The greater the sacrifice, the greater the reward. This truism transcends all realms! Thank you Lord once again for… 🙏🏻

As I was walking back into the bedroom, trying to remember the writing that had come to mind but failed to write down, the word spoken on the television were those I was thinking at that very moment “I’m very tired” 😫 The movie was “Rhe Giant of Marathon” with Steve Reeves at 28 minutes in.

If we do not like the things coming out of our partner, we must consider that that every person who is surrounded by another person has things brought out of them which are likely To some degree impacted by the people were surrounded by. You see there are two aspects to most every person:

1. That which is in them;

2. Which parts are brought out of them by any particular individual surrounding them.

3. And then of course the wild card is the impact each of us has on morphing the individuals we surround.

Just because your dog doesn’t seem to be in any pain, just because they seem to be healthy doesn’t mean you don’t need to take them in for regular checkups just as you do with yourself. At least once a year. I know not everyone has the money to do this, but if that’s the case you shouldn’t own a dog. Our dog just lost a tooth the other day. Ana asked me if it was the whole tooth the only part of the tooth which got me to thinking… It only looks like the upper half of the tooth which means that the bottom half could still be embedded in the gum. See this was very ignorant, if not stupid on my part -not to think better. My reasoning at the time, “she doesn’t appear to be in any pain”. Apparently this was likely motivated by not wanting to take her to the vet. Or the difficult task of opening up her mouth and looking inside with her trying to bite me. This apparently is due to a lack of parenting experience or skills on my part. Being a parent requires doing hard things, and taking on the burden of expense as well. I’m not real happy with myself over this right now. You can’t claim to love someone, and neglect them, or act thoughtless at the same time!

Jonathan Smith “And I thought man was supposed to be mankind’s best friend”.

Thank you Lord for bringing this thought back to me which I had neglected to write down while brushing my teeth this morning. ” My entire life people have been the focus of my attention, my focus, my enslavement. Perhaps this will prove to be an asset regarding the work God has called upon me to do -perhaps with a little tweaking…

Perhaps the gap between being a self imposed slave and equality is not so why it’s not so wide after all. I have acted inferior to others all of my life -though I have acted tried to the contrary, though I have tried to believe otherwise..

Most of the time these writings roll out like a red carpet. But the microphone feature on this phone seems to get many words mixed up and does repeat as well. So if you see a bunch of writings on here that do not make any sense somewhere in them, It’s the microphone and technology which I failed to follow up on and correct. 😏🤔

Some people have that special something when it comes to relationship relationships with other people. Some people only appear to, or pretend to. 🤷‍♂️🤷🏿‍♀️

(supernatural) STRENGTH and (supernatural) GENTLENESS -never forget.

Some people care so much -it blinds them.

Some people care so little -it blinds them.

There’s a chemistry that exists between some men. Some people carry it to such a degree that everywhere they go… For whatever reason, everywhere I go, If I stay there long enough, the very opposite of chemistry emerges.

Sometimes we trust in God for his guidance, and he disappoints us so it seems. In many instances, it is HE trusting in us to make the (right) decision. 🤷🏿‍♀️🤷🏿‍♂️

How long are you gonna talk to someone who doesn’t listen to you anyways? That’s probably the case with God. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏿‍♀️🤷🏿‍♂️🤷‍♂️

There’s just something about a person who’s behavior behavior says “I don’t want you to like me” “you shouldn’t get too close to me”…

Things are done a certain way between men – I guess I just never figured out how. 🤷‍♂️ Which is why i’m lead to believe I’m not so intelligent after all.

We are no longer the primary target marketers or marketing -And someday you will be in that same boat. The 20 some things and the 30 some things come of the primary money earners are the ones that are being targeted. The hungry ones.

When we have nothing to offer, and we want the world around us, there’s nobody there. When we have something to offer, and we don’t want the world around us, they come around. THAT’S THE WORLD!*

*Everyone has something to offer, but the world isn’t interested in everything -and hence everyone!

You can’t watch a movie without seeing some hint of love interest or sex in it. I’ve watched some older movies recently and you see nothing in some of them with regard to a man and a woman showing an interest. It’s just straight up about the plot. I guess in order to gather people’s interest you have to have some kind of sexual… going on. I find it someone annoying myself. I feel like they’re treating me like some kind of a rat who needs a pill to perform. In this case needs a pill to gain my attention. I’m not that shallow.

Humor! Humor! Humor! The chick’s dig humor. But what if you’re not a humorous guy? Just like anything else in life, there is AA sheet that tells you how to operate when it comes to women. If you don’t follow it to reasonable degree Gray come you’re probably gonna fail. Unfortunately, in this regard human beings aren’t much different than working on an engine or baking a cake.. It would be nice if they were different but most of them aren’t. Which was why certain men resort to a method that is foreign to their innate being. Some would call this phony. Deceitful. But there’s another side to that coin. If some people weren’t so narrow, you wouldn’t have to resort to that.

Application, assimilation, processing of information is not the most important thing. the information you are particularly interested in is what’s most important.

Sometimes what you’re looking for is right in front of you, and sometimes what you’re looking for is out there somewhere. What does it take to recognize one or the other when your feelings, your gut is giving you the wrong message?

So often when things don’t go our way, we neglect to look at the things that are. God being the omnipresent, omnipotent Master overall that is, was, ever will be, benign in all things, ensures that THERE IS ALWAYS MORE GOOD THAN BAD SURROUNDING US IF ONLY WE WOULD ONLY OPEN OUR 💕 TO THEM!

ADDEND: And if we require people to get sick in order for us to make a living as well….. 🤷🏿‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏿‍♂️

Some men will ask a woman not caring how they feel or what their response is going to be. My problem is I do not have very good since when it comes to asking out asking out a woman and and having any idea whether she’s gonna say yes or no. A lot of women feel harassed by men in this sense. If I knew a woman was gonna say no I would never ask in the 1st place. But not all men or take this position.

Oh, one more thing, for you women who are disgusted with certain men’s approaches. If a certain percentage of women would not respond to these approaches in a positive way, they would probably die out. Think about it.

Women aren’t that different from men, I don’t even think they’re necessarily more selective or picky, they just feel they can afford to be more selective or picky.* YOU THINK THEIR NEEDS ARE UNEQUAL TO OURS?

*Sometimes it’s a good idea to be selective or picky and sometimes it is not. It’s all a matter of following God’s path in the end. If you’re being picky and it takes you off the path it’s not a good thing. If you’re being picky and it takes you on the path it’s a good thing. What’s the good path? Love, acceptance, embracing our own kind. Using a different set of eyes (a new pair of glasses -Chuck C.) to view others with -thinking of their welfare first rather than our own. That’s how one resuscitates a floundering 🌎 such as ours!

We can have all the fancy slogans, come-ons’, whitty advertising… in the 🌎!!!!!!!!! We can have all the “We care for you’s”… “We’re gonna make your life better’s”… But as long as this world, this society of ours continues to move further and further in the direction, towards the attitude that to love a person you don’t know, to love a person you don’t even like is ludicrous (my auto spell pulls up a wrapper “Ludacris”) instead of the true meaning (“ludicrous”), spelling – that’s how infiltrated all the nonsenses in this country have become,) THIS COUNTRY WILL CONTINUE ITS’ DECLINE! Those of you who are proponents of this world and its ways, go ahead and disagree, HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF 2000 YEARS LATER. Do you think our children are better off than they were before? Skyrocketing suicide and drug and alcohol use. Abortion rates because of irresponsibility. XX% of people don’t even get married anymore because they’re convinced it’s gonna end in divorce. The convince that marriage only creates a feeling of being boxed-in, and the urge to only want to untie the knot.

The United States used to be the leader in values, Christianity… Now, Now it is the leader in leading people away from them, from it! United States seems to be a proponent of the idea the idea that God and religion are something we decide on for ourselves as individuals. Well that’s one way to bring about unity!! Have a bunch of different ideas about God and religion and values!! And don’t even get me started on the materialism taking place in this sad country of ours. That’s right I said sad!There’s a group of people running around in this country today who think that the people oh who had this country up and running a 100 years ago are out of date or full of shit.

A lot of people cannot fathom caring, while making decisions that needle on that deep emotional caring. This is precisely the predicament God is in EVERY SINGLE MOMENT!

It’s only far fetched if it doesn’t happen!

Yeah, I also remember what it was like to be young. That was very stupid back then.Is it right for us to stand by and allow other people to make the same stupid mistakes calm hurting themselves and others?

In the presence of perfection, anything or anyone thathas a problem with it, must itself be the problem! God vs man for example.

How often do we perform, create something with the benefit of others in mind? Noooooo, not nearly often enough!

I had mentioned in the previous post that we human beings consciously or subconsciously consciously, set terms with regard to the things we endeavor, the people we encounter. I suppose it could be said the God set terms as well. His terms however, are with our welfare in mind, and to draw us in -and not keep us out. Humans are starkly different in this regard. DO NOT THROW AWAY A RELATIONSHIP WHERE SOMEONE IS GOOD TO YOU, JUST BECAUSE THEY HAPPEN TO BE DIFFERENT FROM YOU.

•Enjoy the good;

•Grow through the differences.

Things we do and do not do -impact our relationships.*

There are 3 aspects to a relationship:

1. The good people do for us;

2. The bad people do to us;

3. The differences between us.

I destroyed many relationships not because people were bad to me, but because they were different in they’re thinking from mine.

While I was out on my walk today, there’s a certain field out at the University, and every time I come across that I think of my grandmother for some reason. Today, with a tear in my eye I thought about the time some 45 years ago when I was out riding my skateboard and ran across my grandmother coming out of the Von’s supermarket. Many days after work, she would stop by there to pick up our groceries for that evening come and carry them in a brown paper sack a mile back to the house -no easy task mind you. On one occasion I ran into her coming out of the store, do you think I offered to help carry that bag? 😢 By reliving this memory in my mind, and doing things differently, there’s a freedom gained, and perhaps something lost in that process.* These are the sort of things 57 year old man thinks about whose life is riddled with mistakes -reflects upon.

Practice til you get it wrong -like placing a carpet in the hallway, walking over it a thousand times without tripping over it and then that fateful day comes when you finally succeed in tripping -or fail in succeeding to step over it!

*This came to me a few minutes ago just before I wrote the last 2 or 3 entries above. I couldn’t remember where went until I started writing the final entry above. I had asked God just moments before to help me to remember what it was about.. And as I began to write yeah right the final paragraph above, God answered my prayer and I was able to place it in its proper place. Thank you once again Lord 🙏🏻

When a culture largely has contempt for its own… Is it because of the individual or because of the people surrounding the individual that breeds contempt? I notice in our culture here where I live a lot of the people don’t like unlike their own kind. Assuming it’s the people surrounding the individual and their behavior, if we carry that over to a different culture, with the individual then feel the same way about the people in their culture surrounding them?

A person with an enormous capacity for love coupled with absence of the object of their love -only propels that love to a level some of us can only imagine.

As your sense of being victimized begins to slip away calm there’s a freedom that takes its place. I no longer see my early life is so horrible as I horrible as I once did. Maybe it’s healing. Maybe it’s perspective. Maybe it’s truth. Reality!