When we point out only part of something however truthful it may be -it has a tendency to arouse ire! But no truth should ever be refuted however incomplete it may appear (or be -if there is such a thing).

Some men must reach “up” in order to grasp “X” -while others must reach down.

God isn’t some full-service gas station you know! I know people who… Christians too… I’m the #1 offender in that department!

If Ana can’t find it within herself to care about me the way I care about her, as much as I care about her… 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ This is one of those instances where the person who wins feels like they’re losing -and the person who’s losing feels like their winning (Ana would say of my family regarding their attitude, their treatment of me at times and how it affected me, “It’s their loss!”)? -sorta (I’m sure she thinks she’s making the right decision and maybe she is -we both discussed how we lost so much in all of this -and gained some valuable wisdom through it all). You can never lose by loving someone unconditionally (it’s the closest I believe I’ve come anyways). But you may suffer more!

Mind games -People do other things to take the edge off of their feelings besides drugs and alcohol.

People often downplay friendship in a relationship; or friendship outside of a relationship; when the basis of all relationships first and foremost -should be friendship. So if you end up with a friendship that that didn’t work out as a relationship…. reconsider before you throw it away! In my case, if I couldn’t have what I wanted, I walked away… If I couldn’t have what I wanted, I hurt them the way they hurt me regardless of whether or not it was intentional on their part. I lost a lot of potentially good friendships -because it was all or nothing to me.

I believe there is such a thing as being too good to people. Some people don’t deal with it too swell

I believe that some people are unwilling or unable to make their relationship the most important thing in their life-whether they admit to it or not. God’s way or… if you insist on having it your own way -make sure the other person is too; or you, them, both may be in for a world of hurt.

My pattern in relationships has always been that of a great devotion… I may not have a lot of money and so forth…. But what I have I’m willing to give of, and my time I’m willing to give of. The women I was mostly involved with refused to show me that same -devotion, consideration… Then I would get upset. I should add that in many cases I felt like a second thought. Ana was very different in that regard -atleast until her family came into the picture – I told her many times “You have to stand by the people who stand behind you -not the people who don’t stand behind you -just because they’re family. But it was to no avail -some people are just built that way I suppose. My mother who was adopted, longed for the parents she never knew. My brother Jamie who is adopted -could have cared less about the family he never knew (all he cared about were the people who stood behind him when he needed them most).

I know for a fact that I treat Ana better than her husband treats her -when I get frustrated -I probably treat her worse than he does too 😏. But she used to say quite often when I was very calm in our relationships -that I showed no emotion -and hence I didn’t care about her.l (boy did she open up a can of 🪱). I know now looking back 🤔 at many of the women that I was in relationships with -I treated them far better than their husband’s did -and they always went back.Think about it 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

I never understood how two people presumably -working for God, could be at odds with one another?

Most of us will not wish to spend less time in the world. In fact, many of us will come up with numerous excuses for the need to do otherwise. The time I spend out in the world does not make me a better person. I was never a better person for having spent too much time out in the world. The world however, is a good place to assist us in discovering our weaknesses (and our strengths).

God has grace to give us and therefore is a good idea to spend as much time with him as possible – The world does not have grace to give us and therefore it is not a good idea to spend ss much time with it as possible.

God gives -the world takes. God nourishes -the world depletes.

Receive from God and give freely to others what you have been given.

If only the world thought more in terms of giving rather than taking (taking vs receiving). If only the world thought more of receiving (from God) -and in turn giving (to others).*

It is better to become love than it is to be loved -It is more Blessed!

*”ONE CANNOT TRANSMIT WHAT ONE DOES NOT HAVE”.

“Why do you insist on asking for something from someone who does not have it -when you cannot even receive from someone who has it -but is unwilling to give it?”

In the final analysis, WE ARE THE ONES WHO SUBVERT GOD’S ORIGINAL DESIGN OF MAN, and thus WE determine, we are the purveyors of God’s likens, or satan’s like -loosed on the earth!

“What you bind on earth -shall be bound in Heaven. What you loose on earth -shall be loosed in Heaven!”

Some people learn from the inside out -some people from the outside in.

Jesus was, and always will be, the gold standard. We should:

•Seek to emulate His actions among the 🌎 ;

•Seek to provoke those very same attitudes and responses from the 🌎 He did;

•Seek to recreate those very same results in the 🌍 He did;

Not everyone who gets into a questionable situation has questionable motives.

There’s 2 ways to get under people’s skin:

•Be less than

•Be more than

We all have gifts and talents afforded to us by our Creator. What determines which people in a society are are most successful and least successful are the talents and gifts determined by that society to have the highest and lowest values. For example in America, entertainment, engineering, medical are all considered among the top… whereas janitor, laborer, fast-food… are among the lowest…

To make money you have to go where the money is.

Where there is a large number of people there tends to be little money. Where there is an elite number of people there tends to be a lot of money.