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In educational circles, I often hear teachers or administrators tell students to “Try your hardest, do your best, and believe in yourself.” This kind of stuff is intentioned as a motivational phrase.
But there’s a problem
There’s a huge logical problem with that statement. Believing in yourself is a surefire way of “wandering around [...]
The following is a modification of parts of a letter I recently wrote to a friend. Since a lot of what I’ve been thinking about came out in the letter, I thought it would be helpful to share it with some of my other friends.
I’m not going to go off on how teaching school [...]
I’ve had it!
I’m fed up with my dumb self.
My desire to know everything, to keep with everything, to have everything, to experience everything. It’s time to call it quits. It’s time to count the cost and pursue holiness anyway.
A year and a half of unfulfilled promises
Looking back at my
I waited patiently for the LORD;
And He inclined to me,
And heard my cry.
He also brought me up out of a horrible pit,
Out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a rock,
And established my steps.
He put a new song in my mouth –
I foresee 2009 being one of the best years of my life.
As I stand here looking at this year, the thing that strikes me about what is about to happen is one solitary word.
Discipline
Discipline is a good thing. In fact, it is a wonderful thing. I am not talking about punishment, [...]
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