“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer”
Top Ten Goals. Pretty great selection.
I’ve always loved space. Nasa will be attempting the rediculous, landing an SUV sized rover on mars. There will be rockets, parachutes, explosions and a high chance of failure. I love that this is what they came up with though. I imagine those meetings involved yelling and doubt. Here’s to the first American SUV on a different planet.
Bonhoeffer Late Night
I was discussing Deitrich Bonhoeffer with my roomate last night. He’s currently reading the book and I finished it a couple of weeks ago. He remarked how unaccomplished he felt in comparison to Bonhoeffer at a similar age.
We then decided Bonhoeffer had lived in a time where much more was demanded of men.
I don’t know where or why that changed but I think it has had a profound effect.
I love the rawness of this video.
“Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing”
“The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is ‘Do not fear.’ It’s in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn’t let fear boss us around. Before I realized we were supposed to fight fear, I thought of fear as a subtle suggestion in our subconscious designed to keep us safe, or more important, keep us from getting humiliated. And I guess it serves that purpose. But fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”
There is an intersection of joy and reality. Sometimes you can see so much in so little. This boy was in a section of Panama City called Panamaviejo. People wonder why there is happiness amongst bitter poverty. It’s not because being poor doesn’t suck; it’s because our condition isn’t our fate.
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey”