What makes you tick?

When I was eating my oatmeal with strawberries on it I read this—There is only one way to get full satisfaction from life and that is to live the way you believe God wants you to live. Live with God in that secret place of the spirit and you will have a feeling of being on the right road. You will have a deep sense of satisfaction. Saturday question—does that make you tick?

What makes him tick? I’m afraid that sometimes we as Americans act like a buck deer during rut (i.e. has his mind on one thing). He makes his mark and his brain is not in his head but…! What makes that buck tick? Well during rut it’s the does and during the rest of his life, it’s survival. He will do anything to survive (i.e. usually very savvy). We as Americans are becoming wantabes, hacks, and scrubs using any method (i.e. whateverittakes) to make some money and survive. How do you and I make our mark? GeorgeTheCrook says—Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

What makes you tick--A farmer had only one horse. One day, his horse ran away. All the neighbors came by saying, “I'm so sorry. This is such bad news. You must be so upset.” The man just said, “We'll see.” A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses. The man and his son corralled all 21 horses. All the neighbors came by saying, “Congratulations! This is such good news. You must be so happy!” The man just said, “We'll see.” One of the wild horses kicked the man's only son, breaking both his legs. All the neighbors came by saying, “I'm so sorry. This is such bad news. You must be so upset.” The man just said, “We'll see.” The country went to war, and every able-bodied young man was drafted to fight. The war was terrible and killed every young man, but the farmer's son was spared, since his broken legs prevented him from being drafted. All the neighbors came by saying, “Congratulations! This is such good news. You must be so happy!” The man just said, “We'll see.”

LuckieEddie says--Be careful what you say and do ‘cause it’s soooooooo easy to get misunderstood—just be generic, impersonal, non emotional, vanilla, non-transparent and invisible. And for God’s sake, keep your mouth shut! To those in North Dakota, Minnesota, and for that matter the rest of the country, including Canada, I must report the sad news that Ole was shot. He was up by the Canadian border on his 4-wheeler cutting some trees when some rangers looking for terrorists spotted him. According to the news reports, the rangers shouted to him over a loudspeaker, "Who are you and what are you doing?" Ole shouted back, "OLE...BIN LOGGIN'!" Ole is survived by his wife Lena and Lena's good friend Lars.

I was golfing with some guys the other day and riding along in a guy’s cart. He and I talked about where we went to church. He was telling me about a situation where he thinks a pastor lied to him twice (i.e. that is what he thinks and believes). He said we were out of there (i.e. that church). And the worse thing was his kids were around him when he lied—that’s really good to teach your kids—they can see it as well as I. Ouchy ouchy! Did that pastor lie? I don’t know but this gentleman thinks he did so that’s all that mattered to him. We live in America where you can go to any church you want. So what makes this pastor tick anyway do you think?

Does gossip make you tick? Joesixpack says--If your heart is right, your world will be right. The beginning of all reform must be in yourself. It’s not what happens to you, it’s how you take it…break the twin habits of negative thinking and critical speech. Some really important guy said this—Don’t pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults—unless, of course, you want the same treatment. Don’t condemn those who are down; that hardness can boomerang. Be easy on people; you’ll find life a lot easier. Can you guess who said that? Gossip hurt folks—I really don’t understand why folks just don’t step right in there and quench it (i.e. nip it in the bud). You guys are my friends—if I hear gossip about you, I would do just that (e.g. I hope if I would hear two people talking and accusing you or implying you are having an affair—I would step right in and ask, are you sure you have that right—do you know how damaging that can be to a person instead of not saying anything and then passing it on to the “supermothersofgossip”. MissPerfect says—Remember if you are around folks who gossip about others, they will gossip about you when you are not around tooooooo (i.e. it’s not if, it’s a slam dunk folks—they are the little folks of the world). Saturday question—Are you and I little folks or big folks of this world? You and I are the only ones that know for sure (i.e. we are the experts). Does gossip make you tick? Such is life.

ItchieBitchie says—Well, flip the pancake. Ya right, never be critical of anyone; always be forgiving. Sounds like America to me! Anything goes and is okay. You can have bad morals, ethics, do illegal stuff, have an affair, cheat, steal, be a really bad person and our society says—that’s okay; it’s part of being American (i.e. at least that’s the way it looks). We are becoming very generic, vanilla, weak spined, impersonal, and just plain don’t stand for anything anymore. We want to politically correct so we don’t loose our job, be neutral about everything so we don’t offend anyone as we don’t want to loose any customers. We are careful who we touch, who we talk to, who we are with, what a man says to a woman, careful how a man compliments a woman, what we say about our faith in God, what we say about a different religion, how we refer to another race and list goes on and on. We stand for nutten and care about nutten unless it affects our pocketbooks and then look out. If we continue, we will be another Roman Empire (i.e. where is the Roman Empire anyway) and I can’t see anything on the arisen that will turn this around (i.e. my opinion). All of government is the same. It’s just a big snowball going down the mountain gathering size and where it will stop, only God knows (i.e. maybe that’s a slang statement or it might be a literal statement). It will change folks. Yes it will. No question. But we might not like the change. The change always occurs when it can’t function anymore (i.e. usually decided by money). Money seems to always make us and everything else tick. Such is life.

I stopped for a snack before my bike ride the other day at a convenience store in Cedar Falls. They have a chalk board on the outside of their business and this is what they had written on it this week—A person is rich who they are, not what they have! Proverbs 13:7. Now I think that takes courage in our society today. Sooooooo not everyone is a wimp! I learned a huge massive lesson the other day from a friend. Yes I did. I learned how I don’t want to be. And sorry to say, I think I’m like him sometimes. I don’t think he realized he taught me this lesson.

What makes you tick? Maybe you guys think I’m all wet. Maybe you guys think I’m just crazy and am way out in left field (i.e. tooooooo idealistic). Maybe you say, just settle down erv, and play the game; do what you have to do to get along to live in this world, make the most of it; don’t get sooooo excited; learn the tricks; just go with the flow; become part of the masses; learn to become just like the majority; it will be all right (i.e. Chester and Anna probably said the same thing 60 years ago); relax, the government will take care of you (i.e. I was told by a friend that 40% of Americans are on some form of subsidy—don’t get soooooo excited about that, many of us are part of that 40% in some form). My opinion is that this spending just can’t continue (i.e. it just ain’t goin’ to work). Personally I don’t now anyone in America that goes to bed hungry. Do you? I know of no one who does not get medial care. Do you? It seems like a lot of people spend more time devising schemes and scams to make money than working. What in the world is going on here folks! Well flip the pancake. Arlene and I volunteered to help fill food bags (i.e. 1. Rice, the most widely accepted grain around the world. 2. Extruded soy nuggets, providing maximum protein at lowest cost. 3. Vitamins, minerals and a vegetarian chicken flavoring to give growing children the critical nutritional elements they need. 4. Dehydrated vegetables for flavor and nutrition) for Feed My Starving Children http://www.fmsc.org/ In their video, they said there were 18,000 kids who die of starvation in the world every day. Ouchy ouchy! Feed My Starving Children make up 128,000,000 meals a year (i.e. all by volunteers). Wow!

A couple of friends (i.e. one being my mentor ages 84 and 90) and I had breakfast Wednesday morning (i.e. it’s an honor to be around them). They both just returned from the Honor Flight (i.e. WWII Vets to Washington). They really enjoyed it with many different emotions (i.e. what makes them tick). They both said the biggest thing, which they saw and know, is—Freedom is not free! Their group had 29 vets and Ivan was the youngest at 84—now you know John is 90. They told me that a 1,000 WWII vets die daily. They said WWII was an experience but they both would not want to do it again. I asked them how the war experience changed them—both didn’t think it changed them (i.e. these are solid folks, the salt of the earth). I asked them if they thought folks would get in line to volunteer for the military like the folks did during the WWII time if something would happen today—no way! they said. I honor these guys (i.e. my heroes). Freedom is not free folks. WWII had about 400,000 American war deaths they told me. Wow. Soooooooo what makes America tick today?

Have a FUN day my friends unless you have other plans. (-:

erv

KR’s thought of the day—Evil thrives when good folks do nutten! My FreindJean says—The world would be far better if we let opportunity do all the knocking.