One of my strongest recollections is my 25th birthday. My grandmother told me, “You’ll be 30 before you know it.” I knew this already. What I didn’t know was that I would be 50 before I knew it. Think of the words of the patriarch, Jacob. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage … Continue reading Advice to a Young Scholar