Why do most people want more money than they need?

• The good life

• The easy life

• False security

• So they don’t have to rely on anything or anyone

All substandard reasons -which upset the gentle balance of God’s ongoing plan!

When we first meet people we don’t know anything about them, what they’ve been through… -Which is why generally speaking, honesty, sincerity, and thoughtfulness tend to be the best policy 98.6 % of the time.

One of the things we should all ask ourselves is this, is it good for us or bad for us? You see the confusion lies in this, Many of the things in life we enjoy or care about can have an adverse affect on us, making it difficult to discern whether or not to let go. Life is an ever changing thing, and the things we often hold dear to us can be an advantage at one point in time, and a hindrance at another. Can bring us up, then bring us down! 🤷‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

It’s when a person who has it all going for them, thinks nothing’s going right for them. It’s when someone who’s at the top of the world thinks they’re at the bottom of the world. My problem all of my life has been that I’ve had this complex it’s complex about being short-changed. The fact of the matter is this, I’ve had it better than most people, most if not all of my life.

The trend that you see is that people need or want more, and more, and more. Look at the movie “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” of the seventies, and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” of the tens. What’s the difference between the 2 movies? More, more, more. We just keep pumping people with more and more. Negating any kind of growth or change within.

Often times we say “actions speak louder than words”. Oftentimes, God chooses to act rather than to speak; and we still don’t get it, we still don’t appreciate it.

Jesus never worried about a thing because HIS devotion was to HIS Heavenly Father and HE knew that no matter what happened on this earthly realm, HE would rest in HIS Heavenly Father’s hands and nothing on this earthly realm could disrupt that. And nothing mattered besides that. And that’s the difference between HIS thinking and ours.

There’s often a sense of loss or injustice when we don’t get what we want [especially when we confuse it with a genuine need]. But evaluating things a little further… have any of your needs been disrupted in the process? Is their damage? Is their suffering beyond the denial itself? What we are looking for in instances such as this are whether we are in fact worse off or better off for having been denied? As the old saying goes “Be careful what you wish for, you may just get it”. Put in another light “Be grateful for what you didn’t get, you may be better off without it”.

It’s my personal experience that relationships, if done right, require considerable time and energy. Some have these in abundance to give while others do not. And in both cases people attempt a relationship with varied results.

Man, far too often goes by what he likes and dislikes, rather than what is and what isn’t.

Is there somethin’ wrong with me -pushin’ so many people away over the years? I could also ask the question -is there something wrong with those people who do not (when perhaps they should)?

A lot of people today can’t really see what they’re doing to our children because they are only once removed regarding their own choices -from the choices made by their parents regarding them. But someone like me or you, all you have to do is look at it from being removed twice or thrice (as opposed to once)… And you begin to see more clearly the degree of damage trending.

Most people are not like God in that “You’re loved and wanted regardless of who you are”.

Two kinds of people in the world:

1.The ones who take too much responsibility for the things happening around them;

2. The one’s who take too little.

…but to fail as a human-being…a humane-being…

One should be more at peace once they have withdrawn from their sinful existence; but instead, many end up depressed, missing it.

As Jesus tells it, when somebody harm’s you, feel worse for them for they have committed a grave act in the eyes of God, whereas you or I have merely been victimized. God finds no fault in that; except perhaps our reaction/response. Always remember; Just as God loathes a haughty attitude, He loves a humble one.

The more people that exist in the world, the more things we need to come up with: to keep ourselves busy; and to earn a living 🤷‍♂️🤷🏽‍♀️ The world is just becoming overrun with people’s “NEED TO”.

There are 3 kinds of people:

1. People who can’t make a relationship work and end up single

2. People who can’t make a relationship work (flourish) and don’t end up single

3. People who can make a relationship work.

One thing I haven’t figured out about God and this busines of staying married through thick and thin – If love is absent… what’s the point? And what message are you passing on to your kids? 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷‍♂️

I can absolutely relate to wandering around in the desert for 40 years -from the age of 16 to about 56 I’ve refused to learn from my mistakes or deviate from my patterns. Actually it’s been a lot longer than that, but 16 is the age where I figure I was old enough to start taking some responsibility for doing something about the early childhood damage I incured.*

There are 2 kinds of people:

1. The kind of person who has no concept of giving a person a break or a deal on something;

2. The kind of person who has no concept of appreciation after having been given a break or a deal on something.

THESE PEOPLE DO EXIST! 🤷🏾‍♂️

Parents, get it right -or your child just may end up suffering lifelong 💔 😢 damage resulting in limiting their potential, preventing their enjoying healthy relationships, obsessive behaviors, moral/ethical/legal issues, and quite possibly a host of addictions just to name a few!

*And at the age of 57, I’ve more or less retreated from life due in part to people out in the world not changing; and due in part to my struggles with my attitude towards people not changing. 🤷‍♂️

GENTLENESS Is a marvelous quality -I wish I had it.

For much of my life I would have preferred to be with the wrong woman than be alone -in a manner of speaking 🔊 that is. Now, I would prefer to be alone than be with a wrong woman.

For those of us who have endured one failed relationship after another, trust me it’s not so cut-and-dry for most 💑 couples out there either.

When we meet people whose mannerisms or energy touches us deeply inside,* what we realize and perhaps for the 1st time, is that what we’ve been missing for so long, that empty feeling inside, isn’t necessarily something lacking within us. That people play an extraordinarily large part in our feeling of wholeness, of completeness. That, maybe what is lacking in so many of the people we encounter is a vital necessity to our own being/our own lives! And you see, this is where alot of people, many in the fields of counseling and psychiatry GET IT ALL WRONG -many of which preach independence, self-reliance, self-servitude [I had to look up that word and it turns out it was precisely what what I was looking for even though I had only a partial understanding until I saw the definition of “servitude”; but I was thinking “self-servitude” (as opposed to “self-serving” though that in a way, in a pure sense, works too) prior to looking up the word -hmm, how interesting 🤔], acceptance of the unacceptable!

When you have a broken arm, when you are experiencing a heart attack, do you run to your neighbor to care for you? No, you go to the person best suited to care for you. With regard to our emotional and spiritual woes, why do we continually run to people -why not God who knows all, sees all, and can do all? All my life I’ve ran to people who could do nothing -or cared not. 😔

Most people either know nothing or care little for preventive maintenance – Many of us deal with our vehicles when something goes wrong, just as we do our own bodies.

*I’M SPEAKING OF HUMBLE, WARM-HEARTED PEOPLE OF WHICH IMHO WE COULD USE MORE OF IN THIS COUNTRY.