Parts of this “It’s Saturday” might be anecdotal or it might be completely factual. For sure opinions are anecdotal as there is no proof toooo them, they have never been tested to make them fact. A friend who is a retired small animal veterinarian used the word, anecdotal in our conversation. I like that word. He said there are some practices in veterinarian medicine that are anecdotal but used as it is the last resort that might work and maybe not (i.e. but they give hope) and there are some practices that are proved through the years (e.g. using 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar and honey produced within 50 miles of your home helped with arthritis in pets! Seemed to help in some pets! —- Stem cells obtained from your pets own fat relieves arthritis).
Sooooo are you blessed?
I have heard some folks say recently that they have really been blessed with "all the stuff they have." That is
confusing to me. I understand that blessings
come from God (i.e. all blessings come from God; humans can’t bless others
although some think they can maybe) and the biggest blessing is that God gives
us is grace that through Jesus we can all be saved. It’s not by how much material stuff we have,
is it? But that is my opinion. Sooooo if we don’t have as much stuff as
others or our life isn’t as worldly perfect as others (i.e. as described by
what folks put on Facebook and Tic Tok), does that mean that folks think God
hasn’t blessed some as much? I don’t
think soooo folks but maybe!. Maybe social media tries to tell us differently but maybe it's an
illusion. What do you think? Maybe some folks live by the old saying —The folks
with the most toys win!
This is from a friend who I respect a lot—"Interesting
that we feel blessed when we didn’t have money given to us. The lessons it
taught us are probably the most valuable. Such as how to manage whatever money
we have. Yet many that never had money, never learned how to manage it. There
must be another related gift, experience or lesson that we learned along the
way that we received. I doubt I will ever fully understand how the events of
our lives shape us.” That is the kind of
person he is, a good one for sure!
MoneyBagWillard says—Money money, I have a lot of it. Oh ya.
Now that my parents died. They
bought 160 acres of good Butler County farmland for $750 an acre and worked
very hard to pay for it and then bought the neighbor’s farm of 160 acres for
$2,000 an acre (i.e. in both cases they said they paid way tooooo much for the
land). Well, they died, and my sister and I just sold the land for $20,000 an
acre. We are multimillionaires and we
didn’t do anything but were just part of the right family. Pretty smart weren't we! haha CadillacJack
says—That doesn’t seem fair! The only
thing that’s fair is the Butler County Fair and that is in June! Such is life.
The other night I was going south down the I-35 and thought
I would try this shortcut on a county road that I have never been on before
soooo I took a left to go east. I went a
little ways and was in this little town that I heard of but never been there
before. I was confused. My car compass said I was going south and so did my car's navigational system. What! How can that be. In a short
distance I was back at I-35. I
completely lost my bearings and my direction a.k.a. discombobulated. I wasn’t
lost but just didn’t know where I was! I turned on I-35 and I had it all back. Well, I-35 took a jag and when I turned on
the county road it caused me to go south.
What a hoot! Soooo I wonder if I do the same in my life, like lose my
bearings and direction and am way out of whack, and then I need to look at the
map to figure it all out again. I think soooo!
Coach Wooden put it well: “When I was teaching basketball, I
urged my players to try their hardest to improve on that very day, to make that
practice a masterpiece… Too often we get distracted by what is outside our
control. You can’t do anything about yesterday. The door to the past has been
shut and the key thrown away. You can do nothing about tomorrow. It is yet to
come. However, tomorrow is in large part determined by what you do today. So
make today a masterpiece. You have control over that." Soooo folks, throw
those chips away and get your butt off the couch!
A 93-year old lady told me recently that life is confusing
to her—soooo what do you mean by that—I have no idea what is all going to
happen in the near future—soooo what do you think will happen—I think it will
just continue to get worse and worse until something happens—soooo what do you
think will happen—I’m a believer soooo you can probably guess what I think erv;
it’s Biblical. Soooo those of you who don’t believe in an omniscient, omnipotent,
omnipresent and omnibenevolent God, what do you think will happen? You have to have an opinion. What is it?
Maybe you think dinosaurs will return and eat us all up!
I talked to my neighbor girl who was at her parents’ place across the street. I saw her grow up as a little kid and know is six years out of college, married and has a year-old child. She is a digital adverting expert for a technology company for those six years. She told me that the cutting edge in digital advertising is Tik Tok. Companies are monetizing Tik Tok. Tik Tok is short videos of maybe 15 seconds about almost everything which are short and quick with very few still pictures. They are very popular with age groups from 10 to 30, not as popular in the age group from 30 to 50 and after 50 not very popular at all (i.e. confusing to old folks). Google says they are outlawed in India and Russia and a very scaled down version in China. It says it is for national security reasons. BUT it is very popular in America and other parts of the world (i.e. a new way to make money). Soooooo I was talking to friends, who are about 80, who live in small town rural America. They were telling me that their church is in a small rural town (i.e. population 219 in the middle of nowhere) is doing well with about 130 attenders each Sunday and growing—how come you are doing soooo well—maybe ‘cause we have a talented pastor who teaches the Bible, have a strong worship leader and a strong music director. We have modernized some—what do you mean—we did stuff to make it more friendly to younger couples like changing the name of our church to a generic name, eliminated the domination name; we think we have a strong, good product that is attractive. SusieQ says--It sounds soooo easy but it ain't (i.e. it's a shot in the dark)! My friends had to get off the phone as they were entertaining two new young couples and a senior lady from their church for dinner who just arrived! Ding dong! Anyone home?
It makes me feel better that Nicodemus was even confused.
Ben, anyone can be a Ben, says—"He had arrived. He was highly educated,
wealthy, and had social and political influence. According to his peers, his
community, and himself, Nicodemus was as near perfection as a person could be.
So why was he here, in the middle of the night, looking for answers?” Maybe he was confused folks. Maybe he was searching
for the real thing and not some anecdotal thinking.
Have a FUN day my friends unless you have other plans. (-:
erv
MyFriendJean said—There are no gains without pains.
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