I used to tell people up at Mesilla Valley Hospital all the time “If you hear twice, it’s probably God talking”.

You here this alot in AA -I tell people, “It’s a good idea to read the (BIG) book, that way you have atleast some idea of what to take, and what to leave -who’s talking recovery, and who’s talking smack!” This of course is true of anything, or any where in life you go! 🤷‍♂️

You hear a lot of wonderful-sounding things roll off of people’s tongues -but not all of those so-wonderful-sounding things pass the litmus-test.

I’m trying to do God’s will today (which BTW hasn’t always been the case) -are you?

With the exception of 3 or 4 times in the past 30 years or so, my prayer has always been “Let it be as you will, not as I will!”

It has always amazed me how a couple will have one child, or 2, or 3….. And then their child will have one child, or 2, or 3.

Most of is discover who we are (become who we are?) thru the circumstances we are subject to. But God can see every possible circumstance and how we would react. He therefore knows who we are and what we will become before, if ever, we in fact go thru the experience(s).

He knows which side of things we would be on i1f we were growing up in Jerusalem around the time Jesus, His Son, walked the Earth.

How would you feel if your brother or your cousin suddenly declared themselves the messiah? The son of the living God the father! Put yourself in the shoes of the people of Bethlehem who grew up with this man.

Through the reading of the poem of the man God I may very well know more about Jesus than 90% of the people that actually lived during that time and in that area. To those who are given much much is expected!

How many of the things we are watching on TV now are fabricated and no longer real?

My grandmother used to say “you can’t out give God”.

She also used to say “you can be your own best friend or your own worst enemy”.

She also used to say “If you want to get over one woman, find another!” I have found this to be especially bad advice!

All is permitted but not all is beneficial. For some, life is one big candy store.

For some people the worst thing in the world is too much freedom.

Freedom is more about responsibility than it is about free will. Freedom requires the greatest amount of restraint and self -discipline in the absence of such things as tyranny and oppression! And of course, some people have it in them, and some people don’t.

•Title credited to Grace Hopper.

How is it that* some people get paid far too much; and others far too little? How is it that a man works till his hands bleed for a few dollars; while another never breaks a sweat and makes $10,000 in a day?

“Certain things continue to exist in the world -but only ß the expense of certain people or other groups. Meanwhile, they are either of no concern to other groups or, they are in fact advantageous on one way or another. Now, certain problems I guess I should say, continue to exist year after year because people who have the power to resolve such issue either don’t care, or are themselves encouraging their existence. When something goes wrong on the rich part of ty own -all hell breaks loose in an attempt to address the issue. But on the poor side of town? Where the mayor and the DA don’t live????

Why are blacks killing blacks? Mexicans killing Mexicans? Where is this hate coming from -being propagated or encouraged. A white man calls a black man a nigger and they’re all over it! A white man (cop) kills a black man they’re all over it! But a black man calls a black man… a black man kills a black man nothin’!

We talk about bias, or prejudice… what about personality bias, or prejudice, or personality-ism? That is more widespread than any other kind of bias, prejudice, or ism I’m aware of!

Political correctness… man picks and chooses selectively, what issues he feels the weight of the system should be thrown at! The weight of public opinion… B…. S….*

*Robert Kennedy: “Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.”

* My Uncle Steve used to call me “how come”, because I would always ask “how come”?

Ever since man stopped hunting deer and rabbit, he has been hunting his fellow man. Every where I turn man is trying to get my money! In my own home, on the phone, on the TV man figures out a way to turn it into something in it for him – every time! When someone comes up with an idea that takes off -man wants in on it, to take it over… or shut it down. Ebay, for example, started out this nice little… between regular people. Now it’s turned into a fricken mega-business!!!