Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Good plan from the man

The best thing I read today:

I have been blessed with what is so deeply ingrained in me that it is almost automatic- a reflex to most circumstances and events that directs me to seek out the creative and constructive opportunity in almost every situation. I am philosophically, spiritually, and emotionally persuaded that virtually every circumstance, however adverse or bewildering it seems to be that moment, has a creative potential, that my task is to find that potential- to avoid preoccupation with immediate unfavorable impact and move beyond to the lesson or direction or opportunity that the Lord has opened up.

-Jim Rouse

Good plan (despite the shout-out to the spirit world). With a can-do attitude like this, it's no wonder that a project like Columbia, which any fool could have seen was impossible to build, came into existence.

4 comments:

wordbones said...

Amen.
JR was a role model for me as a young man. I had the privilige of knowing him and working for him. His ideals and philosophy continue to guide my life.
To put it mildly, he was an awesome dude!
-wb

Anonymous said...

Why do you think so many in Columbia, who have been here for years, quote the stuff they like, like open space, but fight against the stuff they don't like affordable housing for all who work here in Columbia?

Anonymous said...

Anon 5:45- That irks me, too. In particular, many members of HCCA and CoFoCoDo are famous for that type of selective thinking. I guess the last one on the wagon gets shot in rear end. Or something like that.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous,

Rascals and Republicans, Dictators and Democratics, the Red Party and the Green Party all quote Jefferson

The evil and the saints amongst us quote the Bible.

Those of us who accomplish little quote those of us who accomplish much.

Sheakspeare understood this, this thing we refer to as human nature.

He referred to it in his writtings, and now we refer to him.

To jump on the wagon is either to escape or to lead, to be the last is either to follow blindly or or to do what is right, even if it is a pain in the butt.

Who amongest us has the right answer. Even men of science, those who understood abstract could not believe in the Big Bang Theory, but men of religion, who understood emotions, could comprehend it.

It does feel good, and so human, to believe in something or someone.To quote what we accept or believe, is to attempt to offer quidence, if not for others, maybe just for ourselves.

That's my sermon for today, and I feel good about it, even if no one else gives a damn.