- Food for thought; “Your system is perfectly designed to produce the result you are getting.”
- Incredible APOD.
- The Bethlehem star.
- "I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they are unable to stay quietly in their own room.” Pascal
- We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God’s coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of fear that God’s coming should arouse in us. We are indifferent to the message, taking only the pleasant and agreeable out of it and forgetting the serious aspect, that the God of the world draws near to the people of our little earth and lays claim to us. The coming of God is truly not only glad tidings, but first of all frightening news for everyone who has a conscience.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Joke: There’s an old joke about a man who’s interviewing three people for a job. One is an engineer, one is an accountant, and one is a lawyer. As part of the interview process, he asks them “what is two plus two?” The engineer whips out a calculator, punches a few buttons, and says “it’s four point zero zero zero”. The accountant scribbles a few figures on a piece of paper and says, “it’s four”. The lawyer looks around, leans across the desk and quietly says “what do you want it to be?’
- Ponder this from Saint Augustine in the early fifth century. "This Heavenly city, while it sojourns on earth, calls citizens out of all nations, and gathers together a society of pilgrims of all languages, not scrupling about diversities in the manners, laws, and institutions whereby earthly peace is secured and maintained, but recognizing that, however various these are, they all tend to one and the same end of earthly peace. It therefore is so far from rescinding and abolishing these diversities, that it even preserves and adapts them, so long only as no hindrance to the worship of the one supreme and true God is thus introduced.” Quoted in Dallas Willard. “The Divine Conspiracy.”
- Good riddance to 2020 with expectations for a much better 2021.
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