Monthly Archives: March 2015

Persistence

Persistence – The Sustained Effort Necessary to Induce Faith From the book “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill. Currently I am reading the Book “Think & Grow Rich” and am going in an in-depth study of this book. This Chapter On Persistence is wonderful. This is as read and understood by me.   Persistence is an essential factor in…

Pity vs. Self Pity

In Earth & Altar, Eugene H. Peterson says.   Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble. Pity is the capacity to enter into the pain of another in order to do something about it; self-pity is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality. Pity…

Over Again

Out of my old files, found a gem Written by a Lady 85 years old, several months before her death, written as she contemplates, while she is sick, her own demise and her own dying. If I had my life to live over again, I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would limber up. I would be…