Scriptural Life Raft
Something I have seen under the sun: There are all sorts of “conversations” which, in one’s pilgrimage, one is tempted to be “drawn into,” potentially to waste one’s whole life, whether, for example, a bad marriage or a bad philosophy. The blessed man of the First Psalm, the happy man of Socrates and Epictetus, is one who can, by the exercise of virtue, avoid the contagion of bad company and make the right kind of friends. I regularly read Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, which have served as a sort of life raft, reminding me even now as an old man of what I knew when I read them as a child.
S. M. Hutchens is a senior editor and longtime writer for Touchstone.
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