The Resolute Woman

Category: change

  • Nothing new under the sun

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    “Now, nearly two and a half centuries after the Founding, the religious and political climate in America would seem a prime exhibit to support the Old Testament’s lesson that there is no thing new under the sun,” writes Jon Meacham. In 1822, Meacham explains, Jefferson worried aloud: “The atmosphere of our country is unquestionably charged…

  • Fear and certitude

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    “Extremism is a powerful alliance of fear and certitude,” writes Jon Meacham. “Complexity and humility are its natural foes. “Faith and life are essentially mysterious, for neither God nor nature is easily explained or understood. Crusades are for the weak, literalism for the insecure.” Jon Meacham writes about religion in his book American Gospel—God, the…

  • Sound the trumpets

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    Dr. James Griffin, president of the medical staff at Parkland Hospital, wants us to sound the trumpets and work to end health care disparities. In an article in The Dallas Morning News, Dr. Griffin says that one of his favorite quotes is from Rev. William Augustus Jones Jr. “Where a trumpet is expected, a flute…

  • Grand moments

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    It was warm today. Finally! And, I talked to a neighbor who was a standing in her yard. It was a pleasant moment. Maybe not a grand moment, but a good one. I was reminded of another quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. “We ask for a long life, but it is deep life or grand…

  • Happiness

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    Here’s more advice from Ralph Waldo Emerson. “For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.” I should have remembered that quote earlier today—when I got frustrated and a little angry. –Joy

  • Tired?

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    Last night, I remembered some advice from Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could,” Emerson said. Last night, I was tired. So, I went to bed. Today, I’ll begin again. –Joy

  • Courage

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    In her book Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan calls for us to act with courage. “Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the…

  • Chance

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    “It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance,” says Claire Keegan, author of Small Things Like These.

  • The truth

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    As Cervantes writes in Don Quixote, “The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks. It always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.” We hope what Cervantes says is true today in the age of splintered media. I visited the Cervantes Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, recently and was inspired to read Don…

  • The Right Fight

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    Eddie Bernice Johnson “taught me that the fight for good is rarely easy, but it is always right,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said in his eulogy for Eddie Bernice Johnson. Eddie Bernice Johnson overcame many of the obstacles faced by women and by Black women to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from…