There is a way…

In an article, published 12/20/09 in the New York Times, columnist Frank Rich calls Tiger Woods the “Person of the Year.” That’s right. Tiger Woods. This year. Hard to believe/ Maybe not so much. Read on. It is a pointed and penetrating piece worthy of the time it will take you to read it. It touches on a deep and sobering perspective of our contemporary culture and its shallowness, and our willingness to accept how things or people appear without looking too deeply for what they really are. Our national focus has become one of form over substance. Character has come to mean nothing to us.  I suggest that you read the article before proceeding. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/opinion/20rich.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 I don’t agree with all Mr. Rich says in his...

What in the world? How stupid do they think we are?

I can’t believe what I am seeing. America, we are in deep trouble! We are being led by an empty suit that only knows how to campaign and has no clue how to govern. We were promised “change” and a “new transparency” and we get a health care bill that won’t see the light of day until it is too late to stop it and that has been put forward only by the approval of whores who sold their integrity for special favors and money. This is disgusting and nothing more than the strong-arm Chicago politics of bribery and corruption brought to our nation’s capital. We are being represented by prostitutes who gladly sell their integrity for money, power, and popularity. (See: Where are the Statesmen? –...

Some Food for Thought

First some facts, then some questions. Did you know that: 1) Real per-capita income in our country has doubled since 1960. 2) Life expectancy has nearly doubled in the last century and continues to rise? 3) The size of the average new home has grown from 1100 square feet post WWII to 2300 square feet today? 4) We Americans are more prosperous today than 99.4% of anyone who has ever lived? 5) We have technology and labor saving devices beyond what could be imagined just 50 years ago? 6) The total of the knowledge we have gained in the last 50 years is 50 times greater than all that was previously known to man and continues to double every year or less. 7) We live in the country with the greatest individual freedom that the world has ever seen? In spite of the above, all studies show that...

The High Cost and Source of Discontent!

If I had to choose just one overarching quality or attitude toward life to have and to hold as the constant practice most beneficial to having a great life experience it would be – contentment. I have written in previous posts about contentment,  proposing that contentment is found in a choice we make based on an accurate understanding of God’s goodness, sovereignty, and plan for us, rather than a group of circumstances that occur at a given time. Contentment, or the lack thereof is a constant choice we make as we perceive what we believe to be reality about our sufficient state in life moment by moment. You and I choose contentment – or not. When we choose not we are by definition discontent. Discontented people are not happy people, they can’t be. Discontent...