Soul Food: Week of October 24, 2021

“Soul Food” is a regularly updated calendar of meditations sometimes questioning conventional wisdom & often suggesting eternal values

Sunday: Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings … Psalm 17 by King David

Monday: People who believe winning isn’t everything but the only thing will never believe those who say how you play the game is what counts most.

Tuesday: A leader must either push the team to meet its full potential or sink along with its limitations.

Wednesday: Say you’ll share with me one love, one lifetime. Lead me, save me from my solitude. Say you want me with you, here beside you. Anywhere you go, let me go, too … that’s all I ask of you. Charles Hart, The Phantom of the Opera

Thursday: A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. Tennyson

Friday: In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the “military industrial complex”. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Saturday: A list of the greatest dangers to American Democracy might include an apathetic citizenry allowing political power to coalesce in an elite intelligentsia & bureaucracy who, over time, become allied with a biased or radicalized academia & media.

Davd Soul