I had written almost two thousand words this week, working out this idea, and decided to scrap them all. This is a rewrite. The question this week is simple: what do we have to gain? Two years ago I came upon Dallas Willard’s four great questions of life. They became so formative for me that I gave a TED talk about them. This week’s thinking zeros in on the answers we carry for two of the four questions. What if there was a way of living through which the outcome would be receipt of the good life, and becoming a really good person. Wouldn’t that be something? It would indeed be something to gain.

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