{"id":1024,"date":"2010-05-17T22:08:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T22:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=462"},"modified":"2010-05-17T22:08:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T22:08:01","slug":"leaving-a-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"leaving a legacy…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Waco, Texas, I gave a talk at St. Jerome’s Church. \u00a0 I said that we so often get puffed up with patriotism here; but Mother Theresa once said America was the most spiritually poor country she’d ever visited. A dichotomy? \u00a0 Yep… \u00a0 \u00a0 In Waco, we also met with Baylor University professor Tyler Horner. \u00a0 He said part of the reason society has lost some of it’s spiritual moorings is because recent generations are becoming more and more “self-focused.” \u00a0 This, in turn, leads to less and less volunteering. \u00a0 Tyler, who volunteered with Ameri-Corps and teaches about children and families at Baylor, said “every human has a need to leave a legacy.” \u00a0 And people who just focus on working to make a buck, start feeling quite unfulfilled later in life. \u00a0 Tyler, on a personal level, is trying hard to leave his own ‘legacy.’ \u00a0 He’s involved with Church Under The Bridge<\/em> for homeless people here and is helping coordinate a program with the city to \u00a0develop a high-quality, \u00a0early childhood learning curriculum. \u00a0 It is in early childhood, Tyler says, that a lof of the personality, learning styles, and so on, are formed. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> T-shrit sighting in Abilene, Texas: \u00a0 “I follow all the voices… in my wife’s<\/em> \u00a0 head.”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Waco, Texas, I gave a talk at St. Jerome’s Church. \u00a0 I said that we so often get puffed up with patriotism here; but Mother Theresa once said America was the most spiritually poor country she’d ever visited. A …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}