When we lose some, we always gain something-provided we’re:

1. Willing to accept what we have lost;

2. Willing to accept what we have gained.

Many, most, (if not) all (🤷🏻‍♂️) of the principles entwined/interlaced in these posts carry over to some, if not all other facets of reality (life in the case of we humans).

It’s better to risk injury or risk even to one’s own health than it is to be offensive in an attempt to avoid such dangers. If you insist on taking actions which otherwise detour you from being helpful to another in need -then do so tactfully, respectfully.

If you think about it 🤔 It’s got to be someone. Most of us are more or less relegated to 2 realities:

1. A need, a drive inside us to be with another human being (could be other things too 🤷🏻‍♂️);

2. The Choices available to us in the environment around us. In most cases, somebody’s gonna end up with somebody -rather than nobody.* (**)

*Do you know what it’s like to be alone -really alone? People who do -often have a very different mindset from people who don’t.

**Many women only think they’re making a choice when in reality most of them wait for the man to choose (to make their move) and then from from a number of those men they make a choice. Like it or not, based on the realities of life, we have limited choices (and in varying degrees). A woman; a modern day American woman in her prime (28), stuck on a deserted island with 5 male pigmies. 14,16, 70, 80, 90. Of the 2 younger ones, one is sterile the other impotent lol 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♂️ And of the 3 older one’s… 🤣 JUUUUUST KITTEN 😸

Yes! No! Maybe?

Yes! No! Later! (God’s 3 answers)*

When we have been judged severely by others for example, we only have 2 directions to go in in response. When for example, we grow up with 2 alcoholic parents, we only have 2 directions to go in in response (in the majority):

•You either become bitter and you respond in kind;

•The pain of the experience resonates so deeply -you become averse;

•Most of us will end up somewhere in the middle;

•In rare instances, the individual will not be swayed one way or the other 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♂️

Since ALL human-beings are imperfect, we will always have a blemish in some area of our being -of our character! Otherwise, we wouldn’t be imperfect creatures then would we?**

*If you’re tired of hearing “no” or “later”, try asking different questions. Try asking questions of a different…. “YES QUESTIONS”.

*I may have mentioned this previously -many human beings appear to have an affinity for at least one “vice” if you will. Something unhealthy which helps us to cope, take the edge off… Just about every human being invariably falls into this category I believe. Certainly in the high stress world of modern day America.

I don’t think we get sick so certain people can make a bunch of money and keep it all to themselves. God just doesn’t work that way.

•There are consequences for our actions and inactions. Always designed for our betterment.

•God does not make cures that make man sicker -so let’s get that 1 out of the way.

•God could make people lots of money for curing us provided that money is put to good use.

•Some die so that others may live; Some suffer so that others may be saved.

Anything outside of that probably isn’t God. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♂️

One thing most men have yet to figure out (accept) -Things happen so that other things don’t happen!

There’s a difference between being tight, and being poor -or is there? 🤷‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️

Good morning Lord; 😊 Thank you for Your Love, Your Goodness, Your Grace, and Your Mercy! For protecting me, for understanding me, for tolerating me, for understanding me, for being patient with me in spite of all my faults; 😊 Thank you for food, shelter, and clothing in an excess of what I need or deserve -for a warm bed, a comfortable bed to sleep in; 😊 Thank you for the sun coming up today, for my health, for another day sober, and for another day alive; 😊 Thank you for a vehicle that runs, that is paid for, that is better than I deserve; 😊 Thank you for the NA/AA programs, for the steps, the principles, the fellowship, and Your Grace; God-bless each and every person in-and-out of the program, and God-bless their families; God-bless the person coming in, God-bless the person going out -and God-bless those who will pass on today -Forgive O’ Lord, open up your ❤ and receive those souls this day – And God-bless all people’s around the 🌎 and their families -IN CHRIST JESUS NAME -AMEN 🙏🏻

Thank you Lord for something to dirty those dishes with (🙏🏻 for when I am not in the mood for doing the dishes)*.

*Everyone has a story: When I was living with my aunt and Uncle for my 9th grade year in school -My Uncle put me to doing dishes with his 2 girls, while his son, not much older than me, took out the trash. I felt… 🤷🏻‍♀️

LI’ve been in a million uncomfortable situations in my life. Well, maybe more like 10000 -you’d think you’d get used to them after a while -but then they wouldn’t be uncomfortable situations anymore would they* 🤷‍♂️

*May your oyster always have a grain of sand in it!

When something special takes root inside of us -and there’s no one there to meet us at the place where it takes us… 🤷‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️ THIS HAS TO CHANGE! Unless of course “The Almighty”…

Some people love the way the world works -some people hate it. What is it about the 🌎 -what is it about people that accounts for this discrepancy.

It’s the same thing now as it was then -do we teach people this stuff or is it just bred into us?

•People have to bring something to the table -or they’re worthless ->AKA “useless”. *

•The cave man who brings home the bigger kill -gets the woman of his choosing.*

The facade isn’t that some of us think we’re a family -even though we have no blood ties (Like Rocky and Adonis in the movie “CREED”); the facade is that millions of us are running around thinking we’re not a family because we don’t have blood ties. If God says we’re family -WE’RE A 👪 👩‍👧‍👧 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

The facade isn’t that some of us think we’re worth something -in spite of what others think of us, in spite of our own failings, our own shortcomings! The facade is that millions of us are running around thinking we’re worth something based upon what other people think, or what it is we bring to the table (therefore, based upon that logic -1/2 the people on this planet have no worth)! If God says we have worth irregardless -WE HAVE WORTH IRREGARDLESS

When we say something, it’s true or false; It’s accurate or inaccurate. When God says something; It either is that or it becomes that – That’s the difference between God and “dust”**!

*WHEN ARE WE GOING TO ASCEND FROM OUR PRIMORDIAL-ROOTS?

**That flickered back-and-forth from “dust” to “us” to “dust” -Let it be written! Let it be done!

Afterthought 🤔: I understand that we all need a reason for living, for doing, for being… But treating people as if they have no worth unless… is not really productive -spiritually [is it]? It definitely appears to be -materially.