The book "Stephen King On Writing" would be a good tip.....................
Seems to me that "as blogs go" having this "open range" picture may distract form the real concern that we should all have over this poor hypothetical man who didn't get a donut? I'd bet he didn't have a coke either? On the other hand some of us come home from a hard day of stress and just go out for a 4 mile run and as far as I can see this approach sort of worked today. I have wondered some what to blog today. I did go to my own Amazon Reviews while pondering it all and resolved to re write my review on "Terror and Liberalism" since it just doesn't do the book justice as it is. I also considered adding a review of "Stephen King's On Writing" and also of a book by Ronald White on "Lincoln's Greatest Speech". I particularly like the Second Inaugural and Lincoln's timely and masterful insight into his audience. He noted that it was.........
"strange that any men should dare ask a just God's assistance
in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces"
He added that both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God and that the prayer of both cold not be answered and that of neither had been answered fully............... In asking these questions he presented another deeper question that goes to the
what the real principal of work is?
Is it fair for one man to gain his own bread through the sweat of other men, or with no effort of their own. In the sweat of thy face one will eat his bread is from Genesis 3:19 and the idea that man ought to work is a given from that point forward. Whether we dig in and do our best or expect to control others or more to the point benefit from what we didn't earn is a point of view Lincoln brought out in the open in his speech.
Dallan Oaks in one of his books said "how we interpret our experiences is a function of our degree of spirituality.
John Widstsoe suggested that there is a spiritual meaning of all human acts and earthly events. This suggests that all that we do "matters".
Nothing wrong with just wanting to do ones best
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