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A Digest of Truth on a Saturday in May

Saturday Truths

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
— Flannery O’Connor
These thoughts and observations have one thing in common, they are all being reposted here on a Saturday in May.

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"Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real." – Thomas Merton

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it!" – Pearl S Buck

"Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real." – Thomas Merton

The narrow way is a wide place. Yes. It is a paradox. Chew on it.
"... and I shall walk in a wide place,
for I have sought your precepts."
(Psalm 119:45 ESV)

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We honor, as the song says, "young men who died for old men's wars."
Young men and young women.
It is up to the old to make it less necessary.
As we remember, honor, and care for them, let us also do all we can to make a peaceful world.
It starts here and now.
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Often, the most disturbing lies are the ones we tell ourselves until we believe them.
Just because we have been wearing our excrement long enough to stop smelling it, does not mean its not still there.
We really sometimes need a complete wardrobe makeover ...
... and a bath.
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Real prayer has an open-ended quality to it.
We cannot come to God to present our agenda with an assumption that He is in complete agreement with us and that He must do what we want our way.
We must be willing to change and be changed in the process.
We must come to say and hear.
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Amen

We do not raise a stink over injustices and offenses to the compassion of Christ because we are addicted to odorous indignity, but because we are hopefully and prayerfully convinced that our voices can make a difference and have an influence over power.

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The illiterate of the future will not be those who cannot read and write. The illiterate of the future will be people who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. The question for us is, ‘ What have we learned that we need to unlearn.” - Alvin Toffler

 

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