Jesus says that when we have an ungodly thought thought, suspicion of another human being human beings it’s because we ourselves…

Like smoking, we really don’t know how bad our character defects yeah character defects are affecting us until we’ve quit using them

There are 3 kinds of people coming to people that more or less like humanity calm with the people who don’t more or less like humanity, and the people who don’t more or less like humanity but conceal it.

If it is good it is God

If it is perfect it is God

If it is not perfect it isn’t God

If it is not good it isn’t God

Sometimes I find rocks shaped like countries and continents

It’s hard to catch a dishonest person when they expect it, but it’s fairly easy to catch them when they least expect it if you yourseld know when to expect it.

For some people the 2 go hand-in-hand, the can’t seem to have one without the other.

An Alcoholics Anonymous we have a saying, you can’t be too dumb but you can be too smart. I think that also holds true for our relationships.

In order for some people to survive a particular environment they must turn cold. It’s one thing if the individual is weak in that area it’s not area calm but it’s an entirely different matter when society itself is creating these environments We are forced to deal with. Environments that instead of breeding warmth and kindness break coldness and harshness.

If we don’t have God’s blessing then what joy can there be in it? What are the chances of its success?

It’s easy to develop animosity towards the world, unless you’re living a fairy tale life which most of us are not.

When you are eating unhealthy food come and you have had your fill, do not feel obligated to finish it all. Not as you might when eating a healthy meal.

Mankind may have a flawed nature, but giving up on it, or worse yet exploiting it -isn’t helping matters any!

In whatever endeavors you may embark upon you would do well to always think of your fellow human beings as fellow human beings.

It’s one thing to do what you need to do to get what you need to get. It’s another thing entirely to do what you need to do to get what you want to get!

People who have an extra special energy or aura to them are often viewed with skepticism or as audities.

Men often see good things in a bad way and bad things in a good way. Many people were infuriated at the many war criminals or criminals of nazi Germany who appeared to escape Justice. In the end did they? They’re short span of freedom could be viewed as God’s mercy. There’s a short span of freedom could be viewed as an opportunity by God to repent in his infinite love for each of us. Or it could simply be an example of his awe, and ever-reaching power!

There are people who work tirelessly, extraordinarily hard on a level I cannot even begin to comprehend, and for a good cause.

The people who truly act in God’s sted really are either deeply loved or despised. The ones who only pretend to come are they are either better despised or an eventual after-thought.

Man cannot seem to recognize [grasp], refuses to recognize that the deeper his suffering -the greater his merit! He only sees that has been, is… Only people with the greatest faith in the deepest understanding is standing have managed to accept this yeah deepest hours of despair. Challenging even to the apostles themselves.

If you can’t trust that which created the universe to guide you in your own life who can you trust? By whatever name you choose to call it! This thing which created the universe has clearly chosen to remain apart of it, guiding and maintaining it. And since we are a part of that creation, it’s only reasonable to assume that our own existence is being guided and maintained by it that is to the extent we allow it since we as humans also have a free will which can to a certain extent, thwart that guidance, that maintenance. If this force can control* the vast laws, the vast heavenly bodies of the universe, surely it has the power to intercede in all human affairs. When a planet come when a star dies, or or otherwise seemingly meets an untimely end, is it because this power failed in its efforts, or because this power willed it so? Thus nullifying the notion of an untimely end. I’m doing this is so, it only stands to reason that is very same pattern eminates outward, or inward to our own human existence.**

If it is good it is God!

If it is bad it is not God!

If it is in error it is not God!

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*Of non-human entities lacking in free-will.

** You take the best of all human traits in us human beings and multiply them times infinity and you have God! Is God aware? Are we?? Is God-loving in compassionate? Are we?

Watching the movie “The Angel of AUSCHWITZ” I was reminded of something many years ago

From the holocaust one might deduce that God:

•Abandoned the Jews

•Punished the jews

•Allowed mankind’s free-will as HE so often does

•From the 3rd one, God as HE so often does, takes satan’s attempts to defeat HIS plans and turns them into victory for HIMSELF and man by freeing/sparing numerous souls from eternal damnation through the death and suffering of millions of jews via expiation. I know 3 of those are right I’m not sure if all 4 of them are though. 3 of them came to me many years ago and then some time after that a 4th one -the idea of expiation. We’re talking 25 years ago or so. I do the best I can.

God may see fit to separate us from our human roots once and for all once we ascend to Heaven. Maybe once we are there this all goes away – It just seems to me that some of the experiences and the feet but feelings attached to them are so significant to us, so powerful, that It’s hard to imagine this being (entirely) the case. AGAIN, THANK YOU LORD 🙏🏻

Kill the things within you associated with your past that prevent you from reaching God’s ultimate plan for who HE wants you to be. Stop trying to kill those things within you associated with your past, however painful, reminiscent of God’s perfection!

Some people very early in life seem to figure things out, reach a place at an age decades ahead of the rest of us -fascinating. You can see it in a lot of songs written by people in their teens and in their twenties. I don’t know how they actually live their lives at this age but the words spoken in some of their songs are truly ahead of their time! Oh and one more thing, God doesn’t get nearly enough credit for HIS song writing!

Isn’t life enough of a struggle without us making it harder on each other? Or, If we stopped making life harder on one another (you understand the true breadth of the previous rhetorical question -if we removed every aspect of humanities humanity’s actions which caused another human being to struggle), would it even be a struggle?

Hundreds of years ago people were more difficult to identify, track down. The only way to alter this issue was to impose on people’s freedoms. Well it is true people could get away with things much more easily hundreds of years ago, there is a trend… What’s it gonna look like in 500 years from now?

To be sure I will repeat it once again. Just as the man shindler had saved so many Jews how many Jews, and henceforth saved saved many ensuing generations to follow…. So too did Alcoholics Anonymous, so too has Alcoholics Anonymous save not only the lives of many analogoholic, but the ensuing generations that would spawn from these lives. If 4 million lives were spared do it were spared due to the advent of Alcoholics Anonymous comment and 40 million over the last few decades have also been allowed to be born.

I feel my love for people, humanity, is very limited, restricted, stunted. 😔 I’m speaking from self-observation. Maybe I’m wrong, I dunno.

We can develop, we can approach people in 1 of 2 ways:

1) On the basis of who they are;

2) On the basis of who we are.

Additionally, we can view/approach people based on our own perceptions and feelings about those perceptions or on someone else’s. Jesus knows everything about each of us. And according to Him, HE chooses to love us. So we can choose to follow his lead, trusting that he knows everything about us and comes up with the right, best outlook. It is out outlook or evaluation:

•Based upon the same evidence we are viewing just interpreted differently?

•Based upon evidence above and beyond that which we are capable ourselves of seeing or recognizing more recognizing?

•Based upon who HE is more than who they are?

Many of we human beings do not seem to understand the sacrifice the suffering, the loss we experience as an intricate part of God’s ultimate plan [for us, for others]! I guess unless we could see the results of this suffering, pain, loss in the end result (one’s after-life) we could come to some kind of terms with this so-called “meaning of life”.

Everything we do, say, feel, or don’t from moment to moment can be displayed digitally with a value. What is your main score? Is it in the red or in the green?

I don’t have to is an arrogant excuse

I don’t want to is an… excuse

I don’t know how to is an ignorant excuse

I don’t need to is an… excuse

TBC

The most beautiful people in the world are not those with gifts given by God -but those with gifts given to God!

How is it that so many of us can come to understand and accept that the more we sacrifice for ourselves, the more we stand to gain down the road. Olympic athletes…Getting a college degree…. Raising children and putting off our careers… And yet when it comes to sacrificing for God, and gaining the ultimate reward down the road… Hey let’s face it, millions of people down here on Earth lack the faith, the hope, the discipline to sacrifice for themselves in the hopes of a better future – Let alone for God in some supposed -distant afterlife. 🤷‍♂️🤷🏿‍♀️

Is your fellow man working with you or against you these days? You see it comes in the goals. When things are bad men work together. When they’re good they snub their nose up at one another. Welcome to God’s world.

All the losses, all the conflicts -like an aged athlete, only later in life can we begin to feel the total effect of what we’ve been through. What we put ourselves through. And in this case, what we put others thru!

When I think about the happiest times in my life I think of Ana. I don’t think about trips to Europe, sailing on the high seas, climbing Everest together like others might perhaps. I think about our trips to the thrift stores. To the Great American Land and Cattle Company for a wonderful lunch and laughter. The $2 movie and popcorn with extra butter and Milk Duds. Hard time on the beach at Russian river back in 2015 -where the river met the ocean. A dream of mine for 40 some years and with a person I love more than any other in my life.

I won’t be accepting any more consolations!