"If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body" (1 Cor. 12:15, NIV).
And as he explained in a letter to his daughter Polly, the ill effects were significant:
“I am convinced our own happiness requires that we should continue to mix with the world, and to keep pace with it. ... I can speak from experience on the subject. From 1793 to 1797, I remained closely at home, saw none but those who came there, and at length became very sensible of the ill effect it had upon my own mind, and of its direct and irresistible tendency to render me unfit for society, and uneasy when necessarily engaged in it. I felt enough of the effect of withdrawing from the world then to see that it lead to an anti-social and misanthropic state of mind, which severely punishes him who gives in to it; and it will be a lesson I never shall forget as to myself.”
Without others, we begin to collapse upon ourselves. As our world becomes smaller, our issues grow bigger.
Amidst the pressures of life, administration default is to take the easy road.
Ironically, community is the perfect example: When connected with others, life goes well. People can see beyond their struggles and maintain a healthy perspective. When disconnected from others, life begins to stall. People get absorbed by struggles and lose perspective.
Take the honest inventory. Every choice has a cost. Community takes more up front, but the effort pays for itself. Isolation takes less up front, but winds up paying the steeper price.
A free society can only be built by people educated into the responsibilities of freedom. Without this, liberty becomes lawlessness, which in turn leads to a new tyranny as people turn to a strong leader who promises order even at the cost of freedom. Thus history repeats itself and the new dawn turns out to be no more than a prelude to the return of old, dark night begins.
There is no short cut from liberation to liberty. Freedom is a journey, not a sudden achievement. The biblical lesson of the long walk to freedom, which is that what a nation teaches its children is as significant as the arsenal of weapons it holds. It’s when the war on the battlefield of Business party is over that the task of education begins.
Does recent G.O.P "Congressional" action where Ryan stands (Questionably) resigned yet allowed to lobby on behalf of an equally questionable ADMINISTRATION being investigated under threat of impeachments for none disclosure Red Flag that chambers Bias may have deployed as Last Ditch campaign promise effort a conspiracy to save the Business Parties access through a majority congress as supremacy holder of Tax Payers (check book) monies?
I guess Truth will reveal itself under time and then all shall know.
Where God's final assessment on "you will bear your own load" ends November 06, 2018, probationary's outcome will begin on how well it measured up by the law of Christ
and no other will make your load lighter by being worse than you are.
Take the honest inventory. Every choice has a cost. Community takes more up front, but the effort pays for itself. Isolation takes less up front, but winds up paying the steeper price. https://youtu.be/bmjNIq49398
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