Hebrew Proverb

"Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time."  -   Hebrew Proverb 




I WISH I could get Ray's parents to understand this. 

Keeping culture and customs alive is one thing - making life difficult due to refusal to accept diversity is another!


I found this proverb while looking for something entirely different but it struck a chord with me.  


I love it.

My friend David

A conversation with my friend David via Facebook this evening:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&bID=533068532 <<< there is my latest paper. I had to edit a couple of things. All in all, I did a good job. I simply am hard on myself in my desire to create a freaking masterpiece though

6:56pmDavid

as it should be!

6:56pmMe

most do not care about making it really good for personal reasons

to me though, it's personal

6:56pmDavid

Neurotic self destructive perfectionists make the best masterpieces

6:56pmMe

LOL I shall remember that! Well said

hahaha

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I loved that. It not only pardons and justifies my extremist attitude toward my school work, but it glorifies it. Although it can be a flawed way of thinking, it is still very interesting and funny!

"Neurotic self destructive perfectionists make the best masterpieces"

hahaha awesome

Horatio Spafford

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
when sorrows like sea billows roll;
whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

These are song lyrics from the hymn  It Is Well With My Soul.

I always thought this song was inspirational, but when I learned a few years ago the story behind it, I thought of it as even more profound.

Horatio Spafford is the man who wrote it and he experienced a great loss when his four daughters died in a shipwreck. His wife survived but imagine what it would be like to lose four daughters...


On his way to go be by the side of his wife in England, as he passed over the place where his four daughters had drowned, he wrote the lyrics to It Is Well With My Soul.


If anyone wants more of a full story, you may go here since Wikipedia's article is very uninformative.



Imagine having such resilience!

Imagine having been stricken with such terrible tragedy only to rise above it and be thankful for the things that you do have! That is some incredible determination and I daresay (no matter your views on spirituality - I think this is nearly impossible for a miserable atheist to achieve) that such resilience is due a strong belief in a higher being. I don't know of anything else on earth or heaven, in this life or the next, that can create such a strong "peace that passes all understanding" (Philippians 4:7)

That is inspiring. 




Imagine...."peace like a river..." as the first verse suggests.

John Keith Falconer

“I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out 
in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.”

 -John Keith Falconer


This is a great quote. It's from a Christian missionary but it's not overly religious. It simply means that it's better to die trying to better the world for a good cause even if the odds are against you than to sit uselessly, idly by giving light where it isn't needed.