HeyJaredReckoning
Life is beautiful. It's also really hard. Science and ancient wisdom can help.
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Resilience Is a Team Sport: What I Learned Watching Ordinary People Become Heroes on 9/11 (opens the original)
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This morning, I delivered a short speech at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, as a part of their 9/11 remembrance event. I was honored to join two other speakers, Colin Kinney, who was in New York City that day, and CeCe Payne, a Brooklyn native. The event was meaningful, powerful, and beautiful. Here’s what I said along with the images displayed. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3KBE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%
The Great Why and the “Gospel” of Suffering (opens the original)
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It was the late afternoon of my 17th wedding anniversary in April 2022, and I was making my legal case against God. I had been building the case for one year, five months, and two days—compiling every argument about the grave unfairness, the unjust blow to the universe that took my son’s life in November 2020. For some reason, my time had come to address the jury, or more specifically, to accuse The Judge. All this while driving home alone on a nearly empty interstate. I became the prophet Job:
The Right to be Unhappy (opens the original)
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“I chose to come here because it’s important to do things that are uncomfortable,” I told the four other adults and six boys sitting nearby. “It’s by doing hard stuff that we get the confidence that we can do other hard stuff in our lives. And like it or not, hard things will come in life, and when it does, it’s helpful to have the knowledge that you’ve done other hard things, so you can do this hard thing too. That’s one reason why it’s good that it’s been raining.”About a month ago, I went on
Give More Grace (opens the original)
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No one likes traffic.It’s even worse when driving rules are mostly suggestions—and when a small number of those other drivers might be out to harm you on purpose. That was part of everyday life in 2013 while driving around Kabul, Afghanistan. I spent nearly that entire calendar year there in my military role as an advisor to the Afghan National Police.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xGFj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%
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