St Peter left Rome thinking it easier to flee than stay and make a stand. He was shown that error when Jesus appeared to him on the Appian Way. “Quo Vadis?” Where are you going?
Sinners who are by self-definition and always dramatized action completely godless always create hell on earth, especially as there are now 8 billion of us and we have the powerful technology so to do.
I think back to the days when my younger son was suffering from severe reflux as a baby - he didn't start sleeping through the night consistently until he was 2½ years old. From about six months, setting him down to sleep made him scream like he was getting killed. It took a bit to convince his pediatrician that something was really wrong, and in the end, we never found out why, but in the meantime, I was stuck holding him in a pretty specific way and nursing him when even that wasn't enough to make him comfortable. I can't begin to explain how difficult that was - I felt like the walking dead all the time. I think setting these "goals" for endurance is a logical coping mechanism; if you would have told me at the beginning that I'd be dealing with this stuff for two years, it wouldn't have been helpful, I don't know if I would have given up or what. Setting the little goals is helpful sometimes, but probably only when the end point is known. Having already read stuff about people being disappointed to the point of letting go on life if their goal hopes got dashed, I tried very hard not to pretend that "hey, if I can get to Christmas, I'll be fine." It was a long, long plod to a point where things did get better, but in the beginning, that took a bit to recognize as well. Then, all of a sudden, it was like - "He's slept on his own for a week!" and the cautious optimism that came along from that point.
Perot and Stockdale would've been interesting.
St Peter left Rome thinking it easier to flee than stay and make a stand. He was shown that error when Jesus appeared to him on the Appian Way. “Quo Vadis?” Where are you going?
Sinners who are by self-definition and always dramatized action completely godless always create hell on earth, especially as there are now 8 billion of us and we have the powerful technology so to do.
Happy New Year to you as well! :)
I think back to the days when my younger son was suffering from severe reflux as a baby - he didn't start sleeping through the night consistently until he was 2½ years old. From about six months, setting him down to sleep made him scream like he was getting killed. It took a bit to convince his pediatrician that something was really wrong, and in the end, we never found out why, but in the meantime, I was stuck holding him in a pretty specific way and nursing him when even that wasn't enough to make him comfortable. I can't begin to explain how difficult that was - I felt like the walking dead all the time. I think setting these "goals" for endurance is a logical coping mechanism; if you would have told me at the beginning that I'd be dealing with this stuff for two years, it wouldn't have been helpful, I don't know if I would have given up or what. Setting the little goals is helpful sometimes, but probably only when the end point is known. Having already read stuff about people being disappointed to the point of letting go on life if their goal hopes got dashed, I tried very hard not to pretend that "hey, if I can get to Christmas, I'll be fine." It was a long, long plod to a point where things did get better, but in the beginning, that took a bit to recognize as well. Then, all of a sudden, it was like - "He's slept on his own for a week!" and the cautious optimism that came along from that point.