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Choose Adventure Over Comfort
Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet yourtrouble: the fashion of the world is to avoidcost, and you encounter it. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing I’m old enough now that sitting in a comfortable chair often leads to sleep. It’s not something I do but something that happens to me against my intentions.…
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Patience and Power
Love begins with patience. Fundamental to every act of love is respect for the agency of the one loved. This is the main reason why God does not intervene in ways we think he should to prevent war, pestilence, famine, and other causes of large-scale suffering. His intervention takes the form of individual acts of…
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Winning
Love has a million disguisesBut winning is simply not one “Citizens” by John Guerra When I was a kid and even well into adolescence, I played with my siblings a game we called Good Guys and Bad Guys. It involved two teams, usually self-selected. The Bad Guys would do something nefarious—kidnap, steal, or kill—and the…