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And the first shall be last …

Ever since I moved to an island in the middle of Puget Sound two years ago and no longer travel frequently, the friendly skies have grown less friendly. Alas, I slid from Premier Executive status to Premier. Yesterday, I learned I am no longer even Premier.

How low can you go, I wondered? I was about to find out.

I arrived at the airport in Seattle for a flight to Washington, D.C., and took my place in a long line of fellow travelers. Just next to
me, the Premier check-in line was empty, reminding me that the airline no longer thinks I am special.

After paying $25 to check in a bag (there's no baggage charge for Premiers), I was t...  read more

 
 

I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing, and endings are a disaster.

Sam Shepard, February, 8, 2020, New Yorker ~ p 72 March 7th, 2010
 

 
 

Christianity has to be disappointing, precisely because it is not a mechanism for accomplishing all our human ambitions and aspirations; it is a mechanism for subjecting all things to the will of God.

Simon Tugwell Celtic Daily Prayer March 5th, 2010
 

 
 

But in another way, community is a terrible place. It is the place where our limitations and our egoism are revealed to us. When we begin to live full-time with others, we discover our poverty and our weakness, our inability to get on with people, our mental and emotional blocks . . . our seemingly insatiable desires, our frustrations and jealousies, our hatred and our wish to destroy.

Jean Vanier Celtic Daily Prayer March 5th, 2010
 

 
 

Why does (God) make us feel the questions if he's not going to give us the answers?

Larry Gopnik,(portrayed by Michael Stuhlbarg) in the Coen brothers' 2009 film,  "A Serious Man." February 9th, 2010
 

 
 

Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady.

Bono ,U2's song, Stand Up Comedy February 9th, 2010
 

 
 

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable

Oscar Arias  November 21st, 2009
 

 
 

Be sure your face is towards the light; Study the fish's curious ways;Then keep yourself well out of sight; And cherish Patience all your days. p167 (Let no man think that he can become a successful angler by learning all about lines and hooks and rods and reels! He must study FISH). p168

F.W. Boreham, on what Jesus implied regarding being "fishers of men," The Uttermost Star: Heather and Bluebells March 5th, 2010
 

 











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