
Better to be Wise than Clever
The poet Rumi once wrote: “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” How often do we try to do too much in a given day?
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The poet Rumi once wrote: “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” How often do we try to do too much in a given day?


Consider for a moment the many hands that made the plate of food in front of you possible.

St. Francis of Assisi was a medieval man to his core, yet his problems were not dissimilar to what we face today.

There is no shortage of bad news at our fingertips: televisions, radios, smartphones, and computers are delivery methods that feed our collective anxieties. Let’s turn them off and focus on the Good News instead.

Time can be an adversary or an ally. But what’s comforting is that it always moves forward.

God knows our flaws and loves us in spite of them. We are not irredeemable.