A thread on knowing one's lane:
1. A few years ago I worked @Heritage and I did a radio interview on marriage and SCOTUS. I was a policy analyst, not a lawyer. I was asked a legal question by the interviewer and thought to myself, "Why, of course, I'll wade into the law."
These yearly practices have been vital to me. You have your own way of doing something similar. This is just an encouragement not to get so busy in these last days of 2020 to miss getting entirely alone with God who’s been faithful to you & recounting what this year’s been like.
@JJ_Denhollander@JJ_Denhollander I love the work World Hope International does. I have seen it in person in Katherie, Sierra Leone. I sponsor two children through their sponsorship program. @worldhopeorg
The son I gave up for adoption is 47 yrs old today. I don't know where he is, or how he is, and I will likely never know. But I think of him all the time—more so, as I age and become ever more aware of my own mortality—and I hope he is well and happy and, most importantly, loved.
Topeka Republican Rick Kloos is on cusp of defeating Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, the longest-serving member of the Kansas Legislature in state history. Kloos holds 800-vote margin with unknown number of ballots to be counted. https://t.co/CSE94HvCmC #ksleg
In 2000 during the Bush/Gore election I was in college. I would run home to watch the news every day after class to see the latest on hanging chads in Broward County. I did that for weeks.
20 years later, I may get to feel young again.
So much in 2020 has shown that having a world of information at your fingertips does not make you wise. It tends to have the opposite effect.
T.S. Eliot was right to ponder, “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”