of working at the whim of your notifications, pool all your e-mails/texts and check them at designated times (e.g., respond to your e-mails every hour). This is a proven, productive way to work.
Saying “yes” when you should say “no.” Research conducted at the University of California in San Francisco shows that the more difficulty that you have saying no, the more likely you are to experience stress, burnout, and even depression, all of which erode self-control. Saying no is indeed a major self-control challenge for many people. “No” is a powerful word that you should not be afraid to wield. When it’s time to say no, emotionally intelligent people avoid phrases like “I don’t think I can” or “I’m not certain.” Saying no to a new commitment honors your existing commitments and gives you the opportunity to successfully fulfill them. Just remind yourself that saying no is an act of self-control now that will increase your future self-control by preventing the negative effects of over commitment.
Thinking about toxic people. There are always going to be toxic people who have a way of getting under your skin and staying there. Each time you find yourself thinking about a coworker or person who makes your blood boil, practice being grateful for someone else in your life instead. There are plenty of people out there who deserve your attention, and the last thing you want to do is think about the people who don’t matter when there are people who do.
Multitasking during meetings. You should never give anything half of your attention, especially meetings. If a meeting isn’t worth your full attention, then you shouldn’t be attending it in the first place; and if the meeting is worth your full attention, then you need to get everything you can out of it. Multitasking during meetings hurts you by creating the impression that you believe you are more important than everyone else.
Gossiping. Gossipers derive pleasure from other people’s misfortunes. It might be fun to peer into somebody else’s personal or professional faux pas at first, but over time, it gets tiring, makes you feel gross, and hurts other people. There are too many positives out there and too much to learn from interesting people to waste your time talking about the misfortune of others.
“Great minds discuss ideas, average ones discuss events, and small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Waiting to act until you know you’ll succeed. Most writers spend countless hours brainstorming their characters and plots, and they even write page after page that they know they’ll never include in the books. They do this because they know that ideas need time to develop. We tend to freeze up when it’s time to get started because we know that our ideas aren’t perfect and that what we produce might not be any good. But how can you ever produce something great if you don’t get started and give your ideas time to evolve? Author Jodi Picoult summarized the importance of avoiding perfectionism perfectly: “You can edit a bad page, but you can’t edit a blank page.”
Comparing yourself to other people. When your sense of pleasure and satisfaction are derived from comparing yourself to others, you are no longer the master of your own happiness. When you feel good about something that you’ve done, don’t allow anyone’s opinions or accomplishments take that away from you. While it’s impossible to turn off your reactions to what others think of you, you don’t have to compare yourself to others, and you can always take people’s opinions with a grain of salt. That way, no matter what other people are thinking or doing, your self-worth comes from within. Regardless of what people think of you at any particular moment, one thing is certain—you’re never as good or bad as they say you are.
Bringing It All Together
By practicing self-control to break these bad habits, you can simultaneously strengthen your self-control muscle and abolish nasty habits that have the power to bring your career to a grinding halt.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dr. Travis Bradberry is the award-winning co-author of the #1 bestselling book, Emotional Intelligence 2.0, and the cofounder of TalentSmart, the world's leading provider of emotional intelligence tests and training, serving more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies. His bestselling books have been translated into 25 languages and are available in more than 150 countries. Dr. Bradberry has written for, or been covered by, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Harvard Business Review.

Avoiding Perfectionism When Writing

“You can edit a bad page, but you can’t edit a blank page.”

~ Author Jodi Picoult

Chains of Habit

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

~ Warren Buffett

Insecurity, Impulse Control and a Superiority Complex

"A blend of insecurity, impulse control and a superiority complex makes some groups and individuals disproportionately successful."

~ from The Triple Package by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld

'The Magnificent Seven's' Haley Bennett

'The Magnificent Seven's' Haley Bennett

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-magnificent-7-haley-bennett-20160907-snap-story.html

Quotes:
"Haley was always there floating above the heat of the fray with pure positivity."
“Throughout, she was the lone woman in the middle of an absolute tsunami of testosterone,” Hawke adds. “But she kept her cool.”

A Brief Summary of Scripture

quote:

A friend of mind describes the whole of Scripture in this way:

Old Testament:
They tried to kill us.  We survived.
Let's eat!

New Testament:
I love you! I forgive you!
Let's eat!

~ Leonard Sweet

It was only an idol

Anything that abandons you or fails you or lets you down was only an idol. Idols always disillusion you. If something let you down, it was only an idol. God will never fail you or forsake you.
~ Truthful Grace

Be Normal?

comment from a male colleague who resented my efforts to excel at my work:

"Why can't you just be normal?"

~ Truthful Grace

Owning Our Story

"When we deny our stories, they define us.
When we own our stories, we get to write the ending."
~ Brené Brown

“Jesus called. He wants His religion back!”

observed a bumper sticker:
“Jesus called. He wants His religion back!”

Finding the Time

"It's really hard to find the time to work out when you really don't want to."

~ comedian Jim Gaffigan

Time and Money

"The poor sell their time for scraps of money.
 The wealthy give scraps of money to buy time."

~ author unknown

“Words that come from the heart enter the heart.”

“Words that come from the heart enter the heart.”
~ talmudic rabbis

God's Way leads to an Endless Hope

"Man's way leads to a hopeless end while God's way leads to an endless hope."

~ unknown

15 Quotes from "Frozen"

15 LOVELY QUOTES FROM FROZEN TO WARM YOUR HEART
 quoted from www.christianquotes.info/movie-quotes/15-lovely-quotes-frozen-warm-heart/

Disney’s Frozen is a movie all about love. We all love loyal Sven the reindeer, happy Olaf the snowman, and of course Princess Anna, the girl who wouldn’t give up on her sister. Here we’ve collected fifteen funny, wise, and heart-warming quotes from this magical winter wonderland movie about love.

15
I like warm hugs!
Olaf (Josh Gad)
14
You don’t have to live in fear, ’cause for the first time in forever, I will be right here.
Anna (Kristen Bell)
13
Let it go!
Elsa (Idina Menzel)
12
People make bad choices, if they’re mad or scared or stressed. But throw a little love their way, and you’ll bring out their best!
Bulda (Maia Wilson)
11
Some people are worth melting for.
Olaf (Josh Gad)
10
They say have courage, and I’m trying to. I’m right out here for you, just let me in.
Anna (Kristen Bell)
9
You can’t marry a man you just met.
Elsa (Idina Menzel)
8
I don’t have a skull. Or bones.
Olaf (Josh Gad)
7
It’s not nice to throw people!
Anna (Kristen Bell)
6
Your life awaits! Go enjoy the sun and open up the gates.
Elsa (Idina Menzel)
5
Why do you shut the world out? What are you so afraid of?
Anna (Kristen Bell)
4
Love is putting someone else’s needs before yours, like you know how Kristoff brought you back here to Hans and left you forever.
Olaf (Josh Gad)
3
I like the open gates.
Anna (Kristen Bell)
2
What is that amazing smell? Chocolate!
Elsa and Anna (Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell)
1
An act of true love will thaw a frozen heart.
Olaf (Josh Gad)

There are so many other heart-warming quotes from Frozen, because the story is about true love of every kind. Next time you’re feeling sad or lonely, just remember these quotes, and reach out to someone else with some love. You’ll find that an act of love can warm your heart.

www.christianquotes.info/movie-quotes/15-lovely-quotes-frozen-warm-heart/