Sometimes it’s best not to have an opinion at all – Makes things a whole lot easier you know.

Ya’ know 🤔 even if we had all the resources in the world -an endless supply-which we don’t, a healthy, sound minded individual would take only as they need -which we haven’t! Many of we adults have acted just like kids in a candy store 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️ -and we expect our children to act otherwise? 🎬 😏

We’ve got to be at least 2 to 300 years ahead of the time-line by now -in terms of resources and waste.That’s just how careless and fancy free we’ve been.

I noticed that when I ask for example my antenuncle how they like… -my Uncle becomes very tart. Having observed this reaction hundreds of times I’m I know that he thinks I’m digging for some kind of a Pat on the back -which people who don’t like people tend to hate giving. Is there such a thing as following up on a gift to see if people are enjoying it? Or is this taboo? It certainly seems to be in my family?*

Life is everywhere -so much so that in certain instances scientists have to take very special precautions to precautions to ensure that life does not contaminate.

* I remember visiting my grandparents in Petaluma one year, And my sister Debbie and myself got invited to the neighbors across the street for dinner. Middle class white folk -what are difference from my dad and my aunt and Uncle and their family. Once I spent time with my grandma and grandpa heard yesterday -living elsewhere was nothing but down hill. Attitude wise, food wise, environment and house wise, intellectual wise… 🏠 Especially with regard to being around my father and around his sister and her family. It was definitely a drop in quality in terms of the way you were treated.

Oftentimes we must go through people who can be quite ugly in order to reach the people who are willing to be reached (and that who those initially unwilling).

With regard to evangelizing I don’t look at it as pushing God on people -I look at it as giving a message to people who in many instances never new a yearning for truth ever existed within them.* I wouldn’t feel comfortable going around manipulating lady or forcing things on people. There’s another way of looking at it -I’m not forcing my beliefs on other people -I’m conveying a message of truth. And I also believe a certain percentage of people are open to, and yearn for the truth. And they also know it when they hear it.

From what I’ve read and heard, my summation is this: You can’t earn your way into Heaven; but you can most certainly earn your way out out of it!

*Pushing things on people isn’t my thing -I refuse to do it in fact! This may only earn me half of my points in heaven but

When we point out only part of something however truthful it may be -it has a tendency to arouse ire! But no truth should ever be refuted however incomplete it may appear (or be -if there is such a thing).

Some men must reach “up” in order to grasp “X” -while others must reach down.

God isn’t some full-service gas station you know! I know people who… Christians too… I’m the #1 offender in that department!

If Ana can’t find it within herself to care about me the way I care about her, as much as I care about her… 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ This is one of those instances where the person who wins feels like they’re losing -and the person who’s losing feels like their winning (Ana would say of my family regarding their attitude, their treatment of me at times and how it affected me, “It’s their loss!”)? -sorta (I’m sure she thinks she’s making the right decision and maybe she is -we both discussed how we lost so much in all of this -and gained some valuable wisdom through it all). You can never lose by loving someone unconditionally (it’s the closest I believe I’ve come anyways). But you may suffer more!

Mind games -People do other things to take the edge off of their feelings besides drugs and alcohol.

People often downplay friendship in a relationship; or friendship outside of a relationship; when the basis of all relationships first and foremost -should be friendship. So if you end up with a friendship that that didn’t work out as a relationship…. reconsider before you throw it away! In my case, if I couldn’t have what I wanted, I walked away… If I couldn’t have what I wanted, I hurt them the way they hurt me regardless of whether or not it was intentional on their part. I lost a lot of potentially good friendships -because it was all or nothing to me.

I believe there is such a thing as being too good to people. Some people don’t deal with it too swell

I believe that some people are unwilling or unable to make their relationship the most important thing in their life-whether they admit to it or not. God’s way or… if you insist on having it your own way -make sure the other person is too; or you, them, both may be in for a world of hurt.

My pattern in relationships has always been that of a great devotion… I may not have a lot of money and so forth…. But what I have I’m willing to give of, and my time I’m willing to give of. The women I was mostly involved with refused to show me that same -devotion, consideration… Then I would get upset. I should add that in many cases I felt like a second thought. Ana was very different in that regard -atleast until her family came into the picture – I told her many times “You have to stand by the people who stand behind you -not the people who don’t stand behind you -just because they’re family. But it was to no avail -some people are just built that way I suppose. My mother who was adopted, longed for the parents she never knew. My brother Jamie who is adopted -could have cared less about the family he never knew (all he cared about were the people who stood behind him when he needed them most).

I know for a fact that I treat Ana better than her husband treats her -when I get frustrated -I probably treat her worse than he does too 😏. But she used to say quite often when I was very calm in our relationships -that I showed no emotion -and hence I didn’t care about her.l (boy did she open up a can of 🪱). I know now looking back 🤔 at many of the women that I was in relationships with -I treated them far better than their husband’s did -and they always went back.Think about it 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

I never understood how two people presumably -working for God, could be at odds with one another?

Most of us will not wish to spend less time in the world. In fact, many of us will come up with numerous excuses for the need to do otherwise. The time I spend out in the world does not make me a better person. I was never a better person for having spent too much time out in the world. The world however, is a good place to assist us in discovering our weaknesses (and our strengths).

God has grace to give us and therefore is a good idea to spend as much time with him as possible – The world does not have grace to give us and therefore it is not a good idea to spend ss much time with it as possible.

God gives -the world takes. God nourishes -the world depletes.

Receive from God and give freely to others what you have been given.

If only the world thought more in terms of giving rather than taking (taking vs receiving). If only the world thought more of receiving (from God) -and in turn giving (to others).*

It is better to become love than it is to be loved -It is more Blessed!

*”ONE CANNOT TRANSMIT WHAT ONE DOES NOT HAVE”.

“Why do you insist on asking for something from someone who does not have it -when you cannot even receive from someone who has it -but is unwilling to give it?”