Yet another round-up of all manner of links that caught my eye recently:

~ I’d read this poem before, but I recently came across it again. It has captivated me:

The other gods were strong; but Thou wast weak;
They rode, but Thou didst stumble to a throne;
But to our wounds only God’s wounds can speak,
And not a god has wounds, but Thou alone.

~ Sometimes faith requires caring less.

~ “Shared responsibility payment“? Who names these things?

~ Victor Davis Hanson, as usual, nails it:

On almost every contemporary issue there is a populist, middle-class argument to be made against elite liberalism. Yet the Republican class in charge seems ossified in its inability to make a counter-argument for the middle class. Never has the liberal agenda been so vulnerable, a logical development when bad ideas have had five years to prove themselves as very bad ideas. When Obama is all done he will have taken high presidential popularity ratings, a supermajority in the Senate, and a large margin in the House and lost them all — if only the Republicans can make an adequate case that they represent the middle class, the Democrats only the very wealthy and the very dependent.

~ Put yourself in the path of God’s grace. YES, YES, YES!!

~ A new Netflix series in the works starring one of my favorites, Kyle Chandler.

~ The problem with smart people.

Happy Wednesday!