0716212221: It’s a terrible thing not knowing what you have (some people never will) – And worse still, finding out after it’s too late!

0716212217: I’m not (dis)interested… I’m tired!

Posted on July 16, 2021

0716212211: I was once told in a seminar (T.M.I.Y That Man is You – Christian…) that satan claimed man is so easy to lead astray, to trick. Sounds like a challenge to me!

0716212206: If God is such a punishing, merciless God, then why are there so many very bad people running around unpunished?* The fact of the matter is….

*People get so upset at God when things go bad for (good people) themselves or people they care about. The first point is this: “how do you know they’re good”? My second point is this: doing bad is one thing; not having any remorse is something entirely different. So, often times we never really know (for sure) what’s going on with people we presume are good. And as far as people who are bad, we never really know for sure their motivations, nor their reservations, or regrets, if any.

When I was early in recovery, my attitude was this: I wanted to do GOD’S job and I wanted HIM to do mine -cause mine was too boring and lacked power. The moral of this story – leave GOD’S job to GOD. HE has far greater intelligence(s) when it comes to knowing what people do when they’re not around us, and what is going on in places inside of them we cannot even begin to imagine.

0716212150: A lot of people don’t care who you are as long as you get the job done.. This is a mistake!

Our spiritual welfare and our relationship with God are HIS first priority – At least that’s my report! But not so with many human beings. Being successful in terms of the outcomes rather than the effort is more the lay-of-the land – are how things work down here on planet earth. Many peoples attitude is one of “your best effort doesn’t put food on the table… or buy yachts”. That’s one of the things I love most about GOD -effort is everything, and outcomes are secondary! If you gave your best – YOU SUCCEEDED! SUCCEEDING IS ENTIRELY IN YOUR HANDS!

What we do and why we do it. These are the 2 things human beings struggle with most in life . I think at this stage of the game (in many cases), God would settle for us doing the right thing for the wrong reason.

0716212137: Are you familiar with the song “I’m Your Captain/Closer to Home”? Well you really should listen to it. It’s a very spiritual song. As an Alcoholic in recovery, I often feel it is a song about my own recovery, my own journey from the abyss back to life among the living. Recently, I read some of the background on Wikipedia and was completely moved by it (what I read made me go from loving it to falling in love with it). Check it out some time!

•Title credited to Walt Whitman from poem of same title (1865).

0716212327: The trick with people, with women, is you have to get them attached emotionally (many women have such a hope for that fairytale life* – and more than just a few men play on this). Some men will generally stick around until they get what they want and put up quite an effort in many instances. But this is not an emotional attachment (not a mature one anyways), it’s a physical one in many cases. Many men operate from a sense of desperation when it comes to sex. Many women on the other hand operate from a sense of aloofness. Now from a financial perspective… the roles are often reversed!

Many-a-woman figure men are a dime-a-dozen. While many-a-man figure (act as if) they’ll probably never get laid again (unless they really really try). Ever sit home with your car in the driveway and think nothing of going anywhere – that is until the cars in the shop for a week? Many women are of the frame-of-mind that the car is always in the driveway; while many men are of the frame-of-mind the car is always in the shop! 😆

*I’ve seen many-a-woman go after the same type of man over, and over, and over again refusing to change their MO. And of course the result is (almost) always the same. Women and men are in essence, cut from the same cloth – at best, just different ends. Oftentimes, men and women both get hurt in these situations because their motives are suspect 🤔. One’s intentions may be benign, but their motivations are self-serving. And this leaves us vulnerable to “the kill”.

•Title credited to book by John Gray of same title.

You accept people as they are or you alienate them. You either let them in or they go away (sooner than later in most cases).

0716212328: A lot of us traumatics develop a (imaginary) fixation regarding numerous things we feel our life, our well being, and our comfort depend on. Speaking only for myself, most of these turn out to be boogie-men. The fact of the matter is most of those threats have nothing to do with my life, my well being, or my comfort. If they did, then I must confess, that with regard to these things (thus far), I had it all wrong -not only were they not a threat, but in many instances apparently, whether as a whole or in part, contributed to my survival, my well-being, and my comfort – without a doubt!

•Title credited to Alfred Hitchcock movie of same name (1943)

When we feel short changed or that something is missing from our life, many of us are constantly on the alert -looking out for, or at least seizing (any) opportunities to ease this state of being.

0716212329: Doing things the right way can take a long time and in the insane world we live in there’s no guarantee we will succeed if what we’re after is something material -as opposed to spiritual – (because you never know which people are going to respond logically or illogically to logic or illogic – and this of course is never the case with God). So a lot of people cheat to get what they want faster (or will simply never (have the capability to) acquire certain things legitimately because GOD MADE IT SO – AND FOR A VERY GOOD REASON!) – even if they don’t deserve it (as a consequence of pursuing this particular avenue).

•Title credited to dialogue from movie “Unforgiven” starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris.

0716212328: A lot of the ways in which I’ve come out of trauma are through ensuing traumatic experiences themselves. “THE GAME” Sean Penn & Michael Douglas

A lot of times I have been going through a difficult time and then I get sick – have a cold or flu – and it intensifies my emotional experience. Sometimes taking me to the point (or place) where I ordinarily would not have gone to (could not have gone to) and resulting in something profoundly transitional or healing. Have you ever had this sort of experience?