Got work/life balance? - If not, you need to change some things starting now, because it doesn’t come without being very intentional about it. All your money and all your success can’t buy your kids a second childhood.
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The Danny Velasco story – a great true story of redemption and salvation. Again and again Jesus saves those who would be considered the least likely, and He uses his followers to be part of his plan. “Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Amen!
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The costs of political correctness – Black administrator fired for challenging – as a private citizen – the idea that the GLBTQ lobby is morally equivalent to the Civil Rights movement (friendly reminder: skin color is morally neutral, sexual behaviors are not). I hope the newspaper prints this excellent response.
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Gambler’s ruin is Darwin’s ruin - note to Darwinists – please read the whole article and comment at that site.
Darwin argued that “Natural selection acts only by taking advantage of slight successive variations; she can never take a great and sudden leap, but must advance by sort and sure, though slow steps.” But that is complete nonsense mathematically speaking because of the problem of gambler’s ruin. It is not surprising that Darwin could not see the flaw in his argument because he could not even do high school algebra even after substantial effort. The lack of basic math and logic pervades his flawed theory.
The problem is that a selectively-advantaged traits are still subject to random events. The most basic random event is with whether a parent will even pass down a gene to a child in the first place! Added to that problem is the nature of random events in general. A genetically advantaged individual may die by accident, get consumed by a predator, etc.
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(I have to be careful with how I say this, lest I be misconstrued)
The work/life balance thing is real. Many people become workaholics and ignore family. When I got married 7 years ago, I quoted Deut 24:5 several times (got out of a lot of committee meetings as a result – that’s about as close to war as I get).
But I think the work/life balance thing is sometimes abused. It sounds to me a lot like the “quality time” excuse that yuppies of yore used.
If the word “balance” is used, that must mean that at sometimes, work becomes more important than family and (no one will argue against) the contrary.
Also, I found that church is often the worst offender. Several years ago, I got so involved with my church, we couldn’t go visit our parents. Then when I taught a Sunday School lesson on Corbin, the truth hit me square in the eyes. We moved later that summer to be close to family.