2004-04-21
12:53 p.m.
I need to be more like Melanie Wilkes from Gone With The Wind. I�m much more like Scarlett. Here�s an interesting piece o� news: "Christian teens are stealing Jesus music. They're doing it through Internet downloads and CD burnings at nearly the same rate as secular music is being pirated, according to a new study done for the Gospel Music Association." -Susan Hogan-Albach, Dallas Morning News April 20th, 2004 More intriquing (to me) quotes: Since the dawn of time, humans have wrestled with temptation. "I don't understand myself," St. Paul lamented in the 1st century. "I want to do what is right but I do not do it. Instead, I do the very thing I hate." And that was before Krispy Kreme and Internet porn. If Paul were alive today, he'd really be tormented. -Roy Rivenburg, LA Times April 20th, 2004On a deeper level, temptation is driven by "dissatisfaction with life and what you've got," says Dallas Willard, a University of Southern California philosophy professor. The No. 1 antidote, he says, is to "find a way to be grateful and thankful, and then dwell on it, because temptation thrives on dissatisfaction." -Dallas Willard, LA Times April 20th, 2004
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