The weird, and sometimes maddening truth about gifts is that some of their inherent value is the inconvenience itself.
Wisdom
You don’t reason with an enraged momma bear
You don’t try to “walk alongside” the enraged momma bear, trying to calm her down, redirect her, or help her see reason. You get out of the way.
The variables you’re not planning for
You won’t get much done if you’re factoring in an earthquake contingency plan as part of your daily schedule. On the other hand, if you operate on the equation of ‘planning yields success’, you’ll lose a sense of perspective, gratitude and balance.
Treat yo’ self every day
If America had a life verse for its past fifty years, this would be it: “treat yo’ self.”
Don’t trust your gut
The band OneRepublic said it perfectly: “I feel something so right, doing the wrong thing, and I feel something so wrong doing the right thing.”
Close your mouth to save your life
It’s not only a concern for others that motivates us to keep our mouth shut. It should be an instinct of self-preservation.
Why some people are black holes
What we find in the wicked is… nothing. It’s an absence, a nothingness. Instead of seeing perhaps some malformed root growing in the wicked, or some different organism, what we discover is a great black hole.
Renew the city – start with yourself
The reason why the subject of city transformation or cultural renewal will spawn an infinite number of books, articles, and resources, is because by God’s wisdom, the actual process is so hard to pin down. Blessing comes to an area through the lives of upright people. That’s a pretty indirect route.
Getting what you want, or your nightmare
The more you dread failure, the more your minor failures will haunt you. You will replay them in your mind, repent of them, take vows to never repeat them. And thus failure, the very thing you are trying to avoid, will control you. It will guide your hand, and chain your soul
Feasting in a luxurious house
There are two main objections in people’s minds when they consider setting themselves toward living a life of wisdom. First, that sounds hard. Second, that sounds boring.
The balanced, centered, “zenned” life
What everyone wants, or at least what we want from others, is balance. We need empathy over echo-chambers. But how do you get there?
Are you a victim of your surroundings?
You can usually tell in the first few minutes of a movie, what kind of movie it is. You have a sense. You get a feeling. The colors, the scenery, the music, the camera angles, and the types of characters involved all set the mood.
