In Midcareer, a Turn to Faith to Fill a Void

[NVMojo]

(it must have been the Reagan influence ...)

DALLAS, Oct. 4 - By 1979, Harriet E. Miers, then in her mid-30's, had accomplished what some people take a lifetime to achieve. She was a partner at Locke Purnell Boren Laney & Neely, one of the most prestigious law firms in the South, with an office on the 35th floor of the Republic National Bank Tower in downtown Dallas.

But she still felt something was missing in her life, and it was after a series of long discussions - rambling conversations about family and religion and other matters that typically stretched from early evening into the night - with Nathan L. Hecht, a junior colleague at the law firm, that she made a decision that many of the people around her say changed her life.

"She decided that she wanted faith to be a bigger part of her life," Justice Hecht, who now serves on the Texas Supreme Court, said in an interview. "One evening she called me to her office and said she was ready to make a commitment" to accept Jesus Christ as her savior and be born again, he said. He walked down the hallway from his office to hers, and there amid the legal briefs and court papers, Ms. Miers and Justice Hecht "prayed and talked," he said.

She was baptized not long after that, at the Valley View Christian Church.

more...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/politics/politicsspecial1/05miers.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1128496178-aWX8yB2eBokz1VdYVuyRGQ&pagewanted=print

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Me, too

I've been feeling a void in my life, too. No matter how badly I fail, I feel that I have somehow sold myself out. I haven't been drinking, and I don't have a Close Personal Relationship with the local police.

I've concluded that this emptiness can only be filled by the conscientious abuse of drugs and wildly promiscuous sexual romps with women young enough to be my daughter -- across state lines.

So, who will hear my confession, baptize me, and hook me up with a really good supply of contraband? (The girls will be no problem -- I start Seminary in January.)

--p!

[NVMojo]

3. love it!!!

[Erika]

4. If you were a politico Texan guy

you could have all kinds of fun with Condi and the new nominee. They would have thought you brilliant.

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[Erika]

2. Yeah and she became a born again evangelical

and thought W was the most brilliant man she'd ever met. She had no husband nor children. How sad. W is good at surrounding himself with the likes of Condi and this woman.

[punpirate]

6. So was...

... Ted Bundy. Very attractive, and convinced a lot of isolated and at odd ends women of his charm and sincerity, sometimes to their detriment.

[Boomer]

9. At least Bundy WAS charming

What's George. W's excuse? What do these women see that totally, completely escapes me?

[fasttense]

7. A mediocre lawyer has now become a symbol of success

You too can be mediocre and if you do illegal things for a person in power, you may end up as pres.., I mean one of the silly Supremes. The dream of every American.

[leftchick]

8. this is the guy she had an affair with right?

he was the one who helped her "find Jesus"? :puke: