“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

September 9

“To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.” - Abraham Lincoln

“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.” - Mother Teresa

From “Me Too 365,” by Arnold Kunst

8 September

 “Be careful that you, as a parent, don’t get seduced by emotional blackmail. It’s very easy, fairly early on in your career as a daddy or a mommy, to say to your child, ‘If you ever _______, you’re out of my life forever!’ No matter how provoked you may be, no matter what you put in that blank space, be assured: there is yawning disaster ahead that is as inevitable as it is profound.” - Arnold Kunst

“Create the life you’ve always wanted!” – Anonymous

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

8 September

Some people are like turkeys: they make lots of noise and congregate for solace and fellowship but never actually fly anywhere. You and I are called to imitate the eagle - sharp-eyed, comfortable with his own company, riding thermals at 1,800 feet, masters of all he surveys. That’ll all happen when we morph from turkey to eagle, when we give up reruns  of “Days of Our Lives” in favor of LIFE.

So, let’s go! 

“Success is failure turned inside out.” - Anonymous

 From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

September 8

The horrendous casualty figures just before the 1864 election seemed to guarantee that Lincoln would not be reelected although he was the party's official nominee, and many of his “friends” turned on him. Lincoln made the following observation: “They urge me with almost violent language to withdraw from the contest although I have been unanimously nominated...God knows I have at least tried very hard to do my duty, to do right to everybody and wrong to nobody. And now to have it said by men who have been my friends and who ought to know me better that I have been seduced by what they call the lust of power, and that I have been doing this and that unscrupulous thing hurtful to the common cause only to keep myself in office! Have they thought of that common cause when trying to break me down? I hope they have.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” - Anonymous

From “Me Too 365,” by Arnold Kunst

7 September

Your emotional default position, if you’re a loser, is: “Who’s got the rest of what’s mine?”

Your emotional default position, if you’re a winner, is: “I am SO grateful!”

 

“Quit you like men, be strong.” – The Bible

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

7 September

Your God and mine calls us to wed apparent opposites: like me, you need to express profound gratitude; like me, you need to measure up to profound challenge.

 

“Your true nobility springs not from your being better than anyone else but in being better than you used to be.” - Anonymous

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

September 7

“I am not ashamed to confess that 25 years ago I was a hired laborer hauling rails at work on a flatboat - just what might happen to any poor man's son. I want every man to have a chance.” - Abraham Lincoln