It's a nice day! You guys are tremendous (i.e. except one of you, like I said, who is a real space cadet) but your attention span isn't very long. I realize that it takes something pretty exceptional to keep your attention for a very long period of time. I get bored easily and fast soooo I understand you guys quite well. Well, most of you anyway! ItchieBitchie says--Let's be honest, some of you are "lighting in a bottle!" Years ago a circuit preacher was riding his horse checking on his members and meets a farmer who had was hoeing his fields and greets him with “it’s a nice day”, the farmer responds with “that’s easy for you to say, all you have to do is think about God all day.” Preachers says “that’s not as easy as you think, as a matter of fact I’ll give you this horse if you only think about God for one full minute.” So the farmer bows his head and begins seriously thinking about God, after approximately 10 seconds looks up and says “would that include the saddle?”
Saturday question--Have you ever been lost in a "fool's paradise?" LuckieEddie says--Suck it up cupcake. Let's get going. We're burning day light! Or as super senor friend, June, said to me at church--"Ya just gotta do it" when I asked her how she was doing! John "Tremendous" Smith (i.e. anyone can be a John or a Smith but there aren't many John "Tremendous" Smiths around folks) says--Some folks have a "Messiah Conflict" that being they think they are the Messiah. Ouchy ouchy! I heard John say--In fact many prayers are "personal comfort and compensation prayers" which are ok but aren't big prayers (i.e. mostly about me myself and I).
A tremendous mom is a blessing! Deb says to her son--If you think it might be wrong, it probably is. Soooo. Deb, does your son listen to your advice? I have no idea. He doesn't have any response. Itchiebitchie says--Sooo folks, don't decarbonze your life in being fooled by the foolers; if it stinks a little on the top, you know very well that it will stink a whole lot more when you get to the bottom of the barrel. Abraham Lincoln said--"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." My Mom, Anna, would say--erv, always do what is right! I remember her words but always don't seem to do it. Such is life.
SusieQ asks--Do you want to be made well, healed in some way? Despite our claims to the contrary, if we are honest, we sometimes become comfortable with our various maladies. They can be convenient excuses for our behavior and crutches to give us reason not to seek something that, though better, might require more from us. The question always is--Do we really want to be made well? Do we really want to be tremendous?
LuckieEddie says--I'm not saying let's go kill all the stupid people. I'm just saying let's remove all the warning labels and let the problem work itself out.
It ain't nutten new folks! The English theologian William Perkins put it this way: “For look what a person loves most and cares most for and delights most in: that is his God.” Money. Status. Sex. Control. What we love and trust is what we actually worship, even if God’s name is on our lips. I saw a bumper sticker this week that read: Live simply so others can simply live. I think most of you folks do just that (i.e. except for that one)!
ItchieBitchie says--Don't complain that your ice cream is cold! CadillacJack says--Do you focus on the smallness of your closet and house, or do you see that you have so many clothes and stuff that you don't have room to store them?
They are a treat to be around. Some folks are sooo inspiring and uplifting to be around (i.e. give a person a tremendous feeling even though their hair is a mess). They just fill you with hope and just make a person feel "oh soooo goood." Then there are others who are drags, sorta kinda drag a person through the gutter. They are regular "kill buttons." Soooo why does a person want to be around the drags if they don't have toooo? In many cases folks decide not tooooo. Joesixpack says--I don't care to be around someone who irritates and frustrates me. Why do I want tooooo anyway? It could be a person's personality, their charisma, their body language, their past, their humbleness, their tone of voice etc. Usually if you feel this way about this certain person, others do to. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. And then there are Rookie and Jimmer who I just love even when they don't comb their hair--it's just a treat to be around them. Such is life.
To be tremendous! WorldClasLarry says--"I'll never forget the first time I discovered what a feeling was. It was in my early forties. "Surely not!" you may be thinking. Yes, it is true. Since then, I have discovered many men still live in this condition. It took an older mentor to help me understand the difference between information and a feeling. Wives are frustrated because their husbands share information, but not their feelings. They want to know what is going on inside their man. The fact is, most men have not been taught to identify feelings, much less how to share them. It is something that men must learn to do because it is not a natural trait. If they do share their feelings, society often portrays them as weak. No man willingly wants to be portrayed as weak. In order to become an effective friend and leader (i.e.be tremendous), one must learn to be vulnerable with others and develop an ability to share feelings. It is a vital step to becoming a real person with whom others can connect emotionally. This is not easy to do if your parents did not teach you to share your emotional life with others. Emotional vulnerability is especially hard for men." I had the opportunity to have breakfast with some buddies recently. They actually shared their emotions (i.e. they are tremendous guys and becoming more tremendous--real guys with good hearts). I really like these guys. Huh, interesting.
Have a FUN day my friends unless you have other plans. (-:
erv
MyFriendJean says--Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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