Blog, page 36

—prayer of John Wesley

—Olivia, age 6

Tim Urban in Huffington Post on unhappiness of Gen Y (millennials):

It’s pretty straightforward — when the reality of someone’s life is better than they had expected, they’re happy. When reality turns out to be worse than the expectations, they’re unhappy.

“The info-blitzkrieg has spawned a… newly minted condition: ‘continuous partial attention.’”

Anthony Bourdain on Fareed Zakaria GPS

I love the World Cup.

John Piper on Christians and 9/11 (emphasis mine):

And what makes this text so relevant near the anniversary of 9/11 is that Paul spells out the kinds of things that cannot separate us from the love of Christ, and they are the sort of things that happened that day: “Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” The reason Paul chose to mention so many terrible things is to make sure we knew he was not saying: Well, there are some things so horrible that they really could separate us from the love of Christ. No. Nothing can separate us from Christ’s love.

Just learned a new word while grading papers: “Awenderniful” 100 points to anyone who can correctly define it.

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Barnes Hollow is an amalgamation of beauty, wildlife and can usually tell you that is considered part of Don James’ successful Husky teams.

Golly.

Dr Kross and Dr Verduyn therefore conclude that, rather than enhancing well-being, Facebook undermines it.

–Hosea 6:3