Beer of Patience
S o the young person went into life. Yet the path that stretches before him is long and the world will probably be difficult for him at times. If he does not enlist the help of patience now, then all his strife and struggle will be of little value to him. Soren Kierkegaard I read Soren every Saturday morning. I call it "Saturday Morning with Soren K." The most recent essay is on patience, an exposition on Luke 21:19 (In your patience you shall possess your souls). It take patience to read Kierkegaard. When I first bought the book Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses 15 or so years ago, I had tried to read it. I put it down. Now, I can read it, even several pages at a time. I suppose the Ph.D. made my mind more able to plow through the thickets. A lack of patience indeed is the root of some of what is wrong with the world. Get rich quick schemes, fornication (premarital sex), obesity, all have the feature "I want it now", consequences be damned. Esau is hungry...