Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting that we know what's best. Strange isn't it-we who wear wrist watches seek to counsel Him who oversees cosmic clocks and calendars.

I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.