Hard Heads Make For Fast Behinds
By: Carletta Traylor aka C.N.
Raise your hand (it’s not like I can see it. Haha) if you’ve ever heard the phrase “a hard head makes for a soft behind.” This is just a fancy way of saying that when we act like we don’t have any home training (we lose our GOSH DARN minds), we’re asking to be punished (usually a spanking, but could also involve the proverbial foot going up one’s behind. Haha). When we think that we’re so smart/think that we know everything (no one can tell me NUTHIN-how are you so smart, but you don’t even know proper English? Haha jkjkjk Jesus and I love you. Haha), we try our hardest not to listen to good advice (constructive criticism), and proceed to make terrible decisions (we’re talking upper echelon levels of stupid here. Haha).
These bad decisions, by definition, constitute sin (bad things that we say, do, don’t do, or think-God’s not happy with you!). When we’ve been used to having it all, doing it all (doing what, you say? IT. Haha), and thinking that we’re getting away with it (emphasis on the word THINK; God sees (and knows) everything, so we’ll NEVER get over on him, though we may be able to fool others), we continue to race down Dipstick Drive until we finally crash-smoke, fire and stupidity everywhere! Haha.
In light of today being Day#4 of my “Are These Women Crazy?!” series, this brings us to the story of Hosea and Gomer in the Bible. NOTE: I will be summarizing the first 3 chapters of Hosea for this post, so get your snacks and drinks ready! It’s going to be a scandalous ride! Haha.
In the 1st Chapter of Hosea, God Almighty tells Hosea (a holy man and one of God’s prophets) to marry a woman of the night named Gomer (That’s right, folks! God told Hosea to marry a woman faster than Jeff Gordon at the Indy 500! Haha. As we’ll see later on, however, there was a method to God’s madness (if I should even call it “madness.” Haha)). The Israelites had thrown their minds off of a cliff (FLYING BRAINS! FLYING BRAINS!), were living a very sinful, lavish (bling-bling and the ching-ching!) lifestyle, and were worshiping fake, second-rate gods (there’s only one true, living God, folks-the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who sent his darling son, and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to die on the Cross for our sins).
Israel had been flourishing, and as such, they had lost their minds and started smelling their own behinds (like their “you know whats” didn’t stink; their heads were so far up their own behinds, they were giving themselves colonoscopies, y’all!). They became cockier than roosters (cock-a-doodle-doo!), rubbed a lot of countries the wrong way (i.e. they had lots of enemies), refused to repent of their sins (turn away from their evil and ask God Almighty for forgiveness) and ask God for help, and had their behinds handed to them by Assyria. Israel has been conquered! Israel has been conquered! Israel has fallen! Bye-bye, Israel!
Gomer was all about this butt-backwards, fast life (on the count of 3, gentlemen, start your engines!), yet God instructed Hosea to marry her-he had a lesson to teach the Israelites (and all of us, for that matter). Hosea obeys God, marries Gomer, and they have three children together-a son named Jezreel (which is a place of death and mass genocide), a daughter named Lo-Ruhamah (which means “no mercy” or “without compassion”), and a son named Lo-Ammi (which means “not my people”); God told them to name their children as such, showing his anger (and heartbreak) over Israel betraying him (I have loved and taken care of your nappy-headed behinds all of this time, and this is how you all repay me?! Y’all have ticked off the RIGHT and WRONG one today! Let the tushy thrashing begin! Haha). Right after Gomer gave birth to Loammi, she left Hosea; her fast behind started hitting up every male with a pulse, like she was in the Willy Wonka movie, looking for the golden ticket (you DISGUST me! Haha jkjkjk)!
Why did Gomer start wiling out, Cancun-style, you ask? As I previously mentioned, Hosea was a man of God: he listened to God, obeyed his Word, and preached God’s truth (and the importance of repenting- turning away from our sins and asking God to please forgive us and help us to stop sinning) throughout the land. Gomer was a worldly woman from the jump (HELLO! Woman of the night. Haha), and she 1) wanted to continue to live any kind of way and do whatever she felt like doing (bad girl! Haha), 2) was embarrassed to be married to a holy man like Hosea, and 3) felt that he was spending too much time with God, and not enough time with her (she thought that the world revolved around her, y’all). As such, she said “three strikes (children), you’re out,” left Hosea after giving birth to Lo-Ammi, and started riding ponies in a non-rodeo setting (I’m sorry, parents! I had to! Hahahaha). Are you kidding me, Gomer?! Hosea has treated you like a queen (even though you were acting like a…let me stop while I’m ahead. Haha), has always taken care of you, and you go and cheat on him?! My Slap-a-Meter is going crazy right now, y’all (please forgive me, Lord! Please take the wheel, Jesus!)! Haha.
As Gomer is frolicking through the forest, thinking that she’s so cute and “living life,” Hosea forgives her and allows her to come back home. Hosea loved Gomer, wanted their marriage to work out, and chose to give her another chance (just as God loves us, forgives us of our sins, and gives us undeserved second chances; God is good!). As such, Gomer returns home to her family (home, sweet home!). You’d think that Gomer would have seen the light, acquired the sense of a bat, repented of her sins (asked God and her family for forgiveness), and tried to do better-NOPE! This clown and a half ONCE AGAIN felt alone and neglected (which wasn’t true; Hosea was a great husband to her, but she was just a spoiled, self-centered, worldly brat), and ONCE AGAIN left her family to climb Mount MANverest! This became an ongoing cycle, y’all! Gomer would fall face first into the peasant pudding, become way too friendly with random men, Hosea would forgive her and plead for her to come back home, and she would return home, just to do the same thing again (there’s no telling what diseases she had contracted, y’all; stay over there, trifling Trudy! Haha jkjkjk).
The supposed “fun” ended, however-the men that Gomer had been associating with didn’t love her, didn’t care about her, could care less what happened to her, and left her alone and poor in the streets (she and Hosea had money, but she left him, blew all of her money on worldly pleasures-fancy clothes, sandals, makeups, perfumes, etc., and didn’t get any help from her many lovers). Too embarrassed to admit that she had messed up and return home, Gomer becomes penniless (she couldn’t buy a vowel or pay attention, y’all) and sells herself into slavery to pay off her debts-she is ragged, dirty, cold, hungry, disheveled (her hair was torn up from the floor up, y’all!), and miserable (a far cry from how she used to live, look, and act). While Gomer is on an auction block (in chains), preparing to be sold into slavery, Hosea buys her out of slavery with all of his money and a few loaves of barley (his money wasn’t enough to pay her debts), forgives her once again, and allows her to come back home (he loved him some Gomer, y’all! He’s a good man…much better than I probably would have been in that situation. Haha).
Hosea tells his wife that God instructed him to marry her, that’s he going to love and take care of her, but that she can no longer be a woman of the night (i.e can’t be a loose Lucy and share intimacies with other men anymore-DUH!!! Haha) and abandon her family (think about the kids!). Gomer finally snaps out of it, sees the light (Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus!), straightens up, and flies right (they’re a happy family again!). The 3rd Chapter of Hosea ends with the following scripture:
Hosea 3:5 (KJV)-Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Thank you, Jesus! God is good! Hosea forgives Gomer for her unfaithfulness, allows her to come home, she sees the error of her ways (and although the Bible doesn’t explicitly say so, I think it’s safe to assume that Gomer repented of her sins and turned to God), and they become a happy family!
In this story, Hosea represents God, and Gomer represents all of us. When we ignore God and engage in sin, we separate ourselves from God (just as Gomer separated herself from her family when she was out doing her dirt). Despite the fact that Gomer continued to leave her family and chase other men, Hosea never stopped loving her, continued to forgive her, and continued to allow her to come home (just as God continues to love us, forgive us, and let us come back home when we sin…as long as we sincerely repent of our sins and turn to him, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ).
When we’re at our lowest point (we’ve lost everyone and everything, have hit rock bottom, and truly feel alone), God is always there to pick us up (just as Hosea paid Gomer’s debts and bought her out of slavery when she lost everything, was a poor/dirty/disheveled mess, and felt alone). Let us never take God’s love, grace (giving us nice things that we don’t deserve), and mercy (not giving us the bad things that we do deserve) for granted (don’t bite the hand that feeds you! Haha); let us repent of our sins, turn to God (through Jesus Christ), and follow him, that we may see Heaven one day.
The modern-day remixes are ready to be unleashed, y’all (down, boy! Get down! Haha)! Let’s boogie! NOTE: I will be utilizing modern-day language, technology, and ways of living in this story, as we’re picturing this happening today.
Hard Heads Make For Fast Behinds
By: Carletta Traylor aka C.N.
Biblical Reference: Hosea, Chapters 1-3 (KJV)
*The Israelites have lost their cotton-picking minds, y’all! After all that God has done for them and brought them through-from Moses leading them out of slavery in Egypt to Joshua helping them to defeat the Canaanites in the Battle of Jericho-, these ungrateful butt wipes have fallen right back into sin, only care about money and power, are worshiping false gods, and think that THEY’RE so special (absolutely NO reverence to or respect for God!). The Israelites haven’t made any friends with their cockiness (i.e. smelling themselves), and in the midst of their divine betrayal (they betrayed God), they are WHOOPED by the Assyrians (Israel has been overthrown!). As a way to teach the Israelites (and all of us) a lesson, God instructs one of his holy prophets, Hosea, to marry a scandalous woman of the night named Gomer-her behind is frostbitten from all of the whipping in the wind that she does. Haha Let’s see how their marriage plays out! Where’s my popcorn? Haha*
Hosea: Honey, you know how much I love you, right?
Gomer: Of course I do, my love! You sat through an entire episode of The Young & the Restless without falling asleep or barfing-you’re a keeper (Lord knows I would have been out like a light 5 minutes into the show. I’m sorry, everyone! I’m not a soap opera fan (where are the basketball rims and monster trucks?!). Haha).
Hosea: And you know that everything that I say is out of love, right?
Gomer: Darling, what are you getting at?
Hosea: God calls us to be different from the world (i.e. act like you have some gosh darn sense! Haha), and not live as the world lives. He breathed breath into our bodies and blessed us with this beautiful planet, and all he asks is that we repent of (turn away from) our sins and live a life that is pleasing to him (this was hundreds of years before our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, was born). I want you and I both to make it to Heaven-it’s tank tops and flip-flops all the time (we’re talking EPICALLY beautiful weather, y’all! Sunshine, clear skies, a cool breeze, and living water forever! Haha)!
Gomer: Thank you for today’s lesson, Mr. H! I’ll be sure to watch paint dry for 8 hours straight to keep from offending God (that smart-mouthed sarcasm isn’t cute. Haha)! While I’m at it, why don’t I just wear a blanket everyday (can’t show any skin!) and sing “Kumbaya, my Lord” while our neighbors drive by?! We can’t have them thinking that I like to wash my car from time to time!
Hosea: I’m sorry, my love. I’m not trying to keep you from having fun; I just want us to live a life that honors God.
Gomer: You just keep your little history lessons over there, pal. I’m a big girl (I don’t see any diapers or pacifiers over here!) and know how to act. *HAHAHAHAHA! Oh, you’re being serious right now, Gomer?! You know how to act?! Chuck, Billy, Tommy, Dan, Pete, Sam, Jay, Jimmy, Aaron, Marcus, Lucas, Greg, Fred, and Mekai may have something to say about that! You know how to act! HAHAHAHAHAHA!*
*Hosea prays for his lost wife, as he loves her, and they have three children together- a son named Jezreel (which is a place of death and mass genocide), a daughter named Lo-Ruhamah (which means “no mercy” or “without compassion”), and a son named Lo-Ammi (which means “not my people”). Gomer begins to feel neglected by her husband (which isn’t true at all! He loves her and does everything that he can for her and their family; she just thinks that the world is supposed to revolve around pretty, gorgeous, good-looking her (Wah! Wah! You’re spending too much time with God and not telling me how beautiful I am 1,000 times a day! Wah! Wah! You’re spreading God’s truth instead of worshiping the ground that I walk on because my chest protrudes out farther than yours! Call this girl a WAMbulance and get her a blanket and some warm milk. Haha).
Foolishly thinking that Hosea is neglecting her, Gomer cheats on her husband several times (the mailman, the milkman, the garbage man, that one cute single policeman, a firefighter, even that guy who delivered her pizza 3 weeks ago. Get it together, girl! Haha. Despite her RIDICULOUSLY STUPID and SINFUL actions, Hosea (being the loving man of God that he is) loves his wife, forgives her, and allows her to come back home (Phew! That was a close one!). Here’s the thing, though-not too long after Hosea lets Gomer come back home, she drinks the moron’s milk again! This trifling tart ONCE AGAIN pretends that she’s so lonely and leaves her husband and children (she couldn’t wait to flip her little natty behind in the wind!)!
Gomer thinks that she’s “living the life” for a while (LIAR, LIAR! PANTS ON FIRE!), but her actions soon catch up with her-the men that she’s playing touch football with don’t give her any money, don’t give her a place to stay, and frankly don’t care what happens to her. She owes the IRS $54,000 in back taxes (which she hid from her husband, Hosea), hasn’t paid a lick towards them, and has blown all of her money on shopping sprees, getting her hair and nails done, and eating fancy meals at Hoity-Toity restaurants that I can’t even pronounce (i.e. she’s trying to live like the Joneses, y’all! You’re a Cunningham, girl! You’re a Cunningham. Haha). As a result of her mounting government debt, the police track her down and arrest her outside of Nordstroms (while she was “window shopping” with her friends, too! Looks like Pierre and his fall collection couldn’t save you this time, honey! Haha)—you’re under arrest for not paying the Piper!
Gomer’s friends call Hosea and tell him what has happened to his wife (she went from a Bluebird to a jail bird!), and he immediately goes to the police station to bail her out. He’s a little short on cash, so he offers the guards three front-row tickets to that night’s Bulls vs Lakers game-we have a deal! Haha. Gomer is now a free woman, but Hosea has something to say to her.*
Hosea: Look, honey, I love you and would do anything for you, but this has to stop! God put you and I together, and I’m not going to allow you to run around and break our family apart! I’ve bailed you out of jail, and you’re coming home with me.
Gomer: Ok, honey. I’m sorry.
Hosea: Please let me finish. You can’t keep doing this to us. Running out on your family, being too friendly with other men, living this sinful, non-caring lifestyle; THIS HAS TO STOP NOW!
Gomer (crying and genuinely remorseful this time): You’re right, honey. I’m so sorry for everything that I’ve done to you and the kids. I’m so sorry for hurting you. I love you with all of my heart and soul, baby. I love my children and would do anything for them. I mean that. You have been a wonderful husband and father to our kids, but I was just stupid! Father God, I’m so sorry for not listening to you! I’m so sorry that I broke your heart time and time again. Please forgive me of my sins and help me to do better, Lord! I don’t want to live this way anymore! I don’t want to hurt you or my family anymore! Please clean me up and make me more like you! I want Heaven to be my home! Thank you so much for bailing me out, baby. We have A LOT to talk about when we get home.
Hosea: You’re welcome, sweetheart. Yes we do. Haha Let’s go home.
*Once at home, Gomer spills the beans about her wild escapades, her back taxes, and what was going through her head while she was stuck on stupid. She has genuinely repented of her sins and turned to God, and she, Hosea, and their three kids live happily ever after…at least for the night. Haha*


I choose the following Question to answer for my reflection paper in Theology 104, the first. Did Jesus need to be born of Virgin? Yes did Jesus needed to be born of a virgin, if Jesus was not born of a Virgin how we would never of known of his existence because in the in the Bible it say’s Jesus was born of a Virgin this makes him a God-Man he is both a son of man and son of God. Being born a son of God Jesus would not been able to do the things that he has done. The second question, if a person is a Christian, does it matter how they live their life? As Christian is does matter how they live their life because we the Disciples of Jesus Christ, Christians live the way they do because we are commanded to do good works as Jesus would do good works.
The third question, what can your local Church do to better communicate with God’s love to your Community? Well for starters my local church can always pray first for our community, prayers open the door to God and the people that are praying. We can do good works around our local town; we can help others by giving them food for the Holidays. These are some of the ways my local church helps.
Did Jesus need to be born of a virgin?
Yes, Jesus needed to be born of a Virgin. If was not born of a Virgin he would of just been the son of Man, do I believe Jesus would still do his good works Yes but he would of sins of Man to bring him down and might not of died on a cross. Because Jesus was born of a Virgin, Jesus didn’t have any sins. He walked around claiming he was one with God, that yes he was God and he allowed everyone to worship him.
The virgin birth of Jesus Christ is an independent doctrine and which we can receive or reject with affecting our Christianity. Jesus birth is the core foundation of stones built to make Christianity and our faith would crumble if it is removed, this is why Christianity has become today because of this great birth of Jesus Christ. Some people say that the birth of Jesus is not important but when you look at Christianity it is indeed important because if it didn’t happen there would be no Christianity.
Christ is a sinless Character, above all he is the key to the doctrines of the bible and if Jesus was not born of a Virgin he would have been unable to save himself because he would have not been a sinless savior. What I am saying here is that Jesus was meant to be born from a Virgin so that one day people would look up to him, worship like we would need to worship our creator God. When Jesus died on the cross for our sins he had saved us all so that we can have our freedoms as of today, we must always remember that Jesus is always there for us just like God.
If a person is a Christian, does it matter how they live their life?
If a person is a Christian it does matter how they live, as Christians we have a purpose in this world we are meant to love each other, we are meant to treat our neighbors as we would want to be treated, we are commanded to do good works. If we didn’t do all three of these things we would be Christians, we would just be people treating to live our lives and not caring for anyone else around us. I agree though there are some people who pretend to be Christian who in fact these people aren’t Christian, just because you go to church every Sunday doesn’t mean you are Christian it just means you go to church and pray but don’t do the good things a Christian should do.
I have run into many people like that, they go to church and talk about others while in church and then when they leave church they continue to put down others. Why is this? What goes through their mind because Jesus would never put down anyone, Going to church is the start of a relationship between you and God and Jesus Christ. Jesus would want us to good works in the world today if we did not we wouldn’t be Christians.
If a person is a true Christian they will indeed care for everyone around them, they will do Good deeds and help out their neighbors. They would grow spiritually, they would grow through faith. When we live in the ways we do that would reflect on our ways as we enter heaven, doesn’t mean it gives immediate access to heave but it means does mean that we have our paid our dues because of the good we have done.
Being a Christian understands the faith and living up to that faith, being a Christian we should do on to others as we would want to be treated. Understanding our Christian thoughts is important to the way we walk, talk, and breath and lives on this planet. We are who we are and we share our lives with each other.
What can our local Church do to better communicate God’s love to your Community?
What can my local church to show better communication of God’s Love to my community, for starters we can begin by open the doors and hearts to all people living in and around my community? It is a crucial beginning that is very important to the way the First Baptist Church of Readsboro can grow the trust of friends and make a bigger family.
Our church is a place for believers to walk in; anyone can share their thoughts and prayers about anything they want or bothering them. The church is used as a place of protection from the outside world, I have prayed many times for the world around me and I am very thankful for the things I have received from the church in the long run. The church community is a bonding of people, (Town. Pg 100) if we didn’t bond together I would see bickering and arguments all over the place. Because we are what we are and a base faith-community we will always grow from within our own hearts through Jesus Christ.
We are a community that allows diversity; we allow all different types of ideas to come in so that can change. Sharing our love for one another, having dinners to help senior citizens out, bake sales to raise money even our Offertory sometimes goes to a special place to help other communities out or to help out people in need of assistance. The best gift my church allows and this is why I wanted to be Baptized this year is that we are all entitled to our opinions and facts, I was accepted into the church because of all the problems I have had in my life.
The church will be and forever a interactive community, because I have been accepted into the church and a big part of the church I now have a chance to do something that I have wanted to do in my years of music education and college life and that is be a music director. I am the choir director in my church and not because I was picked because I had strong talks with my pastor and showed him my love for music now I have rehearsals twice a week for 1 hr 30 min and sometimes longer. They allow me to pick the best music to sing if it’s from classical to singing music in our Hymnals; they assured trust in me for doing so.
What makes a church a church a church? Is the person inside it that care and share the love of God through the community and the town this is how we begin to show everyone that the church is a good place to begin.
My progression in Christian thought is know the 5 principles of God’s will and knowing that the sixth principle is doing whatever you want so long you understand and know the first 5. My faith is growing everyday for the readiness of God’s Love, he is always there even though he might not answer every prayer and every conversation you have with him. God is and will always be by your side, think for a second. God is the alpha & omega he is the creator of man why should we search for him when he is already there beside us we might not see him but he is already there.
God doesn’t want to be found but worshiped, if he wanted to be found he would be hiding but he isn’t hiding him all around us. If you ever believe in Guardian Angels then you will understand my story, first started our when I was 10 and I was on the little league field playing baseball. The coach always put me in right field it was my spot, that one day when I was on that field I saw a beam of white light surround me it happen for 2 seconds which felt like a long lasting light. When the light had passed I looked down in my glove and saw a baseball I had no idea how it ended up there or where it came from, everyone’s expressions on their face were priceless because they too had no clue what went on but only I did. I never jumped up to catch that ball I just stood there and let it go in my glove.
That day I will never forget because of the spiritual happening, from that day my progression of Christian grew and it is where I am today growing in my thought and helping others around me, though I might not be able to do much because of my difficulties with my disability I am still here today ready to take on more good works because that is what Jesus would do.
Core Christianity. Elmer Towns. “The church community is a bonding of people” Pg 100. Copyright© 2007 by Elmer Towns. Published by AMG publishers 6815 Shallowford Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421.


The search —
for God —
is strenuous and unending.
We need good companions
in order to persevere in it.
In good company,
in a community of conviction,
the quest never loses its
or its savor.
—Kaye Ashe, Order of Preachers
This quote holds a prominent place in my home, reminding me daily of the importance of relationship in the work I do. It humbles me, reminding me that I cannot accomplish anything alone. I need “good companions in order to persevere.”
Kaye Ashe was a Sinsinawa Dominican sister, a member of a community that was formative in my post-college years entering the work world. As an Apostolic Volunteer, I and other laypeople (non-ordained) lived in an intergenerational, inter-gender, interracial, intentional community with Sinsinawa sisters. We were also placed in “ministries,” or work sites, where Dominican sisters worked. From them I learned the importance of relationships in effecting change in the world.
I went to Chicago for a year of service. Placed in two economically challenged neighborhoods in highly segregated Chicago (mostly Black North Lawndale and Pilsen, a Mexican immigrant community), I was excited to live within and serve these communities that were so different from the small, homogeneous town I grew up in. Reflecting back, I often wonder how much I unconsciously approached my experiences out of a “white savior” mentality. It’s a common flaw of well-meaning white people to think that they can enter a community and change it in ways they deem better, placing their own values on others in the guise of service. If I did have that initial motivation, the sisters gently and persistently disabused me of it.
Rather than a servant or savior relationship, my mentors modeled one of kinship. Rev. Gregory Boyle beautifully illustrates the lesson the sisters quietly conveyed through their daily actions in his book “Tattoos on the Heart.” Boyle promotes, “kinship, not serving the other, but being one with the other. Jesus was not a man for others. He was one of them,” he says. “There is a world of difference.” Kinship is a relationship in which each party mutually benefits from the other; there is no top-down, one beholden to the other. The lesson for me was, we need less hierarchy and more partnership in this troubled world.
“At the heart of ministry is relationship” is the unofficial tagline of the Sinsinawa Dominican sisters. Those of us working in the secular world don’t call our work “ministry,” but relationship is no less important to the efficacy of our work. Adamant about being in relationship with those from varied walks of life, one sister strongly believed that our community and work lives were microcosms of our wider world community. Our small conflicts, shared joys and common problems were practice for being members of the larger world: “If we can’t make it work on this level, how the hell will we make it work globally?”
Now, years later, I am happy to be working in a space that values relationship as much as I do. I am not in this work alone. Thanks to the “good companions” I have in my colleagues at BetterWorld, our clients and partners, and our community members, I have faith that we will make it a better world.
Questions to Consider:
- How does relationship sustain you through work that is, “strenuous and unending?”
- When you volunteer, do you enter into relationship from a savior mode? Servant? Kinship?
- What efforts are being made to dismantle hierarchy/patriarchy and promote more equitable power dynamics in our communities and institutions today?
- Can there be justice without kinship?
To learn about the amazing Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters: https://www.sinsinawa.org/index.html
For more on Reverend Gregory Boyle’s books and his work with gang members in LA, go to: https://www.homeboyindustries.org/fatherg/
“We can do all the work around diversity…but if there are no relationships, it’s idle work”~ Communications Professional, How Can Women be Better Allies? MPR News, October 1, 2018 https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/10/01/kerri-miller-how-women-can-be-better-allies


If you are alive on this earth, you have heard the world attitude. You have had to adjust your attitude. You have been on the recieving end of a person that needed to have an attitude adjustment, and if you are like me, you may have felt inspired to the “instrument” that God was going to use to make that adjustment (We have to “SLOW OUT ROLE” when that happens). Attitudes are in everybody, every day, every where, and in every circumstance!
16 years ago, I came across an addage that I had forgotten until recently. Here it is…
What makes life 100%? If
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.
K N O W L E D G E – 11 14 15 23 12 5 4 7 5 = 96%
H A R D W O R K – 8 1 18 4 23 15 18 11 = 98%
A T T I T U D E – 1 20 20 9 20 21 4 5 = 100%
Now that is pretty powerful wouldn’t you say! I believe that Jesus lived His life in this principle. The Apostle Paul, saw this through his encounters with Jesus and developed this “thesis” the more and more he wrote about Jesus. Look at Paul’s thoughts on this in the book of Phillipians…
Philippians 2 (NLT) – Have the Attitude of Christ
1 Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ? Any comfort from his love? Any fellowship together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and compassionate? 2 Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose.
3 Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. 4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
6 Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.
7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being.When he appeared in human form,
8 he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.
9 Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
I know right now in my own personal life, the more I shift my eyes off of myself; then shift them to Jesus and to other people, I notice something…
MY ATTITUDE AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTS FOR THE BETTER!
As a matter of fact, John C. Maxwell said this about attitudes… “When our attitude outdistances our abilities, the impossible is possible!”
So here is to Life at 100% – ATTITUDE!!!!!!!


St John the Baptist Church in Adel is described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the best and most complete Norman village churches in Yorkshire'. We have been working with this Grade I listed building for almost ten years.
The original church was built in the 1100s and the magnificent gabled portal with its rich chevron and beakhead carvings dates back to this time. The door has a thirteenth century bronze closing ring which depicts a monster swallowing a man - the quality of which competes with the one at Durham Cathedral.
The interior retains much of its Norman character. It was altered in the sixteenth century and has nineteenth century restorations. It retains its chancel arch of about 1160 with two orders of chevron, beakhead and rectangular details. There are carved capitals depicting the Crucifixion, the Sacraments and a soul ascending to Heaven.
From our Quinquennial Inspections, we have reconstructed the Belcote tower and are now introducing ways of lowering the water table to safeguard the basement and vestry wing. In 2013 a completely new LED pendant lighting scheme was installed under the guidance of Light Perceptions, the highly acclaimed specialist lighting designers.
Our involvement has also included working on the adjacent Grade II listed Stables which form the Parish Rooms.
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
So, it's a saturday morning, and here's what I should be doing: dishes, laundry, cook for tomorrow's lunch, wrap a present for my son's friend's birthday, clean up the multitude of toys covering every surface of our house, study the sunday school lesson I am to teach tomorrow, and mop the kitchen floor - and that's only a partial list I'm sure. Somehow, today I can't quite manage it. I just don't care how the house looks. I want to curl up and read... and not just any book. I want to read something that speaks to me of myself, that clarifies who I am and what I am doing here. I want to think. Just think. Uninterrupted by my kids or the to do list. I want to sit before my father in heaven and let his spirit fill me with peace. You see, I'm on a journey. A journey that began the moment I listened, really listened to the voice that spoke the world into being. The Word that became flesh. The Word that dwells among us. The Word that makes me more myself. In His presence I am found. And I am becoming whole. But isn't it interesting how God chooses these moments? His timing is fascinating. Why would He initiate this journey just as my life became so full? Just when I'm called to give my life away to my children. In many ways, as any mother knows, my life is no longer about me. My time belongs to my family. My energy is dedicated to them. And this is good. Even as God opens my heart to himself and teaches me this path of spiritual discovery, my feet are firmly anchored in the real. The dirty dishes, the countless meals to be made, the daily instruction of my children, the bills waiting to be paid - they keep me grounded. And they remind me that even my Lord was a servant. He was no stranger to the daily necessities of earthly life. In fact, He came to inhabit the details, to dwell in the ordinary, to clean up messes, to kiss boo-boos and to pour divine love into every moment. So now I revisit my to-do list. But now I see Jesus. I see his hands, his feet, his loving care to my family. And my invitation to join him in the mess and the beauty of each moment.


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Teens Attending Catholic High Schools
The Bishop’s Office for the Archdiocese of Atlanta asks that teenagers that attend any Catholic High School, still receive their sacrament of Confirmation from the home parish where their family is registered. This is so the teenagers stay connected to their home parish as the heart of their formation in faith through the Sacraments.
Participation in parish life is an important part of faith development. The United States of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) states in their document on the Church,
“The parish is where the Church lives. Parishes are communities of faith, of action, and of hope. They are where the Gospel is proclaimed and celebrated, where believers are formed and sent to renew the earth. Parishes are the home of the Christian community; they are the heart of our Church. Parishes are the place where God’s people meet Jesus in word and sacrament and come in touch with the source of the Church’s life.”
(Taken from Communities of Salt and Light, p. 1)
Because of your commitment to Catholic Education and their participation in Religion Class at their Catholic high school, your teenager does not have to participate in the weekly Confirmation classes.
The Office of Youth Ministry wants your teenagers to feel a part of the parish life of St. Catherine of Siena community. Often your teens are great leaders and have an incredible gift of faith and ability to articulate this faith that helps to lead others to know Christ in a profound way. Know your teenager is invited to anything the Office of Youth Ministry offers.
Catholic School Students Need To Complete
The Following Requirements:
· Year 1
– Attend the Day of Reflection in Spring 2016
- Complete 20 hours of ‘Works of Mercy’ and turn in the service hour logs for each year of the program
- Attend an overnight (2 night) Confirmation Retreat in Fall 2015 and the Rite of Enrollment at the 5pm Mass
· - Attend Interview Day, with reconciliation and testing in January 2016
· - Complete 20 hours of ‘Works of Mercy’ and turn in the service hour logs for each year of the program
· - Complete the Saint Report
· - Complete the Sponsor Packet with their sponsor
· - Attend the Confirmation Rehearsal and the Confirmation Ceremony in March 2017


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When I was a little girl I used to go to Sunday school. I don’t remember much about it, except that we would dress up for this occasion. At the time we lived in the West Coast of Tasmania, where it was very cold and very wet. Religion was never discussed in our family. Sunday school was more of a thing that you did because it was the thing to do.
When we moved to North Queensland, Sunday school was left behind. However, when I went to a Protestant boarding school aged 11, Church going was compulsory. Dressed from head to toe in white, with gloves and hat, two by two we would parade to Church each Sunday. Truly a sight to behold. I remember thinking many times that there was so much hypocrisy evident in this religious thing. Pray on Sunday but spend the rest of the week acting out something completely different. At least this is what the elders who where responsible for our care seemed to do.
But post boarding school, other than the occasional wedding and funeral, Church and religion were not on the family menu.
Australia is, in general, a very non religious country. What I mean by that is that we keep our religion quiet. Our evangelicals are evangelical only to people who seek evangelicalism. There is a clear understanding that our spiritual world is private and that we have infinite choice around that. We are certainly not God fearing. Heck, our birthright is convicts, people looking for a fair go, and rejects, not people seeking religious freedom. I find it fascinating that the USA, were people did go to seek religious freedom, is one of the most unfree places on earth when it comes to religion. Unless you are a particular brand of Christian. But I digress from the topic.
Somewhere along the winding pathway of political correctness we threw the baby out with the bathwater. Just like this unspoken drift from Sunday school to nothing, in our sensitivity to be egalitarian, we stopped using sacred words. Words like reverence, sacrosanct, piety, sin, soul, spirit, evil, hell.
We talk about energy, but not about grace.
We have sterilized our language just as we have sterilized our children and our homes, terrified of the lurking pathogens that are actually a vital part of our ecosystem. The superbug is only super because nature has a beautiful way of restoring balance to the ecosystem. Our immune systems need regular practice at immunity.
Sacred words invite the sacred into our hearts and homes. I have always loved the inscription that was on the door of Carl Jung’s home.
Vocatus atque non vocateus, Deus aderit. Invoked or not invoked, God is present.
Or to put it another way, from a soldier in World War 1. I have never seen an atheist in a fox hole.
As Caroline Myss quotes, “Religion is just a costume party”, but inviting the sacred, in what ever form that is, into our hearts and homes, invites a connection to a larger something that has at its core, ‘we are all one.’
We have all been in hell. It’s that place where we lose connection with the sacred, with the self. Where you are under the spell of an addiction, or anger, or rage, or a pattern of behaviour that has been playing in your life for decades. It is the place where you are completely broken and there is no where further down to go.
Evil is something I have had little experience with, fortunately. But we all know it exists and thrives today, as it has forever.
Sin, well consider that first time, when you were a child, that you lied, or stole, or hurt someone on purpose. You remember that time? You knew it was wrong. The question is, did you keep up the behaviour until it became normal so that now you no longer see it as a sin? Have you normalised lies to yourself, or to others? Before you skip over that question, ask it again? Have you normalised lying to yourself? We all do, and when we do, we violate the sacred that is us.
Reverence..I love this word. I love how it sounds when you say it. I love what it means. I even wrote the article, Reverence as a Business Practice, at the time the only article on this subject I could find on google. (Imagine that??) Just imagine if we brought reverence back into our lives as a practice. Reverence for self, for family, for our work, for our environment?
Sacrosanct…well some things, and ideas, and actions and places should be held as sacrosanct. Non negotiable. Let’s start with our deepest values and their expression in our lives in all domains.
Finally, we have grace. A miracle is when the laws of the universe, such as gravity, are bent for one person, or one situation. A miracle occurs in the field of grace.
We have all experienced grace. It is the gift that comes from a stranger at exactly the right time. It is the beautiful sunrise, the smell of a rose. It is what is present when my whole body shakes when truth is revealed. It present when an artist or master is creating their art. Grace is also present when we die, when tragedy occurs, when the flood waters rise, and the winds tear down lives. Grace is poetry, and dance, music and love. Grace is the ever present thread.
The language of the sacred connects us to a deeper story. It is the song we have been longing for. Let us take off our sterilisation masks, let us get our hands in the dirt, with the bugs and microbes, this glorious ecosystem of light and dark. Let us speak of reverence, and evil, and sin and grace, as well as of bodhisattva’s, and the Tao.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
I want to marinate in the richness of the sacred. Want to join me?
(This article was inspired by the work of Caroline Myss.)


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Sometimes a little saying haunts us for the rest of our lives. This collection is aimed at the casual reader with the intent that some phrase might strike an inner chord that will open new doors of wisdom and change one’s life for the better. However it should also be used by preachers for as it is said “Those who never quote will never themselves be quoted.” In the end I would like to apologize for that these quotations are in English and not in Romanian; but, the wisdom of many of these passages is hidden in the complex beauty of some "subtle play" of the English language and it is beyond my level of skill to successfully attempt to equivalently translate them into Romanian. However, I consider it a very worthwhile endeavor to continue as such and I’m sure that those who can understand the quotations will be blessed.
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1) I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without Him – Martin Luther
2) Hold Thou Thy cross
before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom
and point me to the skies;
Heaven’s morning breaks,
and earth’s vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord,
abide in me. – Henry Francis Lyte
3) It is not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better – Alberta Lee Cox
4) Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. – Ronald Reagan
5) Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. – Elizabeth Bibesco
6) Lord grant that the FIRE of my heart may melt the lead of my feet.
7) If there is no wind row – Latin proverb
8) I have so much to do that I am going to bed – Savoyard proverb
9) Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
10) Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue – Francis Bacon
11) Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with. – Robert Leighton
12) They gave our Master a crown of thorns – Why do we hope for a crown of roses? – Martin Luther.
13) The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty. – D. E. Hoste
14) Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present – proverb
15) If you ask enough people, you can usually find someone who will advise you to do what you were going to do anyway. – Weston Smith
16) Do not open your heart to every man, but discuss your affairs with one who is wise and who fears God – Thomas à Kempis
17) God’s wounds cure, sin’s kisses kill – William Gurnall
18) Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about man’s search for God. For me, they might as well talk about the mouse’s search for a cat. – C.S. Lewis
19) Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. – Elbert Hubbard
20) Only those who attempt the absurd achieve the impossible.
21) Failure to plan is knowingly planning to fail.
22) The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
23) Attempt great things for God, expect great things from God. – William Carey
24) Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy
25) If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
26) If you think you’re too small to have an impact try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. – Anita Roddick
27) Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. – JFK
28) The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. – Abraham Lincoln
29) Human action can be modified to some extent but human nature cannot be changed. – Abraham Lincoln
30) You can see what God thinks of money when you see the people he gives it to. – Abraham Lincoln
31) When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
32) You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. – Abraham Lincoln
33) The things that will destroy America are peace at any price, prosperity at any cost, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living, and the getting-rich-quick theory of life. – Theodore Roosevelt.
34) Do what you can, with what you have, were you are. – Theodore Roosevelt
35) Worry, the interest paid by those who borrow trouble – George Washington
36) Never give advice
A wise man won’t need it
A fool won’t heed it.
37) The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking. – Phaedrus
38) The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. – Joshua Reynolds
39) Anger is one letter short of danger
40) The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me. – John Donne
41) Anybody can become angry – that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
42) Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.
43) Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. – C.H. Spurgeon
44) The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke
45) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr.
46) A stiff apology is a second insult. – G.K. Chesterton
47) Discussion is an exchange of intelligence; argument is an exchange of ignorance.
48) I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget – Benjamin Disraeli
49) It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. – William G McAdoo
50) I tried atheism for a while but my faith just wasn’t strong enough.
51) Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?
52) If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. – Dale Carnegie
53) There are two kinds of men who never amount to very much. Those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. – Cyrus H. K. Curtis
54) Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. – Zig Ziglar
55) If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury.
56) Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear; but around in awareness. – James Thurban
57) Beauty is a flower, fame a breath. - Latin proverb
58) Anyone can carry his burden for one day. Anyone can be pleasant, courteous, and friendly for one day. And that continued is all there is to life.
59) Behave towards your inferiors as you would wish your betters to behave to you. – Seneca
60) A Christ-centered life is like a good watch: open face, busy hands, pure gold, and full of good works.
61) He that knows nothing will believe anything. – Thomas Fuller
62) You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood become a matter of life and death to you. – C. S. Lewis
63) Make sure the thing you’re living for is worth dying for. – Charles Mayes
64) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned to compliment. – François de Voltaire
65) Give me a candle and a Bible, and shut me up in a dark dungeon, and I will tell you what the whole world is doing.
66) “Bible” It should fill the memory, rule the heart and guide the feet.
67) Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. – Jerome
68) The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. – James McCosh
69) Back to the Bible, or back to the jungle. – Luis Palau
70) Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. – Mark Twain
71) The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching. – A. T. Robertson
72) In 1728 potatoes were outlawed in Scotland because they were not mentioned in the Bible.
73) In the Old Testament we have Jesus predicted. In the Gospels we have Jesus revealed. In Acts we have Jesus preached. In the Epistles we have Jesus explained. In the Revelation we have Jesus expected.
74) Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself. – C. H. Spurgeon
75) Either the Bible will keep you away from sin, or sin will keep you away from the Bible. – C. S. Lewis
76) The Bible does not have to be rewritten but reread.
77) Avoid truth decay – read your Bible.
78) Many read the Bible the way a mouse tries to remove the cheese from a trap without getting caught. – Kierkegaard
79) Until we love the Lord as to do what He tells us, we have no right to an opinion about what one of those men meant; for all they wrote is about things beyond us. – George Macdonald
80) Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God. – James Hudson Taylor
81) What a world this would be if we could forget our troubles as easily as we forget our blessings.
82) God can do wonders with a broken heart; if we give Him all the pieces.
83) How else but through a broken heart may the Lord Christ enter in. – Oscar Wilde
84) It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.
85) Never mistake motion for action. – Ernest Hemmingway
86) Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong. – Holly Near
87) The world doesn’t care what you know until they know that you care. – David Havard
88) The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. – Tacitus
89) I have nothing to give but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. – Winston Churchill
90) The only thing constant is change.
91) Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. – Confucius
92) The boys and girls who are going to make great men and women, or are going to count in any way after life, must make up their minds not merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. – Theodore Roosevelt
93) [Charismatic] The fanaticism which discards the Scripture under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods. – John Calvin
94) Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naïve. – Ogden Nash
95) I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my need. – Spurgeon
96) I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not even what I hope to be. But by the cross of Christ, I am not what I was. – John Newton
97) Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it has a God who knew His way out of the grave. – G. K. Chesterton
98) The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small does of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing. – Leslie Dixon Weatherhead
99) There are many sheep without, many wolves within. – Augustine of Hippo
100) There are four kinds of church members: the tired, tireless, tiresome and retired.
101) The difference between involvement and commitment is like and eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was involved – the pig was committed.
102) If God is thy father, man is thy brother. – Alphonse de Lamartine
103) The best exercise for strengthening the heart is reaching down and lifting people up. – Ernest Blevings
104) Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. – George Herbert
105) Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty and the pig likes it.
106) A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. – Doug Larson
107) In order to attain the citadel of contemplation you must begin by exercising yourself in the field of labor. – Gregory the Great
108) The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home here on earth. – Malcom Muggeridge
109) [Conversion] You can’t tell the exact moment when night becomes day, but you know when it is daytime.
110) When he landed in 1848 there were no Christians. When he left in 1872 there were no heathen. – Memorial to John Geddie in Aneityum
111) Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ’s gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything. – J. I. Packer
112) If it’s painful for you to criticize your friends, you’re safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. – Alice Duer Miller
113) If one man calls you a horse, ignore him;
If two men call you a horse, consider it;
If three men call you a horse, buy a saddle. – Persian proverb
114) No statue has ever been erected to a critic. – Jean Sibelius
115) The cross is “I” crossed out.
116) Necessity is the mother of invention.
117) Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled. – Irenaeus
118) The cross symbolizes a cosmic, as well as historic truth: Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one. – Reinhold Niebukr
119) Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you. – Thomas à Kempis
120) Many who plan to seek God at the eleventh hour die at 10:30.
121) It is curious that people who are filled with horrified indignation whenever a cat kills a sparrow can hear the story of the killing of God told Sunday after Sunday and not experience any shock at all. – Dorothy Sayers
122) All cruelty springs from weakness. – Seneca
123) God is peopling eternity, and I must not restrict him to old men and women. – Jim Elliot
124) Remember death and the attractions of life will fade away before you. – Shenouda III
125) Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. – Mark Twain
126) An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. – William Hazlitt
127) Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. – C. S. Lewis
128) Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it. – J. Wilbur Chapman
129) I am resolved never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. – Jonathan Edwards
130) We are consecrated and dedicated to God; therefore, we may not hereafter think, speak, meditate, or do anything but with a view to His glory. We are God’s; to Him therefore, let us live and die. – John Calvin
131) No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity. – H. A. Ironside
132) Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything. – Alexander Moody Stuart
133) Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual. – C. H. Spurgeon
134) Despair is the conclusion of fools. – Benjamin Disraeli
135) Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie
136) It is still one of the tragedies of human history that the “children of darkness” are frequently more determined and zealous than the “children of light” – Martin Luther King
137) O Lord, You give us everything, at the price of an effort. – Leonardo Da Vinci
138) When you close your eyes to the devil, make sure that it is not a wink. – John C. Kulp
139) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. – Robert Frost
140) The greatest lesson in life it to know that even fools are right sometimes. – Winston Churchill
141) The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
142) You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension, and discipline are taken out of your life. – Jones G. Bilkey
143) A small but always persistent discipline is a great force; for a soft drop falling persistently hollows out hard rock. – Isaac from Syria
144) It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand! – Corrie Ten Boom
145) Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. – Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
146) It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God. – George Whitefield
147) Doubt sees the obstacles
Faith sees the way;
Doubt sees the blackest night
Faith sees the day;
Doubts dreads to take a step
Faith soars on high;
Doubt questions, “Who believes?”
Faith answers, “I”
148) Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is like a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. – Robert Frost
149) The best way to make dreams come true is to wake up. – J. M. Power
150) Without dreams you may continue to exist, but you have ceased to live – Mark Twain
151) Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
152) Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty. The second duty will already have become clearer. – T. Carlyle
153) Duty is ours: consequences are God’s. – General Stonewall Jackson
154) Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. – Mark Twain
155) Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
156) There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness. – Gelett Burgess
157) The secret of education is respecting the pupil. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
158) Spoon feeding is the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. – E. M. Forster
159) Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. – Roger Lewin
160) Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. – C. S. Lewis
161) Children’s games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play. – Montaigne
162) Let me teach for a generation, and I will become ruler of the state. – Napoleon
163) All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. – Chinese proverb
164) A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he can steal the whole railroad. – Theodore Roosevelt
165) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. – Mark Twain
166) If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. – Abigail Van Buren
167) I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious. – Vince Lombardi
168) If a man does his best, what else is there? – General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
169) A really intelligent man feels what other men only know. – Charles Montesquieu
170) The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – G. K. Chesterton
171) Let’s get rid of the inhuman philosophy which only allows necessities. Not only does it wrongly deprive us of legitimate enjoyment of God’s generosity, but it cannot be effected without depriving man of all his senses, reducing him to a block. – John Calvin
172) Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove. – Billy Sunday
173) Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. – John Wesley
174) Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. – Thomas Jefferson
175) If we escape one error, we usually glide into its opposite. – C. H. Spurgeon
176) Evangelicalism is like a swimming bath: most noise at the shallow end. – J. Blanchard
177) Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?
Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die?
Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn, and give no hand?
Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?
- Leonard Ravenhill
178) Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, summing up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, side stepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
179) Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. – Charles F. Banning


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Jew in the Christian World By Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer
Imprisoned in Lemberg concentration camp, a young Simon Wiesenthal is summoned to the bedside of a dying Nazi soldier who asks his forgiveness for the brutal massacre of an entire village of Jews.
“In his confession there was true repentance, even though he did not admit it in so many words,” writes Wiesenthal in the gripping opening of his memoir, The Sunflower. “Ought I to have forgiven him? Was my silence at the bedside of the dying Nazi right or wrong?”
In the symposium that comprises the second half of the book, the responses of Christian and Jewish scholars to the moral dilemma Wiesenthal poses highlight some theological contrasts.
Edward Flannery, a Catholic priest, comments, “It is a cardinal principle of Judeo-Christian ethics that forgiveness must always be granted to the sincerely repentant.”
Similarly, author Christopher Hollis notes the soldier makes no excuses, confesses his crime, and sincerely repents, concluding “…We are under obligation to forgive our neighbor even though he has offended against us 70 times seven.”
By contrast, scholar and author Susannah Heschel stands with Wiesenthal: “In Judaism, where forgiveness requires both atonement and restitution, there are two sins that can never be forgiven: murder and destroying someone’s reputation…no matter how much atonement is expressed for these crimes, no restitution is possible, and no forgiveness can follow.”
Lecturer Dennis Prager adds, “…a person who hurts another person must ask forgiveness from his victim and…only the victim can forgive him.”
Finally, Israeli Supreme Court Justice Moshe Bejski points out, “Even in normal criminology and penology only true regret accompanied by reformed behavior can be considered a justification for lightening a sentence…No matter what, regret (alone) never pardons crimes…”
These responses about repentance and forgiveness are strongly linked to the different religious traditions about the origin and nature of sin.
On one hand, Christianity and Judaism both describe sin as missing the mark: transgression of God’s law and rebellion against God, which includes harming others.
But Christianity sees humans as sinful by nature, as descendants of the disobedient Adam and Eve, and naturally inclined toward evil. Everyone sins, thus everyone will be damned.
This doctrine of sin is central to Christianity’s message of personal redemption: by accepting or returning one’s focus to Jesus as savior, the individual’s inherent and self-inflicted “sin-debt” is forgiven.
As C.S. Lewis explains, “repentance is not something God demands of you before he will take you back…it is simply a description…Instead of going away from God, or ignoring him, you turn around…and give him his rightful place in your life.”
In Christian tradition, unqualified forgiveness is a way of imitating God and acknowledging the sinner’s return to God’s path, although absolute forgiveness ultimately comes from God.
By contrast, Judaism sees humans as inherently neutral with both good and evil inclinations and free will, which they sometimes misuse, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin writes.
According to the rabbis of the Talmud, Telushkin writes in You Shall Be Holy, God created repentance “to provide humankind with a way to atone for and correct wrongful behavior,” because, “even good people would be overwhelmed by guilt, both toward God, Whose laws they had broken and toward those whom they had hurt.”
Rather than a doctrine of sin and redemption, Judaism’s central message is one of personal character.
Repentance — teshuvah — is a multi-step process of atonement by verbally acknowledging and taking personal responsibility for sinful behavior toward others and toward God, making restitution and repairing relationships by asking for forgiveness, and resolving to change one’s behavior and avoid those sins in the future.
The process of teshuvah is not targeted toward salvation, but rather toward the sinner’s return to being and behaving “in the image of God.”
For Judaism, “the primary issue in repentance is ethical, rather than theological or ritual transformation,” Telushkin concludes.
Teshuvah is a life-long worldly enterprise, punctuated by an annual 40-day season of repentance beginning with the first of the month of Elul and culminating with Yom Kippur.
In Judaism, the person who is wronged also has obligations to complete the cycle of repentance.
“(You must) go out of your way to offer those who have hurt you the opportunity to repent,” Telushkin writes, by returning phone calls, greeting them in public, and not avoiding their attempts to reconcile.
Just as you expect God to forgive, you should forgive those who truly repent, even multiple times.
Wholehearted forgiveness extends even beyond the moment of reconciliation, by not belaboring how much hurt was caused, by not reminding the former offender of their misdeed, by resuming the relationship, and even by offering a prayer on behalf of the offender. Teshuvah is a two-way street.
So how would you have answered Wiesenthal? Should he have forgiven the Nazi soldier or not? More importantly, why?
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