giving it the old college try

I copied down a quote that reads: ~~~~~The tragedy of man is that he can conceive self-perfection but cannot achieve it.~~~~~ It's like being a perfectionist - when we want everything and everyone to be perfect - but it's just not - including ourselves. And it is like Thomas Jefferson said so famously - The Pursuit Of Happiness. We spend our lives trying to find happiness - like Chris Gardner in The movie The Pursuit of Happyness - and we never quite find it - although we may find a sort a happiness along the way. But much is sacrificed trying to acheive it.~~~~~The author of that quote is a man by name of Reinhold Niebuhr - Who also wrote this: God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the thnigs I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.~~ Living one day at a time;~~~Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.~~~Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;~~~Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will;~~~That I will be reasonably happy in this life, ~~~And supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Or as Emily Dickinson so aptly put it - and she knows how to put things:I shall know why, when time is over,~~~And I have ceased to wonder why;~~~Christ will explain each separate anguish ~~~In the fair schoolroom of the sky.~~~He will tell me what Peter promised,~~~And I, for wonder at his woe, I shall forget the drop of anguish~~~That scalds me now, that scalds me now.~~~~~~~~Isn't she great - folks. That's what I call FAITH.