a result of debt

A home without equity is just a renter with debt.

~ Josh Rosner

Cross the Ocean

[a big goal is like] crossing an ocean. Some people try [by themselves], day after day,  … That’s like taking a rowboat across the ocean. It’s exhausting and usually unsuccessful.

Others have given up trying and throw themselves entirely on “relying on God’s grace.” They’re like drifters on a raft. They do nothing but hang on and hope God gets them there.

Neither trying nor drifting are very effective in [achieving the big goals]. A better image the sailboat, in which if it moves at all, it’s a gift of the wind. We can’t control the wind, but a good sailor discerns where the wind is blowing and adjusts the sails accordingly.

~ John Ortberg

your world view

Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas.

~ Unknown, thou some think Eleanor Roosevelt

changing my world

How do we get to a different outcome? Given that you don’t vote? (Russ)

Work to build through the promulgation of ideas and by example: freedom and liberty. If that culture is built, it will be reflected in the political process. If people want to be led by the nose, they will be.

Don Boudreaux on Public Choice, Econtalk.org (1:05:10+)

defining faith

Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.

~Hebrews 11:1