See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.
No one really expects me to do anything offensively. But I expect a little more.
I know what I want and I'm going to work to get it.
A lot of things are going right. More is going right than wrong, for sure.
I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way.
Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.
I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.