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Recently Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, entitled Magnifca Humanitas. In this work, he addresses the fast pace in which AI (artificial intelligence) is advancing. I took the time to read most of the work. (No, I did not and will not ask AI to provide me a summary of the 240 paragraph paper.) I found myself in agreement with the main points the Pope made. The first point he made is that we need to ask our Heavenly Father for wisdom to interpret the trends of our times. This should be obvious to all of us. However,...
Life is like driving. It’s not a competition, though many people treat it like it is. People who are competing are trying to have bigger and better, and have it for longer than the rest of us. Perhaps this kind of comparison living and trying to outdo everyone around you makes you happy; but it is annoying to the rest of us. And you should know that if you’re competing by blasting your sound system, my grandkids and I make fun of you for sharing such bad music. Life is a like driving. We all have different vehicles. There are...
The times are changing. Change should be something we are accustomed to, yet when we hear or sense that "change is a coming", we freeze up or start to panic. Many times change is not handled so well by ourselves. Change happens every moment of everyday whether we are able to deal with it or not, change simply happens. Between the years of 1993 and 1997 in my hometown of Spencer, IA, there was a high school teacher by the name of Mr. Haling. Mr. Haling was an interesting person and teacher, he would repeat a phrase if...