A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy.

-Matthew 8:1-2 (NIV)

Hokkaido was spared again. Earthquakes, Tsunami, Nuclear Radiation, Typhoons, Economic Instability. Lots of problems this year #prayforjapan

It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;

who errs, who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;

but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;

who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,

so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who neither know victory nor defeat.

-“The Man in the Arena“, Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

Watching the news re: yesterday’s typhoon. It was much stronger that I thought. Japan ‘survives’ another calamity. #prayforjapan

Perfect song for the 21st night of September! http://t.co/xMiAhHqV