"We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom, and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we do about peace, more about killing than we do about living."

The quote above is by Gen. Omar Bradley, the "soldier's general" of World War II, who spent some 16 years in Army schools as student and teacher. I'm indebted to ThisDaysThought.org for the quote.

Yesterday the American consulate called to say Joel's passport had arrived. We went last week to renew it, and instead of coming away with it in an hour's time, they now send it the applications off to the U.S. So that meant another trip. The lady had said about 10 days, but as it turned out, it took a week.

Joel and I caught the 8 a.m. bus at the bus station. (Sometimes I catch it on the highway.) Arriving the Tietê station, we caught the north-south metro line, then hopped the subway under Avenida Paulista. Got off at Consolação and headed down Rua Pe. Joao Manuel, the street the American consulate is on. Within five minutes we had his passport in hand.

Retraced our steps and were back in SJC at 12:45 p.m. At Jacareí (the city before SJC), I called the house from Vicki's cell phone, but she had gone to Walmart with Micah. We just missed them. So Micah turned around and picked us up. I came straight to the office, since Joel and I had eaten a sub sandwich at the Tietê bus station before our departure.

Check one more off the to-do list.

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RV made the average top ten, number 3 position, on blogs4god. What a surprise! Now how about you just mosing on over there and edging us up the scale a bit more? You can do that here:

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"Not what we have, but what we use;
Not what we see, but what we choose;
These are the things that mar or bless
The sun of human happiness."

Joseph Fort Newton

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I don't know much about the writer above, but in
these lines he does express a most true
principle, one I have returned to repeatedly:
Life is as you choose.

We watched The Majestic on video last night. I haven't seen much of Carrey, since my wife, shall we say, strongly dislikes him. But this movie she enjoyed. But I observed that, like in the Batman movie, he doesn't really act. He does a caricature of acting.

And according to Fortune magazine, he's one of the richest men in America.

Riddle me this ...

Do moviegoers not notice?