Several days ago, the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a florist was on the wrong side of the law when she refused to sell flower arrangements to a gay couple who were about to get married because of her opposition to gay marriage based on her religious beliefs. Now she might have to leverage all of her possessions to pay court costs.
“What a waste,” I said to a woman who was driving me home from a choir…..
“So, Peter,” a former choir director asked suddenly towards the end of a rehearsal. “What do you think of the line `Was blind, but now I see?`”
“Well,” I gulped. “It’s OK, I guess, but I prefer `Was bound, but now I’m free.”
Silence.
“After all, the hymn was written by someone in the slave trade,” I continued. “And some African American churches use this line.”
“But the line is clearly about spiritual blindness,” a choir member called from across…..
“As I get older,” a colleague said as we drove together to work, “I’m realizing more and more that everything comes down to trust.”
In “The Speed of Trust,” Stephen M.R. Covey argues that trust-building behaviors fall into two categories: character and competence. Many supporters and most opponents agree that President Trump falls short on character. Most of his supporters, however, trust his competence because of his business successes, believing that this competence will propel him towards making transformational change.
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