I think at times JESUS was very strict or exaggerated in HIS teachings because HE knew that in certain instances, any opening would be exploited, viewed as loop-holes.

During the process of learning, exaggeration can be a very useful tool.

Some people believe they are saving up money when in reality they are paying off a debt; While others believe they are paying off a debt when in reality saving up money. The difference is an attitude of arrogance or false… versus an attitude of humility.

If I had a nickel for every time someone had made a move, that I had read wrong, and then acted rashly… as the same goes, “I’d be a millionaire”.

When one thinks in terms of what they do not have; quite commonly they think in the negative rather than in the positive – I don’t have a love life, I don’t have a nice car, I don’t have the job of my dreams, I don’t live in the town of my dreams, I don’t have enough money to buy that wonderful dress or suit, I don’t have enough money for the rent this month… Rather than thinking, I don’t have leprosy, I’m not missing an arm or a leg, I don’t have any major health issues, I don’t have all the tremendous bills that come with a lavish lifestyle, I don’t have to fuss with the relationship that comes with significant responsibilities and emotional ups and downs, I don’t have the absence of my 2 parents in my life the wife due to illness illness were an accident I don’t have the absence of my 2 parents in my life due to illness or an accident, I don’t have a family wrought with dysfunction and addiction where people are destroying themselves and one another… You See? 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏽‍♀️

JESUS and HIS mother had no tolerance for people who ran off at the mouth… Spouting gibberish and gossip.

I seem to recall many years earlier, a notion that GOD would not require me to suffer physically throughout my life -that the emotional suffering which has always been present throughout isn’t throughout, would be all asked of, imposed upon me. 🙃

I remember in my formative years looking looking at people. Seeing the reality of life unfold in or from them. Feeling contempt for them simply being who they are in the moment. At other times it was the notice of a wrinkle, a wart, unattractive feet, a smell unique to them which I found offensive. These were the things I had to contend with within myself for many years yesterday’s, things which kept me from approaching “that next level of intimacy”.

Relationships do in fact form in stages. Some people do very well in accommodating these stages while others do not. For me it has never been. Not surprisingl, given the continual disruptions of the stages of my childhood development and the relationships I was surrounded by.

Clark Gable in gone with a wind, Richard Gere in First Kight, These people have a way about them in their characters. They don’t take things too seriously. They seem to turn things around on a dime. Things most of us would be fearful of, they seem to put out of their minds rather quickly and effortlessly.

I had mentioned in a previous post that many women will prefer a man they have mundane feelings for it’s for over a man they have frightfully intense feelings for. This was just now confirmed in the movie “Passion’s Way” (2002), Starring Sela Ward and Timothy Dalton @ approximately 8 minutes in. 🤷‍♂️

Come up with 10 ideas, 100, 1000, and you’re bound to strike gold with one of them. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏽‍♀️

n the vast majority of cases, if we understood the reasons the reasons why people act the way they do, we would we would show more compassion and understanding towards them. Which, aside from love, is the the sensible yesterday reason for doing so with the people we encounter irregardless of our knowledge knowledge of their background because because the chances of them deserving compassion and understanding 👏 are in most people’s favor. As for those remaining few who are undeserving, chances are, treating them also with compassion and understanding will bode well in our favor.

When you get up to find your glasses because they’re nowhere in sight, only to find they were sitting somewhere next to you all along; just that little act alone can have a profound impact on avoiding an accident tomorrow or 10 years from now; or running into someone who at that very moment is in need; and so on and so forth. GOD KNOWS WHAT HE’S DOING. And since HE can see inside where we cannot, And since HE can see into the future where we cannot, it might be a good idea to trust HIM more often 🤷‍♂️

Originally, man could meet his GOD-determined needs with the resources surrounding him within a reasonable area. These days, man feels the need to ravage all parts of the globe in order to meet his self-determined needs. HOW VERY VERY INTERESTING!

Some people more than others, are seemingly capable of taking things to heart ❤ It’s a pretty wonderful ability. It’s difficult to grow through life without it. I’ve said it before, “we got it all down here on planet Earth among human beings”. We got the rich we got the poor; we got the slow and we got the fast; we got the givers and we got the takers; we got the ruthless and we got the compassionate; we got people with long memories and we got people with short memories; we got people who drink and do drugs and we got people who don’t drink and do drugs; we got people who believe in a higher power and we got people who don’t believe in a higher power; we got people who believe in abortion and we got people who don’t believe in abortion; we got people who believe in capital punishment and we got people who don’t believe in capital punish; we got people who believe in prayer in schools and we got people who don’t believe in prayer in schools; we got people who trust in the government and we got people who don’t trust in the government; we got people who believe the holocaust took place and we got people who don’t believe the holocaust took place; we got people who believe in Santa Claus and we got people who don’t believe in Santa Claus; we got people who believe in the hereafter and we got people who don’t believe in the hereafter; we got people who believe in bigfoot and aliens and we got people who don’t believe in bigfoot and aliens; -IS THERE ANYTHING WE AGREE UPON? I guess at the heart of it all, and more to the point is this ATTITUDE “I don’t have to believe what you believe so why should I”. I mean, evidence or no evidence, people seem to diverge in their beliefs and opinions. ISN’T THAT WONDERFUL?

JESUS appeared to show eventual frustration with people who time and time again refused to learn, to pay heed to the words of HIS HEAVENLY FATHER!

Charity comes in many forms.

Some people are inclined to find someone else to spend their lives with, when the one they presumably left before dies, doesn’t work out… Others not so. Some people feel the people they love her irreplaceable. Some people will argue in this post that they are not trying to replace the person they love -but aren’t they?

Why do we speak about people differently when they die? Especially those of us who caim all there is to life, all there is to the person is what you see, no soul, no afterlife… If that’s true then what you see laying on that slab is still there! 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️

“NOW” is finite while (milliseconds, minutes, hours)… from now, are infinite. But if they are inseparable, and therefore linked, then are they not both infinite?

In my experience, most things seem to come later rather than sooner -lessons?

I read somewhere years ago that we teach people how to treat us. I also read that life keeps bringing around the lessons we refuse to learn. I was also told if we do not meet our needs in a healthy way, we’ll meet them in an unhealthy way. But you could look at that from another perspective as well, if we don’t meet our needs in an unhealthy way, we’ll meet them in a healthy way.

Ensuing generations need to become less aware of certain things, and more aware of other things. This will promote greater health, better relationships, and a better world!

Giving stimulates one thing, receiving stimulates another. Or are they one in the same? Or is there over lap?

We have inside of us a specific mental and emotional mechanisms -spiritually based if you will; These mechanisms more or less monitor our attitudes and our behaviors. When these mechanisms are in place and operating properly, they distinguish our various behaviors and attitudes -tell us which ones are acceptable, and which ones require adjustment, change, or elimination altogether. When these mechanisms are not in place and operating properly, you have prolonged episodes where harmful, unacceptable behaviors and attitudes go unchecked, and therefore remain in place wreaking havoc on us and those around us

Look at every occurrence in your life, every choice you have made in your life as well, reflecting on your past, ask yourself if “You are worse off, or better off for it”. In addition, you may want to look at all your fretting, all your worrying, and ask yourself, “Was it all for not, or legitimate”.

90% of people are capable of performing performing physically, sexually -which is why, much to our own chagrin, and GOD’S, we are so successful at it. Where we are not nearly as successful, and much to our own chagrin, and GOD’S, is in the emotional, the spiritual, the mental parts of our being. Given the care we take of ourselves physically [not to harm], that is, not to undo what God has done, what GOD has provided, our bodies more or less function as they should. Apparently, in the case of many of us, our defiant wills, our parting of ways with GOD’S reasoning, does not affect so much our physical performance as it does our mental, emotional, spiritual performance. Most people for example, are capable of engaging in sex; Yet when it comes to the emotional, mental, spiritual aspects of their relationship, the success rate is markedly lower!

Both as organisms, and additionally, as human beings, we have needs as well as a need to…

Our human world is riddled with error. Some sad, some exploitable!

The healthier a person is the more inclined they are towards giving. Giving is both a natural and healthy disposition. People who feel empty, unmet in certain needs, have an inclination towards not giving, or taking.