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On love There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give Clive Staples Lewis  1950 I'm sure I fit in the 2nd category of the stupid. It's good to be loved 😎 Pastor / Chaplain  John Mark Thomas  iPhone 

"You ask about The Pursuit of Happiness at a good time in my life.  I have pursued life itself over many years now and with varying degrees of happiness. Some of my happiness still comes form trying to be in my own small way a true 'point of light.' I believe I was right when I said, as President, there can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others. SO I do that now, and I gain happiness. I do not seek a Pulitzer Prize. I do not want press attention. I don't crave sitting at the head table or winning one of the many coveted awards Offered by the many organizations across the land. I have found happiness. I no longer pursue it, for it is mine." President George H W Bush Pastor / Chaplain  John Mark Thomas  iPhone 

    "...Man does not exist for his own sake. 'Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created' [Revelation 4:11]. We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the Divine love may rest 'well pleased'..." - Clive Staples Lewis             1940 Pastor / Chaplain  John Mark Thomas  iPhone