Compassion is a two way street.
Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.
Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.
You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.
Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?
People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us
You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal essaying for This American Life, but until someone forces you, with a deadline, to really observe your life - unless you're motivated to do it yourself - there's so many stories that you miss.
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.