Patience heals. Space and dead air breed working space. Understanding welcomes tenderness.
Foresight tops them all. Love and prayer empower foresight.
Foresight empowers love because we expend less energy on ourselves when we are not surprised by what we could have seen, but somehow didn’t.
Having seen yesterday what happened this morning empowers the foreseer to speak, inform, explain, unpack… Foresight is the tool to help others evaluate and interpret the times. · · · →
Exhausting one’s case is, unfortunately, something only lawyers understand. That’s one reason so many of them are good at pushing the limits.
Not every idea, not every argument, not every method of persuasion needs to be made. Once we get a clear enough picture to remove doubt that is “reasonable”, it’s time to end arguments and begin deliberation. Losers try to keep argument going as long as they can because they are unhappy if everyone doesn’t agree with them.
Proof, evidence, and especially self-evidence, don’t need long explanations. Once things are seen for what they are, it’s time to choose. · · · →
Halloween originated in the 9th century when Rome couldn’t force the pagans of the British Isles to stop acting like pagans. If you can’t defeat your enemy, join him as the Catholic Church has done since Constantine joined the Church and took it over via government blessing.
All that ancestor worship, spiritualising food during the harvest season, and calling on ghosts to help survive the coming winter—many Taiwanese Christians don’t want to let that go even today.
Seven centuries later, Europe had enough of “pagan Christendom”. On Halloween, Marin Luther nailed 95 theses to a church door and revival began. · · · →
Justice isn’t easy. We have all asked for it. We have all complained about injustice. We all know justice when we see it. But, giving justice seems to be a skill attained by a reserved few.
There are so many details that need to be considered in matters of justice. Matters of justice span from parenting to teaching to leading business. Government courts see the fewest actual situations of justice—only the ones which have gotten out of control.
Courts are the last resort for justice, but they are the first thought on most people’s minds. Give your own justice. · · · →
