Sharper Strokes: Living Smarter, Not Harder

Even in the Christian realm, fervor, passion and feelings of faith have come to displace actual reflection about which of our choices are pleasing to the Lord. Though the Scripture says that "zeal without knowledge is not good" (Pro 19:2), in our day zeal is the popular replacement for knowledge. "I feel the Lord wants me to" has become the adequate reason to act. Yet, even for Christians, foolish actions still lead to dis appointment, no matter how full of righteous conviction one felt when he set out on the foolish course. And disappointment leads to discouragement and discouragement to depression. So, in the Christian realm, we, too, are in the age of Prozac. We have turned our faces away from lessons of the past. For more than four thousand years, sages in different cultures have taught their observations that, * No matter how one feels in the moment, all paths in life are not equally true or false. * Some paths in life are better than others. Some paths are wiser - and some paths are downright foolish. * And the one who chooses the wiser path comes out better than the others. --- excerpt from book's Foreword