Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
How long
til it seizes me
by the throat
?
So we now have Fortune magazine’s list of the world’s 50 greatest leaders. Let me give you the short story in the next paragraph.
Pope Francis at #1. Bill Clinton at #5. President Obama didn’t make the cut.
Fortune says the amazing-to-me exclusion wasn’t. Read it all
In my late teens and early twenties, I received a lot of teaching and encouragement from “Basic Youth,” so I’m very sorry about this:
On March 7th, Bill Gothard, the founder and president of the Institute in Basic Life Principles resigned from his position in the organization after allegations from over thirty women were made public that Gothard sexually harassed, and in one case out right sexually abused, these women while they were teens or young women.
I wonder what his side of the story is. Read it all
Are you a child born out of wedlock?
Or a child clearly not planned for by your parents?
Your presence on this planet may well be the result of your parents petitioning God for a gift. Then all I have to say to you here is this: Get on with fulfilling the vision of your parents and the purposes of God!
On the other hand, my dear reader, your presence here may not have been requested by your parents. For all that I know, you may be a so-called “illegitimate child…” Take heart! Not only are you just as legitimate a child as anyone else, you are on this planet by special divine appointment. God chose to put you here! Get on with fulfilling His vision and purposes!
Be faithful to your mission here on planet Earth! Read it all
