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I love Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy, and not just because they are hysterical. Back in 1996, when I worked at Media Play in the dead and dying Mohawk Mall, myself and some of the other employees we would read these over the loud speaker system. Why? I don’t know. It was fun… it gave [...]

5: Take your hand out of my drink.
4: Do NOT eat your diaper!
3: Hooray for poopie! (Said after Logan had been uncomfortably constipated.)
2: That mean ol’ tube of butt paste.
1: Well, it’s 8:00pm. I’m off to bed.

In the period of preparation for loving God, the soul loves in emptiness. It does not know whether anything real answers its love. It may believe that it knows, but to believe is not to know. Such a belief does not help. The soul knows for certain only that it is hungry. The important thing [...]

Forgiveness is an act of faith. By forgiving another, I am trusting that God is a better justice-maker than I am. By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness of God to work out. I leave in God’s hands the scales that must balance justice and mercy. [...]

The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.