The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring twopence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forearmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack. You should always try to make the patient abandon the people or food or
02.12.2011| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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This time of year, you hear it all the time: “Do you want to go do such-and-such fun thing tonight?” “No, sorry, I’m writing a thesis.” “Let’s have lunch sometime!” “No, sorry, I’m writing a thesis.” “Are you ever going to do your laundry?” “No, sorry, I’m writing a the
02.5.2011| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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Seniors, this is it. It’s the last shopping period of our college careers. In four months is Commencement, and after that we’ll be done with this place (except for those lucky few who go to grad school at Harvard, but let’s not talk about them). So what are we going to do with our last semeste
01.27.2011| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. (Psalm 1:1-2) His delight is in the law of the Lord, says the Psalmist. He doesn
01.20.2011| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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One of the great delights of being at home has been the opportunity to interact with my family’s dog, a seven-month-old terrier named Fritz. Even as I write this, sitting at the kitchen table, Fritz is lying in the center of the kitchen floor, stretched out as long as he can, sleeping. In a little
01.14.2011| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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What do you do about a lie? What do you do when a lie has taken hold of you, when it has wormed into your heart and mind and sunk in its claws, when it colors all your thoughts down to your basic view of the world? How do you get rid of the lie? How do you see the world as it really is? Because,
01.6.2011| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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This week, my Bible study and I looked at thankfulness in the Bible. Looking at the prayers of faithful people in the Scriptures isn’t a bad way of teaching yourself how to pray—and when once you look, the whole book is littered with prayer after prayer of thankfulness, moment after moment of re
12.2.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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