How was your living today? How was your first breath spent? Was it to pray? As your eyes strained to open, did you feel a great dare? How was your living today? How was your loving today? Did you offer a smile? Did you listen a while? Was forgiveness your gift? Did you ease a friend’s trouble? How was your loving today? Did you feel every beat of your heart? Are you certain that you will remember The roads you have travelled, the souls you have touched? Did you feel every beat of your heart? How will you rest this night? Will the history you’ve made be right? Is all that you’ve done true to the Son? How will you rest this night? How was your living today?
The Blessed and the Burdened (A Manifesto for the Well Born) It is truly a blessing to be well born. To enter the world through no doing of your own — cradled in safety, fed without fear, taught to speak the right words, walk the right paths, dream the right dreams. You did not choose your fortune, but it chose you. And for others? It chose differently. They are born into the bottom tiers, where the floor is hard, and the ceilings low, where the labor is endless, and the rewards are few. Their backs bear the weight of a world that calls them “unskilled,” “expendable,” “lazy,” though it cannot function without them. Society is not a ladder. It is a machine. And machines require gears — some large, some small, some shining, some worn down to rust. The economy does not ask, “Who deserves to rise?” It asks, “Who will serve where we need them?” This is not a flaw. It is design. If all were equal, who would pick the fruit? Who would sweep the floors? Who would clean the wounds, staff the mid...