Thought provoking

CREED

We believe in the one High God who out of love created

the beautiful world and everything good in it. He

created man and wanted man to be happy in the world.

God loves the world and every nation and tribe on the

earth. We have known this High God in the darkness,

and now we know him in the light. God promises in

the book of his word, the Bible, that... See more

“Why

do you think Jesus tells us to pray

for daily bread? Why not monthly or

yearly bread?” It was an interesting

question I had not considered. As I

thought, a young woman flanked by

fussy toddlers on her chest and back

replied, “Because if God gave me food

for more than a day, I would not talk

to him.”

The hardest truth about happiness is that it's a choice.

Watch how people discuss their problems. They'll spend hours explaining why things are terrible, how unfair life is, and how others need to change. But suggest they might have the power to improve things and they suddenly have countless reasons why that's impossible.

Self-pity feels safer... See more

Isaiah 55

1 “Come, everyone who thirsts,

come to the waters;

and he who has no money,

come, buy and eat!

Come, buy wine and milk

without money and without price.

It’s really just you against the mirror. You vs you. No one else can win at a game of one. I know it’s hard not to get distracted, race horses wear blinders for a reason. Your lane you’re game. LFG.

I can feel that diminishment returning to everyday life. Everyone’s wrung out from the news and the terror inflicted by clown oligarchs and mad leaders and the general enshittification that is ensuing.

Writer G. K. Chesterton reminds us to not be carried along by life, but to live with energy, will, and conviction:

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

Source: The Everlasting Man ​ ​ ​