April 26, 2014

  • Cowboy Wisdom

    You who grieve are not crazy. You are grieving. Grief causes you to question every thing you thought was true. If you were really crazy you would not have any questions about that. You would be content to be crazy. Crazy is not a very self analytical state. Grief forces you to reexamine everything you thought you knew about life. That is not crazy. That is grief.

    There are no unimportant days. That's why they are numbered.

    Wisdom puts emotion in its place.

    It should be enough to know we have been useful without having to understand what exactly we said or did that was useful.

    If you spent the morning kicking the butt of the person who caused most of your troubles yesterday, you probably wouldn't be able to sit down for supper.

    Hope is the ability to faintly hear distant music that stirs your soul. Faith is dancing to that music even when those around you cannot hear it.

    Our greatest error is one of perspective. We spend too much time looking for God's role in our plans and too little looking for our role in His.

    You can't decide what's true based on what you like. Truth is truth regardless of your opinion of it.

    What if truth is discovered by scientists to be an absolute that has laws like light or gravity? You know light, from the sun for instance, has certain properties beyond your ability to change them. You can ignore the light of the sun and pretend it is dark instead and run around nekkid all day, but you will just end up sunburned and embarrassed. You can pretend gravity is not real or does not apply to you and attempt to fly off your house, but you'll just end up with broken bones. What if truth is like that? What if truth is not changed by your attitudes or opinions? Would that change the way you live your life? Or if you think that truth is an absolute, how has that changed the way you live your life?

    "God would rather give up His son than give up on us"-Max Lucado.

    And from Elaine Mehn: Do you ever have times when you wonder if your brain moved and you forgot to leave a forwarding address?

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