“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our […]
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I have come to believe. This statement evokes thought. If the emphasis is placed on the word “come,” the word suggests time and place. If I have come, I have come from somewhere and at a particular time I arrived. Arrival becomes the essence of the word and expresses some truth or something true I
For most of my conscious memory, I have hated cold weather. Shivers do not warm me. Toboggans are useless. Gloves are for fashion, and scarfs just decoration. Snow is pretty on postcards! I have heard the Norwegian saying, “There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.” The Norwegians may be happy with good clothing, but
Growing up when homes were adorned by one television with three channels, rabbit ears and sitting two feet from it was the norm, my family had a saying, “I can’t see through muddy water!” The image resides in my Smithsonian mind. The waters are muddy. Our human psyche is an imperfect lens blurring feigned attempts
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