“And thou, most kind and gentle Death, Waiting to hush our final breath,…Thou leadest home the child of God, As Christ before that way hath trod.” -from “All Creatures of Our God and King,” by St. Francis of Assisi Between the ages of twelve and thirty-one, I spent most of my days in an agonizing trek through […]
It is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God’sWhen mercy seasons justice. Therefore… Though justice be thy plea, consider this,That, in the course of justice, none of usShould see salvation: we do pray for mercy;And that same prayer doth teach us all to renderThe deeds of mercy. -William Shakespeare, The Merchant of […]
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his […]
The Empowered Loser 