Wending Through Hinterlands

Pretty funny how some people are trying to figure out what being 'Rick Rolled' is all about. It's really funny that CNN didn't get it but a whole field of Mets fans did get it.

Quotables

It's time we recognized that the system [free enterprise], no matter what our problems are, has never failed us once. Every time we have failed the system, usually by lacking faith in it, usually by saying we have to change and do something else. (Ronald Reagan)
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. (Bob Dylan)
Walden - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of live, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. (Thoreau)
Walden - I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I have several more lives to live, and could not spend any more time for that one... I learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. (Thoreau)
Hinds' Feet On High Places - Love is beautiful, but it is also terrible – terrible in its determination to allow nothing unblemished or unworthy to remain in the beloved. (Hannah Hurnard)

The Lone Pioneer

The Light and the Glory - When a man can look at his own two hands and know what they are able to do--on the handles of a plow or an axe or the stock of a gun--when he knows what they can fashion with an awl or a plane or an adze--when he know that they can tell by touch how soon a mare will foal or how fertile the soil is--when a man knows these things, he may well think he does not need God as much. And then it will follow that he does not need other men, either.

Thus began one of the strongest and most revered of American traits: independence. The lone pioneer, carving out his homestead with his own family—that image occupies a most favored place in our cultural heritage. It carries on into the present time, with the glorification of the loner, the easy rider, and the rebel. The media extol him, the older generation relives youthful illusions through him, and their children believe in him and leave home to try to be King of the Road themselves—finding out too late that the dream is a nightmare.

It is a nightmare because God did not intend man to live alone... ( Peter Marshall & David Manuel)

A Covenant

The Light and the Glory - The Spirit also reminded us that the legacy of Puritan New England to this nation, which can still be found at the core of our American way of life, may be summed up in one word: covenant. We were reminded that on the night of the Last Supper, to those who were closest to Him, Jesus said, “This is the blood of the new covenant which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins…”

Covenant…it is a word almost never heard in American life today, for it speaks of a commitment to Christ and to one another which is deeper and more demanding than most of us are willing to make. And as a consequence, most of us modern American Christians are of little use to God in the building of His Kingdom. For the building of that Kingdom, as the Puritans demonstrated, requires total commitment. (Peter Marshall & David Manuel)

Wending Through Hinterlands

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

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