"Beam-ectomy should precede all mote micro-surgery. Just saying." Ginger Conrad paraphrasing Jesus Christ.

Paradigm Shift

“The list of health problems I think it would very hard to live with is SO much longer than the list of foods I previously thought I couldn’t live without,” Merrill Alley.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

intelligence in a modern day pioneer

Today I re-read the thought provoking essay, The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent by John Erskine, which reminds me about the moral obligation of self-determination, self-reliance, and the master virtue of intelligence. God wants us to study things out for ourselves, while seeking to live His will. He wants us to be anxiously engaged in good causes.

“Like the farmer, after you have planted the crop with your hard work and intelligence, you will still have to count on God to send the rain. If your outcomes are limited to the result of your best efforts then your outcomes are too limited.” Dave Ramsey

This lead me to think of Britta Riley's Window Gardens. I've been following this movement since its beginning. The idea is wonderful, but the greatest part is that she didn't whine for the government to fund her research. She is a modern day Edison, Ford, or Bell, a real, self-motivated pioneer, which is what built the United States into the great country it is-----or was----and can become again.


"O Wisdom of the Most High,
That reachest from the beginning to the end,
And dost order all things in strength and grace,
Teach us now the way of understanding."