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Your worldview is not what you say you believe about the world, it is what you actually believe about the world. People act on what they believe -- that is why actions are more important than words.
Remember the adage, "your actions are speaking so loudly I cannot hear your words"? Bill Frist provides a clear example of why this rings so true.
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What is success? Is Lance successful? Is Bernie Ebbers (Worldcom) successful? Is JK Rowling (Harry Potter) successful? Is Martha Stewart successful? Is Chuck Colson successful? Are you successful?
Is success measured by wealth? By fame? By achievement? By influence?
How you define success is shaped by your worldview. We all want to be successful and want our kids to be successful ... but what exactly does that mean?
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If you are a parent, you know the feeling. I like the look on Mrs. Roberts' face as little man Roberts breaks free and dances in front of the presidential podium. Mrs. Roberts appears totally calm and collected. I wonder what a transcript of her thoughts would read like.
We once did an advent reading in front of the church with all four of our childen with us ... one was a baby and one was a toddler at the time. It was an adventure, and brings a smile as I think back on it. I know a little of what the Roberts might have been thinking. Of course, my wife and I did not have an audience of 60 million viewers, and we were not standing next to the presidential podium at the time.
Hat tip: Between Two Worlds
I realize from Chad and Dave (commenters on my last "emergent" post) that Brian McLaren is not the only spokesperson for the Emergent Dialog, nor is he the intellectual center of the movement. He seems to be the most visible, however.
Let me direct you to an interesting PBS documentary on McLaren featured in Religion and Ethics Weekly. Watch it. It is about 8 minutes in length.
It was June of 1863. The location was near Culpeper, Virginia. The Union was still licking its wounds from its humiliating defeat at Chancellorsville. The Army of the Potomac was command by Joseph Hooker. The Army of the Northern Virginia by Robert E. Lee. Gettysburg was not yet a part of the national vocabulary.
Lee's cavalry commander was the brash J.E.B Stuart, pictured here. Early on the morning of June 9th, Stuart got a rude and unexpected awakening.