I accept

Suggestion—Before you read this It’s Saturday, you need to accept the terms and conditions! Ready? Don’t be angry at any person!  Start with the person that angers us the most. Give it up! ‘Cause that person controls us and ruins our life. Let it go! And we will have peace in our mind, soul and life. Everything will be better. There is only one person who can do that and that is us, me. Pretty simple and it costs us nuttin! AverageJoe says--I can master my mood, not theirs! They don’t even know they frustrate us in most cases. How crazy is that!

When I have something or somethings that bothers me, frustrate me, perplex me, confuse me, affect me, control me, disgust me, makes me wonder, gets under my skin, irritates me, I sit down in the quiet and write them down in detail and why they bother me. Most of the time they dissolve, or I find out they aren’t as bad as I thought or much easier to figure out and resolve than before. It really works for me. I guess it’s because I accept them.

It's hard to accept certain things, yes, it is. A friend suggested that a mutual acquaintance contact us about our advice about marriage as seniors. She did text us and asked if we would call her on her main cell phone and not the cell phone she just texted us on. She said the first cell phone is my burner phone that I uses to find my main cell phone!

I’m thinking that more folks in general are starting to mellow in their radicalness. I hear folks tempering their attitudes, I think. I think we as a human race are starting to accept the reality that if we don’t work together we are going to self-destruct as a country and as a world. The Bible tells us that there will be an end. ItchieBitchie says—We all know we are going to die on this earth! We all have expiration dates just like the milk in the refrigerator does. Da!

Oswald Chambers said, “God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.” I accept what Oswald said but SwervinErvin has trouble recognizing them and accepting them sometimes. I accept that non-believers think believers are weird but they really like how believers act! Yes, yes and yes!

Saturday question--What is the most important thing for humans to accept do you think?

GeorgeTheStingingCactus said to his wife: I accept you a.k.a. appreciate you! When we accept others, we tell them that we support them and our relationships appreciate in value. FlipThePancake, if we don’t accept others, relationships depreciate in value very fast, deteriorate, decompose, dissolve, disappear. My Daddy, Chester, told me never buy something that depreciates in value if you don’t have the cash (i.e. save the cash before buying it) but I could buy something that appreciates in value with credit. I accepted his teaching.

CoachB says--Keep calm and carry on! I agree Coach and I accept your advice but how do we keep calm and carry on is the 64,000 question. Paul tells us the answer but not all accept his advice. As a deceased friend, whose name was Paul also, would say to me—erv, decisions have consequences and guess who makes the decisions. TheTexanWithTheBigCowboyHat says--If you make wise decisions, compound interest is a blessing. If you make foolish decisions, compound interest is a curse.

Jeanne and I spent this week in San Angelo, TX working with a team of World Renew folks doing assessment for folks’ needs as result the terrible. disastrous flood they had last summer. These assessments will be used for the volunteer construction teams that will come later. Our team seems to think one of the biggest sources we can give them is Hope. Yes, the material fixing is very important too. They seem to accept both very much. We don’t know who is blessed the most, them or us. It is very humbling for us but feels oh soooo good! And we know, Life is like riding a bicycle -- if you stop peddling, you fall over. San Angelo was founded by sheep ranchers manly and it has sheep sculptures all over town. We saw one sign that really caught our attention. It read--In a world of sheep, be a goat! I accept that!

I’m erv and I accept this message!

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

erv

MyDeceasedFriendJean said—When you are in the dark, look for the stars.