“My friend Ray once told me we have the choice of being impressive or being known, but we can’t be both. I’m not sure I agree (especially since I’m impressed by people who aren’t trying to impress!), but I get his basic point. What we try to do with our efforts to impress is subterfuge. We put up a façade …
“Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons, for they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High. So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he …
