I have become convinced that it is the right answer for life – good and truth really are always the answer . Pursuing both is never wasted , and combining the two is the route to happiness . him in compiling his life ’ s work , a “ Key to All Mythologies .”
new church life : july / august 2017
I have become convinced that it is the right answer for life – good and truth really are always the answer . Pursuing both is never wasted , and combining the two is the route to happiness . him in compiling his life ’ s work , a “ Key to All Mythologies .”
She has the love ( the good ), but there is no truth for it to support , because the older man does not welcome her assistance and it turns out that his work is not going to amount to anything . She won ’ t find her real use in life until she can put her love toward something more deserving .
Anyway , there isn ’ t a lot of call for analysis of Victorian novels in law school or while clerking for a federal judge . But then I got called in for an interview with [ United States Supreme Court ] Justice Stephen Breyer . In the interview , we talked about some things directly relevant to work as a Supreme Court clerk – articles I had written in law school and my work at the court of appeals . But we spent most of the interview talking about Middlemarch . And by the end of the interview , we knew that we could work together .
I should point out that Justice Breyer doesn ’ t have some weird Middlemarch test for clerks . He spent most of the interview with one of my friends discussing cycling , something I could talk about for maybe three minutes . But it was a passion the two of them shared . And what Justice Breyer wanted to know was that we did have things we were passionate about , things we would think hard about and like discussing . And if they were things he liked too , that was even better .
Another example is a bit more directly related to my profession . In law school , I studied first amendment law . This is something you really have to study for the love of it , because almost no one actually gets paid to practice first amendment law . And at the time I was planning on being a tax lawyer , which I actually did for a couple of years after I finished law school and clerking .
It turned out that I liked being a tax lawyer ( a lot of it is like putting together a giant puzzle ), but I decided I would like being an appellate lawyer even more . And when I moved to Texas I represented a lot of public schools . It turns out that schools actually do have cases that involve the first amendment . And the clinic that I run at the University of Texas has taken on two first amendment cases this year . And it turns out that knowing a lot about this stuff helps in being a legal advisor to a religious school .
So you never know when truths you pursued for their own sake will come into use . But the things that can make us happiest are when we combine love
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