It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.
What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.
Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.
A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.
Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.
The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.
If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.
Once you do have a child you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be.
If you are on a TV series and you have a hard time disassociating from that character when you get home, your love life is going to suffer, your children are going to suffer, your friends will suffer.
Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.
I think a lot, but I don't say much.