The experience of speaking to some people is probably in a sense, what it must feel like to be in space.
Blah, blah, blah...
I've never been in space but I imagine that stepping outside the capsule for a breath of fresh air is about the emotional and mental equivalent of those conversations.
I have the spiritual gift of offense.
If I'm every not a dick, it's only because God had spared both me and you from form that which comes so naturally to me.
So, maybe next time we don't get so lucky, huh?
You could surrender everything to God, but if you haven't surrendered your own will to pursue God's, you've surrendered nothing that wasn't God's anyway.
A dog is a dog and you can't kick a dog for being a dog. They're really just doing the best they can, and they are after all dogs.
Still, even knowing that doesn't make it a whole lot easier to endure those times when it's dark and I step in their shit, or when they continually bark at nothing...
all...
night...
long...
PS, this isn't at all about dogs.
Know what I mean?
Hope, it's the only thing stronger than fear.
A little hope is effective, but a lot of hope is dangerous.
A spark is fine, as long as it's contained.
-The Hunger Games
And that's how it works.
In giving our all, doing what's right, and in doing our best, there is found a resulting inner contentment. Whatever the result of those efforts may be, there is reward to be found simply because we know what we have done and how we have done it.
At work, at home or abroad, in living and giving this way, we will grow, and will find the strength to continue doing them in even greater quantity and quality.
The world will be a better place for our having done so and that in itself is the greatest reward to be found, and reason enough for us to continue living in this way through every aspect of our lives and in every environment.
Take time to think about these things and remember them before you open your paycheck.
Thank You,
Management
It's funny to think that my age, and looking the way that I do, I can still drive the girls crazy!
Don't believe me?
Just ask my daughters or my wife. They'll confirm it.
I've experienced a good number of things which were not good, learned a good deal of lessons which were not good, all through a good number of people who were not good, but none of it was, in the end, bad...It simply was.
Insurance companies are the mafia of morals, and the extortionists of love. The smell of fear is money to them.
Between fear and love, it is fear that generates the greater profit margin.
If your desire is only to generate great profit margins, with little actual return or accountability, appeal to the culture of fear.
Its a fact, maintaining good health means maintaining a balanced diet. As the saying goes garbage in, garbage out.
If we have a diet of only those things of which bring us pleasure, we may find down the road that it had left us with certain deficiencies whose thefts may be difficult if not impossible to recover from.
Unfortunately, this means that on occasion we have to eat things we don't enjoy, simply because they are good for us, and we know we should.
Certain things will never taste good, their taste makes them difficult to even swallow.
No matter how well seasoned, or how they're prepared, or how nicer the presentation, pleasure in consuming them will never be found.
And so it is on occasion with our words too.
Today is the last day of the past of your life.
Nothing takes the past away like the future.
The legality of an action is not the determining factor in regard to the morality of it.
When it comes to good decision making having an overwhelming amount of information can be equally as detrimental as having too little information.
Relevant information is the key element in making good decisions.
In the past 300 years almost 200 people have died from documented cases of SHC (spontaneous human combustion).
That's 2 people every 3 years! You probably know someone, who knows someone, who's heard of someone that's been affected by SHC.
Let's not wait for another 300 years and 200 more unnecessary tragedies.
No one should have to spontaneously combust.
You can't make anyone feel or think what they are not to by their own conviction and will.
You may change their mind, but never their heart.
There really aren't too many situations in which the blame for it couldn't be assigned as the result of irresponsibility, some other character defect, or just flat out sin.
When that can't be done, well then, self preservation is always a perfectly reasonable and legitimate reason not to do the right thing.
So, I wouldn't worry really about it too much.
Just turn up the music, look the other way, or think about some other good deed you've done in the past to console yourself.
The guilt will pass.
It's not your fault.
