"So easy even a caveman could do it"

This is a picture Nancy took through the window of our car at home depot the other day.  TELL ME THAT IS NOT THE GUY OFF THOSE GEICKO COMMERCIALS...   

(Yeah Gary, I know, I can hear that trap door opening right now.)

Who is Nelson Mandela...

I teach a Seminary class in the morning for high school students.  At the very beginning of the year I gave them this quote from Nelson Mandela.  They read and loved the quote and then a student asked me a question that floored me.  "Who is Nelson Mandela?"  I looked to the other students to answer but the all stared blankly at me.  Our lesson that day turned from a discussion of Genesis to a history lesson.  We can never forget the past, we can never forget who gave us our humanity or who helped along the moral evolution of our race...

BB

"Our deepens fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you.

We are all meant to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,

we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,

our presence automatically liberates others."

~Nelson Mandela

Inaugural Speech  1994

A little gift from a Big Worm...

This is a quote I was introduced to when "Big Worm" introduced me to DC Talk.  This is found at the start of the song "what if I stumble" It is at the same time very true and a bit convicting.  

"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknoledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle.  That is what an unbelieving world simply find unbelievable." 

-Brennan Manning

TO LIVE BY...

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievements, and at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat..."

-Theodore Roosevelt