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01.25.05 (3:39 pm) [edit]This weekend was the massive undertaking of great amounts of reading, writing and little sleep. I am still not caught up on sleep, but I am happy I got what I did completed!
For anyone not in Minnesota right now, it is veeeeery warm and nice outside! Who knew the snow would start melting today and it would be nearly 40-45 degrees?
Other updates? Hmm, well Lafe taught me how to pick a lock with a hanger a few minutes ago. If anyone has talked to my family recently, let them know I love and miss them.
And last but not least, sometimes I feel very frustrated with who I am inside. I feel like I have so many problems and few solutions. I was praying today that God would teach me how to trust Him. And I was wondering "what is the action of trust? Is it an action or a feeling? Then I remembered Proverbs 3:5
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will guide your paths."
I realized that trusting Him means I need to acknowledge him in all areas of my life! I cannot shut Him out of one area or another, I must let him into all my life. That also means I need to be unafraid to tell others that He is the reason for my "ways." He is the reason for the decisions I make, the life choices I decide, the way I treat others. I have always thought of trust as being an intangible, unattainable thing, but maybe it will become more real to me if I can put it into practice.
Here is a quote I ran across that inspired me today - i hope it inspires someone else.
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices
have very few virtues."
Abraham Lincoln
posted by: BroKenDreaMs (reply)
post date: 01.25.05 (1:57 pm)
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posted by: trickangle (reply)
post date: 01.25.05 (10:15 pm)
Wisely spoken, honey. I wonder what Lincoln means by that--does he mean that no one really can have no vices, and so people who say they don't are already worse off than those who admit it? That makes more sense to me than the obvious interpretation, b/c otherwise it almost seems like he's saying in order to be virtuous you must have a parallel vice (or something), which I don't think is true. But I suppose it's wrong to take it as a life standard, because he says only that that is his experience. Hmm. Still, good "food for thought" (I hate that saying but can't think of a better way to say it).
posted by: hopie26 (reply)
post date: 01.28.05 (10:14 am)
Reply to: trickangle
yeah, there are a few ways to interpret that quote. I like the way you examined it :)
posted by: trickangle (reply)
post date: 02.04.05 (6:22 pm)
Reply to: hopie26
Or maybe he means that people who have no vices are so boring and passionless that people with vices are more "vitrtuous" in his mind? This quote is very ambiguous!
posted by: hopie26 (reply)
post date: 02.07.05 (6:43 pm)
Reply to: trickangle
maybe, I tend to think that maybe he means that people who have depth usually experience the most problems. Kind of like in the Jars of Clay song "Frail" that says "Blessed are the shallow, depth they'll never find."
posted by: trickangle (reply)
post date: 02.08.05 (4:00 am)
Reply to: hopie26
But is it accurate to equate "problems" with "vice"? I guess maybe I'm just not getting Lincoln's vibe here--at all. You found one of the only quotes that puzzles me so much.
posted by: trickangle (reply)
post date: 02.08.05 (4:01 am)
Reply to: trickangle
Maybe I'm overinterpreting it--perhaps this is just a dignified way of saying "people who don't know how to have fun suck."