It is said—Words express our thoughts!
Excitement can be caused by us being anxious or by us being
enthusiastic. Probably in either case it causes our heart to beat faster.
Excitement probably can be caused by something joyful or by something uncertain.
Probably in both feelings, excitement makes us feel alive. It gets our
attention alright!
Fear causes
excitement in our mind I think. Sooo what are we fearful of in our lives. I
asked a few of you and it sure appears that many are fearful of failure and not
being in control (i.e. very open and honest response). Now that’s something to
be fearful about I guess. I have failures all the time and I’m surely not in
control of very much; It sounds like I have a lot to be fearful about! But I’m
not really very fearful; I’m really not ok, maybe sometimes I am! The old saying is--
“Public
speaking was just found to be the number one ranked fear for adults. Number
two…was death. DEATH came in at NUMBER TWO. That means if you’re at a funeral
most people would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy!!”
I have been told many times by many folks
who I have met here in Yakima who know Jeanne that I have hit the jackpot meeting Jeanne. I agree, I have! At our age to meet and share life together is complete
excitement for us. We are very grateful for this opportunity. We are very aware
of it, and we don’t take it lightly. It doesn’t take away anything of our past
but just gives us a new renewed life a.k.a. a new opportunity, excitement!
CoachB says that life is much better and enjoyable when we concentrate
on the smooth parts of life and not the rough parts of life. And we all
have/had/will have smooth parts and rough parts! Now that doesn’t take a rocket
scientist to figure that out. In fact, a friend tells me that every situation
might be 90 percent positive and 10 percent negative soooo we can decide what
we are going to spend our time thinking about. I guess he is saying that nuttin
in this world is 100 percent perfect. Saturday question—Does anyone enjoy being
around someone who is always complaining and bitching about something? Do those
folks really enjoy their life?
Another friend thinks that many folks have this type of fear
and he is probably right (i.e. very honest and open)—"I’m going to come at
the fear question from a small, everyday perspective. On a daily basis, the
fear of not looking good or feeling smart enough or not having something you
have (jealousy) motivates more people during the day than many other things. We
all want to fit in.” Now that can get many folks excited for sure! Another friend put it this way--"
I think people are primarily motivated by the fear of failure and/or embarrassment due to failure. Our society favors the successful and the fear of appearing anything other than drives people, even go so far as to live outside of their means to uphold an image."
I talked to a 21-year old young man in church recently who
is doing an intern as a mechanical engineer.
I asked him how it was going—good, I like it but I find myself not as
excited in doing physical activity on weekends that I normally was—how come—I’m
tired or I think I’m lazy; I would rather just sit on the couch—well, that’s
not good—I know, I am an adventurous person soooo it’s not my nature—soooo how
are you changing your attitude—I have scheduled physical activities for my
weekends that force me to get after it—wait until you get my age; then you
really have to force yourself to throw those chips away and get your butt off
the couch! We had a good laugh!
The preacher said something recently that really caught my
attention—He said that all of us will encounter God sometime in our life and we
have a choice to embrace Him with excitement or completely turn Him away and
become hardened. I talked to an old friend who I grew up with from the Roseland
area recently. He told me that he just can’t understand why folks don’t believe
in God; I just don’t get it; I just don’t understand it.
Miguel, a speedy delivery driver for Prime delivered a
package as I was outside the other day. I said—thanksamillion for the
delivery—you’re welcome—you excited about your job—oh yes, I am; I get paid $21
an hour and have 4-10 hour days—are you saving any money—oh ya, I’m living with
my mom and am saving soooo I can buy a trailer of my own—you seem to be a good
person—I try—well keep it up; I wish you the best—you too; thank you sir!
I have many friends who are really happy; they
seem to always be happy. Sorry to say, I know folks who always seem to be
unhappy (i.e. pretty bitter it seems). One of my friends told me flat out, I am
happy; I have been happy for decades! And I think he is and has been! He’s
always excited about life. Sooooo why the difference do you think?
A friend said another fear folks have is the fear that folks
will find out they are a fraud!
Ouchy
ouchy! My friend said many folks will go to great lengths to cover up being a
fraud. I guess that could really get some folks excited!
A friend of Jeanne who I have had the
opportunity to visit with a couple of times really appears to be the real deal.
Jeanne describes her as someone who lives her principals. Paul, not everyone
can be a Paul, said--“Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.” And
then he summarized that summary by saying, “Let all that you do be done with
love.” CoachB says—Learning does not happen until there is a change! Paul also
said--"Nothing in the spiritual life has value unless it is accompanied by
selfless, others-centered, God like love.” That gets me excited, yes it does.
I have to admit that I was excited and still am. Our
children, their spouses, and our grandkids are vacationing in the Great
Northwest and were with us for a couple of days. Wow! We really enjoyed them.
Great excitement!
There is a great line in the Walt Whitman poem “O Me! O Life!”: “The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? /Answer. /That you are here—that life exists and identity, / That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”
Moses answered them with this strong prediction of
God’s rescuing them from their enemies. His answer was simple: “Stand firm and
you will see...The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Now
that is exciting too! My opinion.
Have a FUN day my friends unless you have other plans. (-:
erv
MyDeceasedFriendJean said--People who do things that count never stop to count them.
