RÉSUMÉ VIRTUES AND EULOGY VIRTUES

I am struck this morning by a distinction between résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. One has to do with career and the other relates to character. Your résumé virtues are the proficiencies and skills you tout in the marketplace. At your funeral, your family and friends will appreciate your eulogy virtues, your gentleness, loyalty and love. Our systems, educational and cultural, are dedicated to developing career success whereas we intuitively know our inner character qualities are most imperative. We may be better informed about how to enhance our careers than how to build inner character. It is possible to live for external achievement yet be disconnected from life's deepest moral joys and satisfactions. (thanks to New York times columnist David Brooks for the idea)

CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD THAT HE SHARES WITH US

Having mentioned the big ticket characteristics of God yesterday, such attributes as self existent, eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, self sufficient, time transcendent and non corporeal which belong exclusively to him, there are other qualities of God of which there was intended to be a reflection in the human. Some of these are intellectual attributes like knowledge and wisdom, and moral attributes such as righteousness, holiness, goodness, love, grace, mercy, longsuffering, truthfulness and faithfulness. And there are volitional attributes like reasoning, ability to choose, to decide and even to cause. Humanity was created to have relationship with God because of this resemblance and to desire to worship God and to have ability to serve him.