

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Send me to a grocery store-I'm happy there. I want to rescue that old lady trying to reach olives on the top shelf, and then listen intently as she tells me about the greatest casserole ever made. During checkout, I've got a killer story about the zucchini people, which I'm sure will calm that ranting five-year-old and brighten the face of the wasted clerk. I'll challenge any teenager to race shopping carts like scooters into the parking lot. |
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Of course I want to run a company, build my wealth, and become the Governor, but I see grander returns from the business of compassion. I will love humanity. I'm painfully aware of how often I fail to live this way-distracted Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace; |
— Matt Beecher