If A Man Is Ever To Find

A Soldier Surrounded By Enemies, If He Is To Cut His Way Out, Needs To Combine A Strong Desire For Living With A Strange Carelessness About Dying. He Must Not Merely Cling To Life, For Then He Will Be A Coward, And Will Not Escape. He Must Not Merely Wait For Death, For Then He Will Be A Suicide, And Will Not Escape. He Must Seek His Life In A Spirit Of Furious Indifference To It; He Must Desire Life Like Water And Yet Drink Death Like Wine.

Faith Looks Back And Draws Courage; Hope Looks Ahead, And Keeps Desire Alive.

Moses Does Not Encounter The Living God At The Mall. He Finds Him (or Is Found By Him) Somewhere Out In The Deserts Of Sinai, A Long Way From The Comforts Of Egypt... Where Did The Great Prophet Elijah Go To Recover His Strength? To The Wild. As Did John The Baptist, And His Cousin, Jesus, Who Is Led By The Spirit Into The Wilderness.

What Strikes Me About Jesus Is That He Is A Remarkably True Person; He Never Changes His Personality To Fit In With Whatever Crowd He Finds Himself. He Is Simply Himself, And He Never Plays To His Audience.

We Are Created For Adventure, And If We Cannot Find One, We Start Blowing Things Out Of Proportion So It Feels Like We Have One.