My Commonplace Book

Lynne Hybels spoke yesterday about engagement in the biggest issues of the world. She made the following points, which apply to giving leadership to all kinds of cultural change.
We must:
1. Be willing to start small. Just start somewhere, somehow. But be sure and start.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has [...]

(This 1898 photograph from a souvenir publication shows how Anne Sullivan (at right) “read-spelled” to Helen Keller and how they conversed.)
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not by the [...]