Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts: Will We Sit It Out or Dance?
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
—from Memoriam A.H.H., by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A friend and fellow writer recently blogged about dancing, taking the reader from her granddaughter’s dance recital to the Biblical account of King David dancing for joy as the Ark of the Covenant was returned to Jerusalem. https://www.katherinepasour.com/blog/dance-with-might/
Dancing with nothing on but a skimpy ephod, David withstood the criticism of his people, especially Saul’s daughter. He was excited for the return […]
Tuesday Thoughts: We Are as We Think
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
–Former football coach Lou Holtz
Last week I was privileged to sit in on one of my spiritual mentor’s Sunday School lessons—her final one after fifty years of teaching. The lesson was from 2 Timothy. Listen to these words, spoken by the Apostle Paul almost two thousand years age.
“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Friends? Who Needs ‘Em?
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
—Khalil Gibran, author and poet
Three years ago, then Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy announced his concern about a rising epidemic. It wasn’t hypertension, heart disease, cancer, or the re-emergence of Covid-19. It was loneliness.
Even before the Covid pandemic of 2020-2021, adults in the U.S. were reporting loneliness as a personal problem at a […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What’s Your One Shining Moment?
“Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration.”
—Roger Staubach, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback
I neither have, nor ever will, experience the emotion, intensity, and adrenaline bundled in one’s pursuit of a national championship. But Geno Auriemma, coach of Connecticut’s Lady Huskies basketball team, has. It was on full display once again during the Huskies’ semi-final game with South Carolina’s Lady Gamecocks week before last. And the coach didn’t […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Will We Sit It Out or Dance?
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
—from Memoriam A.H.H., by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A friend and fellow writer recently blogged about dancing, taking the reader from her granddaughter’s dance recital to the Biblical account of King David dancing for joy as the Ark of the Covenant was returned to Jerusalem. https://www.katherinepasour.com/blog/dance-with-might/
Dancing with nothing on but a skimpy ephod, David withstood the criticism of his people, especially Saul’s daughter. He was excited for the return […]
Tuesday Thoughts: We Are as We Think
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
–Former football coach Lou Holtz
Last week I was privileged to sit in on one of my spiritual mentor’s Sunday School lessons—her final one after fifty years of teaching. The lesson was from 2 Timothy. Listen to these words, spoken by the Apostle Paul almost two thousand years age.
“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Friends? Who Needs ‘Em?
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
—Khalil Gibran, author and poet
Three years ago, then Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy announced his concern about a rising epidemic. It wasn’t hypertension, heart disease, cancer, or the re-emergence of Covid-19. It was loneliness.
Even before the Covid pandemic of 2020-2021, adults in the U.S. were reporting loneliness as a personal problem at a […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What’s Your One Shining Moment?
“Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration.”
—Roger Staubach, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback
I neither have, nor ever will, experience the emotion, intensity, and adrenaline bundled in one’s pursuit of a national championship. But Geno Auriemma, coach of Connecticut’s Lady Huskies basketball team, has. It was on full display once again during the Huskies’ semi-final game with South Carolina’s Lady Gamecocks week before last. And the coach didn’t […]