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Psst! We are juried by others on a per minute basis, maybe. JoeBlow says--Someone or some group of folks are always jurying us! Don ‘t kid yourself. It might be Amason and you don’t even know it!

What helps is when we can hold our ground? Any builder will say, it’s the foundation; we gotta have a good foundation.  And how do we get a good foundation and what is a good foundation? How do we know what is right or wrong? It appears to me that we gotta hang around with good folks (i.e. if we don’t we are shoeless and clueless); just look around folks; it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out. AverageJoe says—erv, that’s the plan! You can bet your life on this tip from Tony Dungy, even take it to the bank, but not everybody can be a Tony Dungy—“Be open in receiving counsel. Surround yourself with the best people you can find and give them absolute freedom to disagree with and challenge you. Enjoy the benefit of other peoples’ gifts, skills, and insights. Seek their input, listen to them, decide on the right direction and go forward with confidence.” SimpleSimon says—Yabut we gotta be aggressive in our life but we also need to be careful where we are going to be aggressive (i.e. pick our spots)!

I like to pick your brain! The MI-Wizard, who really knows how to mash the potatoes let me tell ya, says—I like good free advice based on good knowledge from good folks and it’s even better if they do the work for me (i.e. build or help me build my foundation)! Once we have a good foundation, we can hold our ground!  Don’t kid yourself! Confidence is really important! Don’t kid yourself! That is why he is called the MI-Wizard!

I know a guy who disagrees with me. He doesn’t believe there is a God; no God! I believe there is a God. We both have the right and choice to believe what we want now don’t we (i.e. this has been heavily debated for ever). LuckieEddie, who attracts eyeballs, says—I don’t believe everything that my mother-in-law does soooo there! It appears that we both think we are right. Sooooo how will we ever know if there is a God?  I guess we will be juried sometime or maybe there won’t be a jury, but we will never know on this earth now will we. What do you think? That is what I thought. BUT once we die, if there is a God and didn’t think soooo on this earth, ouchy ouchy! I don’t think we can hire the most expensive attorney to get us out of that mess! It won’t make any difference how much money we have or how important we think we are (i.e. that is what is how my mind thinks anyway)!

Maybe the most severe jury of a teen-age girl is her peer group, they are ruthless and mean the way it looks to me (i.e. maybe sometimes those teen-age girls never grow up). Another ruthless jury we have in our lives is ourselves. We jury ourselves all the time. Suggestion: Look at the good stuff in our lives and also in the good we do. There is good stuff in all of us; yes there is.  It is soooo easy to dwell on the bad things. ItchieBitchie, who has a little bit of radical but not toooo much, says—It’s how we look at it! Thepersondownthestreet who is an oldie but a goodie, says—One bad thought takes 10 good thoughts to overcome the bad thought.  You believe that! Encouragement is very useful! CrazyMarvin says—The jury is out on one of you (i.e. you know who you are) if you are a person who builds others up or tears others down! Are you the problem or the solution to the problem. Ouchy ouchy!

I was in Waukee this week to see Charlie sing in her 8th grade choir at her school. Then I went back another night to see Rookie play in his 5th grade school band and sing in the 5th grade choir. These young folks really amaze me. Charlie said--This is my first time wearing heels and it might be my last! As we got out of the booth at the restaurant and walking to the vehicle, Rookie said to Chet--Grandpa isn't very fast (i.e. he was jurying me I think! Hey listen, I'm stiff when I get up and my knees crack!

Do we look for good in ourselves and others or look for bad. Suggestion: Look for good! Are we a vulture or a hummingbird? Do we look for dead stuff or sweet stuff? I think it is right in that if we look for rotten dead stuff, we will find it and if we look for sweet nectar we will find it. It’s sorta kinda what we are looking for maybe! Sooooo then, it is our attitude maybe! We need to jury ourselves maybe! Saturday question--Do we have a person that just drives us nuts? Why do they drive us nuts? It has to ‘cause we think they are full of rotten dead stuff or we are full of rotten dead stuff!

I get to decide!  Maybe only 1% of what I read, hear or see, I use in “It’s Saturday.” The other 99% I don’t write about. I pick the cream and that is purely a feeling (i.e. very speculative).  Isn’t that like all of us, we pick out only a small amount of stuff that we see, hear, or read and apply it to our lives (i.e. purely speculative selection). We deicide.  I did read this that I selected—Wise people treasure knowledge, but the babbling of a fool invites disaster. Proverbs 10:14. BUT we get to decide what knowledge is! Now that is challenging! AverageJoe says--I seem to be soooo lucky in that I seem to pick the good stuff but my sister-in-law, CarzyBetty, seems to always pick the bad stuff. Go figure! When coming back from AZ I had the opportunity to watch our granddaughter, Erin, perform with her hs color guard team at the state level at Denver U. They just amazed me with their talent and hard work. ANYWAY, we sat behind the three judges who juried the different schools (i.e. somewhat subjective I thought maybe) who decided which ones were the best (i.e. sorta kinda like which calf gets the purple ribbon at the Butler County 4-H fair or who gets juried as the Butler County queen—all judges like different things maybe). Huh, interesting!

WorldClassLarry says--You are juried and the verdict is in! You can change. None of us is the same person we were a year or a decade ago. Our bodies are changing—there’s no denying that. But our minds, hearts, habits, personalities, and relationships are changing too. We just need to make sure we are changing for the better, that we’re being transformed. We recently have seen two gals that have really changed; they changed because guys have come into their lives, and they now have some hope of a different life; boy are they excited. Oh, the change that can happen with hope! I have no idea if a serious relationship will occur but oh, do they have some excitement in their lives let me tell ya. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great and no tonic soooo powerful as the expectation of something better tomorrow!

The other Warren from Omaha sent me this story--True Story ---- about 100  senior citizens gathered in my church last week to enjoy a nice lunch and listen to a guest speaker on the subject of Alzheimer's Disease.   The speaker never showed --- she forgot.

We make a lot of decisions in our lives, a lot. We make most of those decisions for ourselves. Yes, we do. And as my deceased friend told me—erv, decisions have consequences! I read what Billy Graham wrote and I like it--When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God. Saturday question—How do we come to the end of ourselves? Oh, how hot are we about what we are really hot about? Really!  We might say, I’m not hot about anything that I know about. Suggestion to you then—Be good to people; be hot! We will feel soooo good and soooo will the folks we are hot toooo (i.e. you can bet your boots on that). And how hot should we be? The sky is the limit. BUT you get to decide! Such is life.

I read while eating my oatmeal with half a banana on it--Humility is a choice. Not once in the Bible are we told to pray for God to humble us. Instead, we are told to “humble ourselves before the Lord” (James 4:10 ICB). It’s a choice. Humility is something we do to yourself. Nobody else can do it to us. Other people can humiliate us, but they can’t make us humble. In essence, humility is total dependence on God. It’s not denying our strengths; instead, it’s being honest about our weaknesses. TheLadyDownTheStreet says--Attitudes do not just happen; we choose them--Become so confident in who you are that no one's behavior, opinion, or rejection can affect us. Sooooo as a friend says to me—Soooo buck up erv, you can do it! I think she is jurying me!

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

erv

MyFriendJean said—The great reward of doing is the opportunity to do more.