I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. Jackie Robinson Do you believe everyone deserves respect? I do. I sincerely desire to treat every person I encounter with dignity and respect. And I frequently fail miserably.
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Backsliding
Happy Saturday! If you’re new to THE CRAZY QUEST, you may wish to read about it here. Basically, I’m tracing my journey as I attempt to answer the question: What would you do if you didn’t know you couldn’t do it? This week of training: 13 miles BACKSLIDING Stumbling isn’t falling. This wasn’t a good week […]
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“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets […]
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James I’ve been thinking about Greg Mortenson’s powerful story, Three Cups of Tea. I want to expand on what I wrote (How To Change The World) earlier this week.
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None of us can do anything great on our own, but we can all do a small thing with great love. Mother Teresa I believe Mother Teresa would agree that no act of great love is ever truly a “small thing.”
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Happy Saturday! If you’re new to THE CRAZY QUEST, you may wish to read about it here. Basically, I’m tracing my journey as I attempt to answer the question: What would you do if you didn’t know you couldn’t do it? This week of training: 99 miles WE ALL RIDE THE SAME ROAD There are unexpected […]
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God does not allow evil and suffering to continue because He does not love us, or is in some way detached and removed from us. God takes our suffering so seriously, that he took it upon himself on the cross. Tim Keller When I speak to a group about RELENTLESS GRACE, the questions are frequently […]
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin Franklin It’s a lot easier to assert my rights than to act responsibly.
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Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. William J. Brennan, Jr. I have a confession: I tend to get possessive and judgmental about disabled parking spaces.
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Happy Saturday! If you’re new to THE CRAZY QUEST, you may wish to read about it here. Basically, I’m tracing my journey as I attempt to answer the question: What would you do if you didn’t know you couldn’t do it? This week of training: 57 miles and a vacation WHAT’S NEXT? Arriving at one goal […]
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An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Ghandi Yesterday I wrote about the pitfalls of Legislating Morality. “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” [Matthew 5:17]
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An ethical person ought to do more than he’s required to do and less than he’s allowed to do. You can’t mandate morality. Call it what you want—morality, ethics, or character can’t be codified. Laws, rules, and regulations are always lowest common denominators. Attempts to legislate moral behavior simply create a cottage industry aimed at […]
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