A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.” #JohannWolfgangvonGoethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (28 Aug 1749-1832) *Such as what we are seeing from the current administration…

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.” #JohnBuchan, poet, novelist, and politician (26 Aug 1875-1940)

I am catching up some devotions I have written for my church newsletter. davidjennys.substack.com/p/a-lesson-f... davidjennys.substack.com/p/come-by-he...

A Lesson From The Oyster

How can we overcome adversity?

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I am catching up posting devotions written for my church newsletter. These two were written in late winter and spring. I pray they are a blessing for you in any season. davidjennys.substack.com/p/betraying-... davidjennys.substack.com/p/changing-s...

A Lesson From The Oyster

How can we overcome adversity?

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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist.” #WinonaLaDuke, activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer (b. 18 Aug 1959)

“America has changed over the years. But these values my grandparents taught me--they haven't gone anywhere…That's why anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end. #BarackObama, US President (b. 4 Aug 1961)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Kind words, kind looks, kind acts, and warm hand-shakes, -- these are means of grace when [people] in trouble are fighting their unseen battles.” #JohnHall, pastor (31 Jul 1829-1898)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.“ #AlexisdeTocqueville, statesman and historian (29 Jul 1805-1859)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.” #ErnestHemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (21 Jul 1899-1961)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” #HenryDavidThoreau, naturalist and author (12 Jul 1817-1862)

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." #AndyWarhol

I posted this last year and thought I’d post it again. What do you all think? open.substack.com/pub/davidjen...

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “One's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- and one's last is to come to terms with everything.” #GeorgChristophLichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1 Jul 1742-1799)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Life is an adventure in forgiveness.“ #NormanCousins, author, editor, journalist, and professor (24 Jun 1915-1990)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Everybody needs [their] memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.” Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel laureate (10 Jun 1915-2005)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Live and let live, be and let be, / Hear and let hear, see and let see, / Sing and let sing, dance and let dance. ... Live and let live and remember this line: / "Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine."” #ColePorter, composer and songwriter (9 Jun 1893-1964)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.“ #RobertFulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “There are many forms of patriotism and telling the truth is one of them.” #AndersonCooper, journalist and commentator (b. 3 Jun 1967)

”The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.” -Walt Whitman, poet (31 May 1819-1892)

The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life-the sick, the needy, and the handicapped. #HubertHoratioHumphrey, US Vice President27 May 1911-1978

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who seem to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.“ #RosanneCash, singer-songwriter and author (b. 24 May 1955)

“The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent...” #BertrandRussell, philosopher, author, Nobel laureate

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.” #ThomasPynchon, novelist (b. 8 May 1937)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” #AnnieDillard, author (b. 30 Apr 1945)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.” #KarlKraus, writer (28 Apr 1874-1936)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY “The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.” #RobertLynd, writer (20 Apr 1879-1949)

“There is…beauty in discovery…mathematics in music…kinship of science, poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule…All…are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan, the musician.“ #GlennT.Seaborg

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only ONE day, of modern warfare.” #PeterUstinov, actor, writer, and director (16 Apr 1921-2004)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying "no" to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope.” #AmyGoodman, investigative journalist, columnist, and author (b. 13 Apr 1957)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “You see, war is not the answer / For only love can conquer hate. / You know we've got to find a way / To bring some lovin' here today.” #MarvinGaye, singer and songwriter (2 Apr 1939-1984)