If a simplistic piece of plastic with a few wires and diodes, made specifically 4 or matched 2…. can remotely control…. Then what can the human brain, the most complex thing in the universe, also made… for anything and everything in the known universe 🤔 mind you – what can it control -and remotely?

To me, stuff is everywhere -just floating n g above! Just their to be snatched out of… “thin-air”?* 🤷‍♂️

*While at 1st glance, the title of this post may seem a bit odd -I can say with absolute certainty that this website would not be possible were it not an absolute “Labor-of-Love”!

•Title taken from/and credited to: “Making Love Out of Nothing at All“, a power ballad written and composed by Jim Steinman and first released by Australian soft rock band Air Supply for their 1983 compilation album Greatest Hits. It reached number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks (behind “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler, giving Steinman a consecutive peak of two songs). The song has been covered by other artists. [Source:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Love_Out_of_Nothing_at_All].

Do you know what the differences between a good person and a nice person? A nice person is nice to you as long as you’re nice to them. A good person will more than likely be good to you even if you’re not.

You know there’s really good people out there in the world! The kind of people that just make you glad to be a part of this world. They can even make your heart melt!

I see the Deputy from the movie “Walking Tall ll”, Obra, riding in Bufords rigged car -the innocents in his face as he’s doing Buford the favor of taking his car back to the lot just before going off the rode and dying! The man had such purity-of-heart! Breaks mine! 😔

The same people I ran into trouble with as a child are the same people walking around in the world today.

They told me that once I became an adult I would not have to yield any longer as I did as a child! As long as people have power over you come as long as you think people have power over you.. you’re basically in the same boat as an adult as you were as a child. 🤷‍♂️ Some people manage to grow up and break free from that feeling real or imagined you’re imagined of being powerless.*

*You can condition an elephant to think it’s a mouse

I remember when I first learned to drive (I had just gotten back from NM ’79’), it was like writing one of the rides at the amusement park. Patsy was showing me how to drive stick in her fiat. When I went to go take my driving test, I did so in dad’s Granada -he was so proud of that car! A ’76’ I believe it was.

When I was younger, everything had to be perfect in (in my own mind anyways) order for me to be right mentally and emotionally. These days life seems anything but. All I know to do is keep moving forward with these writings for as long as I can go.

Sidenote: When I came in to Alcoholics Anonymous I was so convinced that alcohol and drugs were the problems not me… after all, isn’t that the mountain idea -complete the attacomplete the test from reality? By being as perfect as I could possibly be; I was gonna prove to everyone that it was the booze and the drugs and not me that was at fault. It’s a dangerous game, this game of perfection in recovery… “That which doesn’t bend breaks!”

When I came in to Alcoholics Anonymous they told me I was the problem… I thought, “I’d been hearin’ that all my life!” But the difference was that in Alcoholics Anonymous they were saying so out of love, not ego, or hatred, or fear!

One of the things I love about alcohol tynamis is that it talks about how each individual is responsible for their own recovery and their own mistakes. That’s not what I heard out in the real world -what I heard was a whole lot of blame! And a whole lot of criticism! The other thing was that you can’t be thrown out of Alcoholics Anonymous. I only know of 2 places in the whole wide world you can’t be thrown out of:

1.Prison

2. AA 😁

You and your dog, it should be a partnership.*

*Another one I forgot earlier -and God was kind enough to remind me several hours later. Thank You Lord 🙏

I’ve been concerned about recalling so many of these writings -many of which have been written numerous times and then misplaced. But, God knew the time was right to proceed with this website and -He has kept up His end with no shortage of material pouring forth steadily these past 34 days. Again, Thank You Kindly Lord! Amen 🙏

If Jesus couldn’t succeed and He did everything right -then what are we who are flawed to expect? That’s the thing about man -he doesn’t care about what’s right, he cares about what “suits” him.*

*I knew there was something I had forgotten this morning on the walk with Daisy. So, like I normally do, I asked God to remind me please. It took about 10 hours -but as usual He came through! Thank You Lord 🙏

Like any other war the war against evil will have casualties. The problem is nobody wants to die or suffer! If Americans had that attitude in World War II….. The war would have probably been lost! Just like the war against evil is being lost right now. If we stand up against the evil in the world… sure, the attention will be placed on those standing up to it -but there is no other way! But don’t think your sacrifice is in vain. Anyone who stands against evil has got God on their side. Anyone who stands against evil weakens it! Just as anyone who doesn’t stand against it strengthens it!

A God of our own understanding. Like anything else this can be taken out of context even misused. It doesn’t say a God of our own liking, preference, interest or persuasion… I’m not sure where the modern day idea of a God of our own -separate from everyone else’s started out or came from -I hope it wasn’t from this. The idea of a God of our own understanding was not to bring separation among the masses but to bring more people to God. Eventually growing to know God as God is rather than what we would have him be. Like any person you meet for the 1st time you have some preconceived notions which later get replaced by facts through experience. At this point in my life I have not chosen a God of my own understanding but you understand God as God is -as much as I am capable with the time I have left on Earth. The people who started in Alcoholics Anonymous were Christians -the people who started coming later on were either christians who had problems with their faith or non christians (it was a mixture). But let’s be very clear about something… The people in the rooms judging people who are Christians who talk about a Christian God, or Jesus… they didn’t come first they came later. Some people try and act like it’s the other way around.

As far as christians being persecuted in the future… What has to happen is a whole lot of people of faith, or their children… have to start dropping off so that the christians then become outnumbered by the non christians, heathens, atheist, agnostics, people who have their own God like back thousands of years ago (ah yes, history repeats itself once again).

Some people are more active physically. Some people more so mentally. Still others, emotionally or spiritually.