People today have become dichotomous personalities. Thanks to social networking, many people do not see a spectrum or continuum of possibilities. Everything today is either on or off, good or bad, either/or, success/failure. People do not see even the possibility of a middle ground somewhere sometime. No nuances welcome here. Thanks to digital communications, they spend more time being connected to one another. Too bad they use such opportunities to become less connected to one another. I am sure you get my drift. One of the best weeks of my life was the week I did not use my cell phone. WOW, What a feeling! What a sense of freedom that was. I will never do that again.

Being free from responsibility is not so great when your vision is driving you to create great things. An important part of me being me is me creating something. For me, being and doing is the same thing. If I am, I do. That’s it. How can we live and not want to achieve something scared, something deep, and something noble? Now that would be an empty life. Love really is the answer, and love is sacred, especially when we love what is sacred - like you and me. And yet so many people spend their entire lives without ever experiencing the sacredness of being, because they have not known love. Their Moms & Dads failed them. That is where it all begins. Thankfully, it does not have to end there. Deo Gratias! Thanks be to God!

“Trust is a very difficult human virtue, and even a more challenging behavior. Some situations absolutely require trust. Some situations do not require much trust. This virtue is one of those virtues that is so hard to find but so easy to lose. Even oil lamps do not help us much in our search for truth, and without truth, there can be no trust.”

The world presents great beauty. It is all around us if we just pause and open the eyes of our souls and take it in. However, this takes consistency in thought and action between our values and decisions. This, then, is the stuff of life.