Human Design

By Donald Miller

Human beings were designed to change the world. If we aren't making the world different in some way, we're likely to get depressed.

Indifference

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference; the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor

Forgiveness

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi

Powerful

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful
things humans can do for each other.
~ Randy Pausch

The Most Loving Thing?

"I don't think the most loving thing we can do is speak the 'truth.' I think the most loving thing we can do is to love…If you think speaking truth is the most loving thing. Here are some truths. It is estimated that in the US alone, Church organizations own in excess of 200 Billion Dollars in real estate. Roughly 1/3 of the worlds population claims to be Christian, and yet, 21,000 children die everyday from hunger and preventable diseases. It is estimated that there are 27 million people worldwide that are slaves, most are women and children, and many of the children are forced to perform in the commercial sex trade. The truth is [name] that God has provided and equipped his church to eliminate the suffering in the world, but it would require us to come out of our comfort zones, maybe sacrifice a bit, and maybe even get a little dirty, and the church is obviously not willing to do that. It is much easier, much more comfortable to sit back and focus on issues that require OTHERS to change their behavior. I choose to Love; I choose to Do Justly, Love Mercy and Walk Humbly with God, and then let Him figure out the rest."

- A man in Charlotte who saw the film today writing the most awesome response to someone who argued that the most "loving" thing to do is tell LGBT people of their "clear sin."

Sometimes

Sunday Poetry: Sometimes, by Anonymous

Sometimes

Sometimes things don’t go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail.
Sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.

A people sometimes will step back from war,
elect an honest man, decide they care
enough, that they can’t leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.

Sometimes our best intentions do not go
amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen; may it happen for you.

– by Anonymous
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Respect

“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald