Saturday questions--Who made the "click" happen in your life? Do you think you were the "click" in any one's life (i.e. all of sudden something clicked in their brain and they got it)? SweetnessDebbie says--Ya, you have the opportunity to take a sad song and make it better (i.e. give someone confidence)! Sometimes folks just need a break in life and you can be their break (i.e. break someones code)! Even if they don't realize it or don't say--thanksalot thanksalot! ItchieBitchie says--A great clicker knows someone can, even when they don't even know they can (i.e. they just pass it to a person sorta kinda by osmosis). SusieQ says--Are you necessary to someone--EVERYONE has their own sphere of influence! Sometimes those breaks just fall into your lap (e.g. marry into a certain family, marry the right person, meet the right person, become receptive to good advice, have a good boss, meet the right friend. someone cares for you and takes an interest, someone gives you an opportunity, someone encourages you etc) LuckieEddie says--I have to love some folks 'cause they make me love myself! ? AND sometimes events in our life provide opportunities that we never expected. A heart patient who I visited with when volunteering told me just that. Her name was Jerry who was maybe 50. She told me she has many sever health issues and needed to move back in with her father. She said I'm the only kid who can get along with dad (i.e. age 78)--how come I asked--I guess we are the only ones that can tolerate each other; I just go with the flow and don't get toooooo excited--It has just been great for me and my dad (i.e. I would never thought this but it has really affected me in a very positive way). It has become a great opportunity for him too. It has put meaning back into his life. My other siblings said it made him a different person and my grand kids say--Something has really change granddad as he is sooooooo happy and positive about his life once again. Sooooooo Jerry or her dad did not plan this but it just fell in their laps. They just let it happen. Such is life.
I want to tell you about two of many "clicks" that happened to me in my life that had a massive huge effect on me (i.e. they just fell in my lap folks). Both occurred during my junior year of high school. My father was ill and it was not a fun time actually in my life. I was a very shy and insecure kid. I tried out for the junior class play 'cause some of my buddies were going too. I had no real thought of really getting a part. Mr. Steinman, the speech teacher, casted me as Barnabe Tucker in the Matchmaker. It was a "click" in my life. It impacted my life forever (i.e. I have never been in a play since). The other one was the same year. At basketball practice one night, I just couldn't miss anymore (i.e. I probably made a couple of baskets and for whatever reason I thought I couldn't miss anymore). Sooooooooooo speech teacher Mr. Steinman and Coach Black were "clicks" in my life (i.e. maybe they never knew it). And you know what, both experiences just fell in my lap. I googled Lowell Lueck who played opposite of me in the play as Cornelius Tucker (i.e. a high school friend). He lives in CA. I contacted him (i.e. haven't had any contact with him since high school at good ol' Danube, MN some 45+ years ago probably). Found Mr. Steinman on facebook. He too I had no contact with since high school. Huh, modern technology!
I know this mister sir Paul a.k.a TheNDBeetFarmer who told me that when he was born out on the farm the doctor came to deliver him but he was sooooooo drunk that his aunt put the doc to bed and had to deliver him. I think that's funny. And you know what, he seems normal. But how do you really know. He flunked first grade he told me. Ya, 'cause of deportment (i.e. all he wanted to do is shoot marbles--). He matured to be a very successful man (i.e. successful in a lot of different ways). Sooooooooo one just never knows does one. He just let it happen and bingo! All that good stuff just fell in his lap--well maybe! I recently was in a business and talked to the assistant manager of this store in a chain of many. I asked him if he knew a former student of mine (i.e. a zillion years ago) who is "top management" of this company. He said, I sure do--Now there is one successful man. Well folks, I think "this one successful man" started out at the very bottom. Someone or several folks were the "clicks" in his life I would bet. Here's a laugh folks--can you imagine if teachers would flunk kids for bad conduct now days!
Sometimes things just happen. I watched some of the documentary on the Civil War the other night (i.e. 150 year anniversary). It just happened. Abraham Lincoln really had a hard time finding a general now didn't he (i.e. one that wanted to fight a.k.a. make it click--McClellan just wouldn't move). It appears to me that to be an effective general (i.e. change a situation), a guy would have to be an icy cold man to give orders for all those soldiers to be killed in battle (i.e. over 600,000). Abe said--McClellan always had excuses (i.e. sounds like me sometimes). Saturday question--Are the majority of folks drunk as to what's going on in our country today or has it always been that way?
I received this response from a friend after I shared something exciting in my life with him (i.e. it just fell in my lap)--He said--Wow, are you lucky. Make sure you say a pray acknowledging why God is so good to you.
Sometimes we thing everything is sooooooo problematic and really it isn't. A pastor friend told me recently--It's a depressing realization that I'm not in charge of making everything happen. LuckieEddie says--The Holy Spirit has to be present for things to happen. GerogeTheCrook says--We need to do our part but we are not the real "doing part". Sometimes we just need to let it happen and get out of the way (i.e. get rid of our massive huge ego).
My gracious! I know of several folks who have made 180 degree turns in their lives--why, I have no idea (i.e. everything just plain computed). Maybe something or someone touched them and they just let it happen. You think that is possible? Many times they can't explain it themselves why the change happened. It just seemed to fall in their lap. Changes make a guy change how he looks at things--things seem to start to click. Ya don't really plan for it sometimes but all of a sudden ya get great results. Why, I don't have a clue. Something makes a guy click. Sometimes it seems it's best to just step back and get out of the way--let it happen. That change could just give us the ticket to the party!
A friend told me that he is 57 and if he doesn't change, before long his life will be over and he'll miss much good stuff (i.e. that is what he said folks). And time just flies by folks (i.e. the best time to do anything is RIGHT NOW! The OldTimerWalt says--The older you get the faster it goes. I'm getting to be the old timer and I think that statement is right. I just let it happen. Joexixpack says--Be nice to others 'cause...Time WILL make a difference! One day you will no longer be the big dog...Just the old dog...And my friend, WE are now the old dogs. However, old dog is better than dog-gone! Such is life.
Joesixpack says--Sometimes we just plain over cook it! AYoungFriend a.k.a. Laddie, maybe 16, answered my question--"so what are you going to do" with this response: I'm kinda looking to God to guide me in the direction he wants me to go. After all, it's gonna happen the way he wants it no matter what. Might as well be in accordance with him. I think he is saying--I'm going to just let it happen--let it fall in my lap. I remember reading in a book this statement that has really stuck with me through the years. When praying, pray to ask God where you can help Him in His plan and don't ask God to help you in your plan. We seem to always want it our way now don't we (i.e. at least I do--such is life). When I turn it over to Jesus, I many times feel like I just took an Alka Seltzer--what a relief it is! SusieQ says--ya gotta be patient and listen to the small whispers; changes will happen when you look at things from a different perspective (i.e. things will start to click for ya--oh ya). We then rethink possible!
LuckieEddie says--Imagine how frustrating it must be to have everything you want but can't find what you need (i.e. in reference to Solomon and his 700 wives and 300 concubines). CadillacJack says--We may be wrong even when life is good! Many of you have acquired huge massive amounts of worldly wealth either by luck, hard work, married it or you inherited it. ANYWAY I think we all have a responsible to use this wealth to produce a "click" in someone else (i.e. my opinion). Actually many of us had many "clicks" given to us by others (i.e. think about that folks). Ya, the giving of money is good but the giving our our time, sharing our knowledge, showing love, and using some of our time is probably even more important. What do you think? MissPerect says--Yabut there seems to be soooooooo many folks/kids who need my "click", that I can't help them all--I feel like a penny in a trillion-dollar deficit. But you know what MissPerfect, if we work collectively, our acts, large and small, can and will make a big difference in one or many folks' lives. Oh yes. Every penny counts. Solomon was the richest and wisest person (i.e. maybe you are now but he was at that time). But this is what he said about all his wisdom and worldly wealth--Meanness meanness, a chasing after the wind. He said the conclusion of the matter is to Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man. So throw those chips away, get your butt off the couch and do something folks. LuckieEddie says--The best feeling possible it to help someone (i.e. make some one's life better).
Do we deserve everything to be perfect? Like in playing golf, do we deserve everything to go in the hole? If we are microscopically off on our putt, it will rim the hole and go out. The tolerance is soooooo fine in making it or missing it. When the ball doesn't go in the hole (i.e. or in life when things don't go my way) it feels like a heavy body blow but a guy just has to take it. The difference between going in the hole and great happiness or not going in the hole and unhappiness is a smidgen many times. Sooooooo those putts and actions in life can scare the living day lights out of a guy alright. When the ball doesn't go in the hole every time, a guy can loose his cool and then try to force things and not just letting 'em happen (i.e. which makes things even worse). GerogeTheCrook says--That forcing things never seems to work for me (i.e. trying to put a square block in a round hole). Bobby Jones, the founder of The Masers and also one of my heroes (i.e. he rings my bell) set up the Masters to be class a.k.a. a standard of excellence. It is folks. Such is life.
FriendShannon frominnercityChicago wrote this in his City Cry newsletter--When Jesus Christ was walking on this earth as a man, He encountered so many people who had been given up on by the society around them. They all seemed to flock to Him - the lame, poor, widows, possessed, and sick. Their society had little time for them, so they flocked to the One who did. To put it plainly, Jesus cared. At the school where I volunteer as a tutor, across the street from our church, there are so many children who have fallen behind. There are hundreds of reasons why. It is hard for the teachers too because they are limited by different ways in how much they can help. Their time has only so many hours in the day and they have so many other students as well. This is where I can help out. Three days a week, I have the chance to go to the school and go from classroom to classroom to pull 2 to 4 kids out in the hall with me and help, rather that's in math, reading, or whatever. It's not much, but it's something, both for the students and the teachers.
Just let it happen, please! President Lincoln said--If the head of Lee's army is at Martinburg, and the tail of it on the Plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you (General Hooker) not break him?
TipfromRick--Sorry I don't remember the source for this saying, maybe a good thing because I may be misquoting. "maybe we should stop trying to live a life we just dream about and live the life we were meant to live." Maybe our purpose in life is right where we are.
Have a FUN day my friends unless you have other plans. (-:
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MyFriendJean says--Don't look back unless you plan to go that way.
TipfromKipspecializingingolfrelatedmentaldisorders--relax shlds, grip in fingers--chin up always
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