~ Bob Evans
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A Friend of Your Mind
from Toni Morrison's book Beloved:
Paul D reflects on how his relationship with Sethe is healing in the same way as the relationship between Sixo and the Thirty Mile Woman.
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”
Friday, May 11, 2012
Who Is Elect?
"Some people are predestined to believe and teach predestination. Some people are predestined to believe and teach freewill. Some predestinators are predestined to change to freewill later in life. Some freewillers are predestined to become predestinators later in life."
~ Clarence Cossey, Baylor University
comment on the article "Who Is Elect? Arminius Differed from Calvin"
http://www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630050/?utm_source=This%20Week%20in%20Christian%20History%20-%20Christianity.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=05/11/2012/ as of 5/11/12
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Courage
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”
G.K. Chesterton
Sunday, May 06, 2012
We need greater virtues
In one of his famous maxims, the great 17th Century French aphorist Francois de la Rochefoucauld said this:
"Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune que la mauvaise."
Translated this means: "We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune."
Saturday, May 05, 2012
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten
excerpts from Robert Fulghum's "All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten:"
"All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:
Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Take a nap every afternoon.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the styrofoam cup -- they all die. So do we.
Think what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole world -- had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.
Or, if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are -- when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together."
Robert Fulghum "All I really Need to Know I learned In Kindergarten",
Villard Books N.Y. 1988, pp. 6-8
"All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:
Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Take a nap every afternoon.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the styrofoam cup -- they all die. So do we.
Think what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole world -- had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.
Or, if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are -- when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together."
Robert Fulghum "All I really Need to Know I learned In Kindergarten",
Villard Books N.Y. 1988, pp. 6-8
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