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Man Plans.God laughs.🙂Things in life always happen for a reason.Things in life just don’t always happen when we plan them to happen.When we plan them to happen.When life is not happening according to our life plan, we dig our heals in further and further. We believe we have control…..over others, money, food, our wants and desires. And, we work. Work harder. Work even harder to control life, its situations, circumstances and nuances.We know it is about surrender yet we forge on as if we think our struggles are unique. No doubt about it.We ar...
Whether we like it or not.Life sometimes is a process.A process of unknowns.A process of missteps.A process of joys.A process of excitements.We try to control the outcome, the outcomes.Oh. How foolish we are☺️.The cliff notes version of a life well lived. Boy oh boy. The cliff notes seem like the bestest shortcut in the whole wide world. That Bible, seems like a heavy and difficult book with difficult words that are too heavy to carry.Exactly🙂....
ATTENTION: Children of God.Please read until the end.He ain’t heavy he’s my brother.Let’s play four square.Rules of the game:STEP UP.STEP SIDE.STEP BACK.STEP DOWN.A perfect square.Of equal sides.Beats the never ending circle, the “rings” of specificity and exactness.Possibly why geometry is the diagonal choice for some.Statistics the choice for the others.Algebra the choice for the others...
We don’t need no stinkin’ backpack—clear plastic or strapless☺️.Imagine this 2024 youngsters.Years ago, and I do not know how many years because I am not great with “numbers.” Unfortunately as with many things “life” we remember the negative stuff and forget the positive.Someday, I will figure out why this is………until then,Let’s talk baggage.Yes. BAGGAGE.Hopefully at this point in time,In your young lives.yours,your baggage is ...
The funny thing about trust.Is.It is ironic a lot of the time.It is super duper easy to trust another when everything is going well, going swell.But is it super duper easy to trust that same another when things go bad, really bad.Remember, think about last week’s blog-prompts about racing, the race and the rat race………We talk ourselves silly sometimes.We may even drive ourselves mad, as in madness.Anger on the other hand. It is easy.It comes and goes.<...
Dear Children and Young Adults of the 2,000’s,How are you?Question #1.When was the last time you wrote a letter?A bonafide letter to a person?A friend.An enemy.A teacher.A parent.A coach.A mentor.A cousin.A flat Stanley assigned pen pal from the other side of the globe?Question #2.Have you ever heard the term “snail mail?What comes to your mind when you think of “snail mail.”Fast?Slow?...
“Doctor, doctor, gimme the news.”No pill’s gonna cure my ill.You had me down twenty-one to zipSmile of Judas on your lipShake my fist, knock on wood.I got it bad, and I got it good.” (jmm)Exactly.What?You may ask.(If you really want to know, really want to face the facts)No pill’s gonna cure the ill.In the long run.In the short term.Circles.Cycles.Scooters.Or.Skipping.Ove...
Who actually wants to turn back time?Sure.Life gets heavy at times.Really heavy.No knew this.No knew that in order to live a fulfilling life, have a worthwhile existence. No must be uttered from time to time.But. (There is always a but).It wasn’t so much the mistakes, big and small, that No knew makes us who we are.The issue at hand.No simply could not say, “No.”Mistakes are the lessons we need to live.Mistakes are the lessons we need to kno...
Be not afraid. I go before you always. Come follow me. And I will give you rest. Great. Because I could really use a nap. Rest my eyes. Look at the back of my eye lids. For some inspiration. Wreading, writing, writhmatic. Becomes all fuzzy in the haze of the days. In the haze of the maze. The one thing I am not afraid of....
Control.Who has control of who.Control.What has control of who.Control.Where is control of who.Control.When has control of who.Control.Why has control of who.Control.How Has control of who.Huh?Confusion abounds.Leverage.Levers are a funny thing.Pulled up.Pulled down.The scrolling rolling pictures and numbers pass before the eyes in dizzying milliseconds.Then.
Wait a minute.Wait. Just a minute.What’s the point?Of a Dry January.Of a Dry “bar.”If I see another person on their mobile device, driving in a car, I think I am gonna blow.Head blow kind of thing.Explosion out, in, up, down and ask: How can you operate a vehicle machine while looking down? Two hands on the wheel, ten and two and for those who have been around awhile: That’s clock-speak for where to place our hands most safely on the wheel.Curiosity causes me to ask the mi...
To Impair.In thoughts, words, actions.Impalpable.In thoughts, words, actions.Lost in the labyrinth of existence.Not quite dead.Not quite alive.Unintuitively living a life of rigidity and routine. Desiring so badly for 1+1 to equal 2. Reason and sanity lost, too. The start of the day and the end of the day are the same. No different. Days. Seemingly an endless loop of numb existence and dumb persistence. Abtrusely existing in the fringes of the day, too frightened to take a leap, too tired t...
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.Freedom is not free.Nothing in this great big world, our great big life is guaranteed.Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.The Human TouchBy: Spencer Michael Free’Tis the human touch in this world that counts,The touch of your hand and mind,Which means far more to the fainting heartThan shelter and bread and wine;For shelter is gone when the night is o’er,And bread lasts only a day,But the touch of the hand and the sound of ...
Wow.It matters.I guess it does matter.If you, I, we are black or white.And has, for quite awhile.Who knew?Not me.Like my faithful new canine companion.We are and have always have been,color blind.Naïveté is the sincerest form of honesty.Even with a snazzy tool best of street smarts wrapped tightly around,The middle.The mid section.The troubled middle.Which way: Up or Down.Which way you headed—Up ...
There is a lot of us and US in Jesus..Take the time.Take the time to look in front of you.It takes time.Your time.My time.I will be the first.The first of the New Year.The year 2024.To offer to the ones, the beings, the folks under 21.A sincere apology.The sincerest.The sincere apologies. To. The Younger folks.We don’t got this.No.Not at all.We have sold your futures.For our own.Our own selfish tendencie...
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