Good morning, Digital Neighbors! S.H.I.T – Sure happy it’s Thursday! Happy Thursday Friends & Refugees, Early Birds & Later Dayers, Awakening Wonders, Misfits and Phamily and all the ADD Irregulars and WSN Contributors that wander about on Locals. A few thoughts for the day posted below my morning rambling.
You cannot build a future based on resentments of the past. You cannot grow if you are mired in the injuries of yesterday. God and life do not call us to ignore such experiences, but He constantly call us forward, to be more, to receive more, to live more. Heal those wounds, work through those injuries, but do not be defined by them and do not try to build a future upon them. They are part of your story but not part of your foundation. Your foundation is how you overcame them, not how you held them in an embittered heart.
The more we live, the more we realize the gift of it all. The realization of life’s giftedness prompts gratitude in those who are whole and envy in those who are not. God’s conversation with Cain is to serve more freely and faithfully like Able and Cain too would be blessed. It fell on deaf ears. Envy had already hardened Cain’s heart. The remedy for envy is kindness, simple acts of consideration for your neighbor. It is more than just being nice, which so often is what many virtues get reduced to in the last few decades. Kindness is that helpfulness towards someone in need, not in return for anything, nor for the advantage of the helper himself, but for that of the person helped. I saw this sign years ago and it applies to my ramble and the quote below, Humankind – Be both. Have a good day digital neighbors!
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! - Dr. Seuss
Choice, not chance,
determines your destiny.
It’s up to you to decide what you are worth,
how you matter,
and how you make meaning in the world.
No one else has your gifts,
your set of talents, ideas, interests.
You are an original.
A masterpiece. —Regina Brett
What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
Red barn in Minnesota - another Getty image. 😊
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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