“It’s not about me.” If looks could kill, they already did.

In order to know direction, honorably good to know where we came from.

Read the signs.

That way, the sign of the cross does not become the self-crucifixion habitual daily ritual our Lord for us to become a better person.

Read the signs.

Of the cross.

When the cross seems too hard to bear

Alone.

North

South

East

West.

Read the signs.(pf)

Getting out of our own head, our own way.

Getting out of our own way and own head.

Getting caught up in those inconvenient principles.

Seems impossible.

To escape.

It is simple.

But. Not easy.

To make a point.

When the arrow has already gone straight to the heart. And through before we even felt its pain.

The heart of the matter.

The law does matter.

Danger is safety becoming tested.

Dangerous to test principled beliefs. At least strongly held principled beliefs.

The vow kinda beliefs.

To make a point.

A closed heart is a sealed heart. (pf)

Better to hold on for dear life.

Your own dear life.

Unless and until human beings learn to read the signs.

God spent his life teaching His Son. To read the signs. To pass on good and honorable knowledge to and for the greater good.

And not just “me”.

Some folks watch.

Some folks listen.

Some folks watch and listen.

Some folks tap delete.

Even if and when truth becomes too much to bear.

Some folks rustle up a word salad.

To those who may be listening.

Who then gobble it up.

The best of the best spring into action!🙏🏻🤸😃

To be of useful service to God and others oftentimes teaches us to turn the other cheek.🤨 . I don’t want to. I know. Me neither.

But ya gotta try.

Indeed.

And.

Yes.

When.

The best when words, deeds, actions are performed with the innocence of a child.

And not “just ‘cuz” it is important to look busy for the sake of looking busy.

This may only be called confusion.

Because kids get it usually before adults. When they watch the daily show of excuses they may figure, hey what the heck, works for the grown ups, why not give it a try?

Rules.

Laws.

Rules and Laws.

They are designed to keep us safe. Keep order.

Law and Sin.

”What shall we say, then?” That the Law itself is sinful? Of course not! But it was the Law that made me know what sin is.”

Sin finds its chance to deceive in everyday occurrences. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “Do not covet”. Sin finds its way in. Sin found its chance to stir up all kinds of covetousness in me by working through the commandment.For sin is a dead thing apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life, and in my case brought death. sin found its chance and deceived me by working through the commandments; by means of the commandment, sin killed me.(Romans 7-11)

Sin finds its chance to deceive.

Gosh darn it.

We human beings gotta stay alert. Be aware. Quotas are an end of the month thing. So are bills due.

Words of wisdom.

Words of wisdom pre technology, technological advances.📝

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Doesn’t make them any less true, the words any less honorable.

Doesn’t make or mean the words are any less pertinent to a life well lived. Lawfully. Habitually. Spiritually.

Those who are full of themselves don’t get this.

”Passing interest” is the staple of their vocabulary.

The good news. Little children know.

Teach your children well.

No fair blaming the school. The neighbor. The driver.

When you are late to the party.

You are late to the party.

Playing catch up is a dangerous, road raged filled game.

Or then again, so can staying ahead of the other guy.

Teach your children well.

Must have a code that you can live by.

And so, become yourself

Because the past is just a good bye.

And kids:

Teach your parents well.

The children’s hell will slowly go by.

And feed them on your dreams

The one they pick’s the one you’ll go by.

And grown ups:

Don’t you ever ask them, “Why?”

If they told you, you would cry

So just look at them and sigh

And know they love you. (c,s,n,y)

Advantage: Kid.

Read the sign.

And if you do not.

And you do not pray.

May God have mercy on the soul of the thing, the evil, you are trying to hide from. When you get your way, depending on the methods used, it can be a touchy rocky bumpy road.

The Conflict in Man:

”We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am mortal man sold as a slave to sin.”

Wait.

What.

Pardon.

Could you repeat the question?

Everyone?

Black, White, or Bone shades too?

O.K. Listening?……Hearing……

”I do not understand what I do not know;;for I don’t do what I would like to do, but instead, I do what I hate.” When Imdo what Imdon’t want to do, this shows that I agree that the Law is right. So I am not really the one who does this thing; rather it is the sin that lives in me. I know that good does not live in me—that is in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it. I don’t do the good I want to do; instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do. If I do what I don’t want to do this means that I am no longer am I the one who does it; instead it is the sin that lives in me.

(Sounds eerily like adult-word-salad-speak).

Advantage: Law.

Advantage: Kid.

My inner being delights in the law of God. (Romans 7-25)

Our lives are filled with miracles, signs of love.(pf) In small ways. In giant God-like ways.

“In times of loneliness, show them that You are never far away; in times of peril, be their protection; in times of temptation be their strength, and when they stumble and fall give them penitence and pardon, peace and hope.”

Advantage: God.

AMEN.

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