A Small Package

No matter how smart, driven, creative, resilient, or anointed you may be, you can’t achieve anything worthwhile alone. As one great preacher used to say, “anyone wrapped up in themselves is a small package.”

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Secret Menus

We assume that what is being advertised is all that there is in stock. But I am learning that there is always more on the menu that may first appear. And since there is more on the menu that may first appear, we should never settle for the options that we see. There is usually another option.

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Yesterday's Trophies

There is no drug more intoxicating than nostalgia, which according to one definition is “a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time.”

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Decorations

In fact, you can make anything cheap look good with the right decorations. Some tinsel here, a wreath there; a light here, a candy-cane there, and even a chintzy artificial tree can be made to look far more valuable than it is.

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Good Enough Isn't Good Enough

The trumpet of toleration reverberates in every corner of our culture: be tolerant of other religions! Be tolerant of other lifestyles! be tolerant of all cultures! This idea of toleration has so saturated our society that rarely do most of us really think about it, let alone question it.

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