His BlackBerry buzzed on the nightstand as the sun was going down. He waited. Two vibrations and it was just an email that could wait until later to be answered. Any more and it would be the alarm, signaling time to get up. Buzzz… Buzzz… Buzzz. Shit.

She wants you to wear traditional cotton pajamas…. mostly so she can steal the top.

When asked how to inherit eternal life Jesus turned the question back to the questioner. The man returned by quoting the Torah as any good Jew would have done. His paraphrase of the original has been repeated down through the ages for one simple reason. It captures the essence of what it means to know and follow God. When you strip away all of the debate and denominationalism in the public square today, when you stop arguing about whether Adam and Eve had navels, and whether Christ was an example for us to live by or a scapegoat for our sins these two commands remain. They are the simplest statement of what I’m supposed to do today… to do every day.

If you could design your perfect day what would it look like? Not a perfect day that can only happen once, like winning the lottery or getting a promotion… But the day you could live over and over again and be completely content? What actions would belong to a day like that? Eating a real breakfast? Walking the dog, listening to jazz, or reading in your favorite chair? Most of us will make resolutions or goals for this coming year that will aim at changing major parts of our life …

The pendulum of propriety has swung back and forth for centuries. The ancient Greeks had no concept of a separation between public and private life. In Jane Austen novels there are all manner of rules to follow before a man can be asked to dinner, much less find out something personal… like his middle name for instance. But society today has gone too far and the busy bodies of this world have no issue asking for your social security number and what the top 5 sites are in your web history. For all our sharing on Facebook, blogs, and Twitter there is still a very important line. We would do well to reestablish a certain reserve when it comes to the personal information of others.