The National Inquirer-Could it be—YOU?

Getting the scoop.

The dirt

The goods on someone else.

How often do you find yourself seeking out the dirt with bad intentions regarding the life of another person simply because they “know a thing or two” about another person’s “thing or two”? Their life, their family, their hopes, their dreams.

When you look in the mirror the only real way to not like what you see is to close your eyes.

Close your eyes.

Ironic. Sad maybe. The funny thing about selfies. We allow ourselves “do-overs” all the time-when we don’t like the picture we take of ourselves. The one we attempt over and over to project to the world. The good “us”. The caring “us”. The honest “us”.

When really was is deep down inside of us, down in our core of being exists the real feeling: Our happiness is another person’s misery.

I dunno about you. I do not want to live like that. How can we change this insidious desire to “win” at all costs? Consider this, to perform an exercise daily of open heart surgery on our own hearts. The benefits are numerous and so too will the positive outcomes of peace and harmony.

When you make a fist, it makes your heart work harder.

Exercise your bad thoughts and intentions. Takes a toll on your heart and mind and will eventually give way to bad. Peace and harmony become a far-off-in-the-distance achievement. An unattainable goal of practices and habits destined to be the core of your soul.

Unless.

Your exercise.

The heart is a muscle after all.

As not a betting person, I would wager to say we all want goodness, however based on life circumstances and personal attributes, we take the easy way out—seek the dirt to seek and destroy another.

I dunno. I do not want to live like that. Do you?

Each and every day, either privately or publicly we still have the personal wills and freedom to invoke the Holy Spirit through our words, deeds and actions.(pf)

The benefits of a good heart, an open heart far out way the detriments. No matter what we were born with, we still have the daily opportunities of peace and harmony at our fingertips.

When you make a fist, it makes your heart work harder. Will you use your fist to pound the table, will you use your fist to pump it with another in a sign of solidarity, or will you use your fist to punch someone smack dab in the nose.

Fear and anger are motivating drivers of behavior. Good and bad. How will you exercise yours? Your behavior in the spirit of peace and harmony with another? Words, too can be the fist with which we punch another in the nose, although the scars are not obvious, they can be long lasting. Leaving us feeling dead and buried before we even had a come back, a punch back.

Closing the door. Closing the door of our heart is one of the worst ways to close the door on another. A ginormous punch in the face as if to say, “Hey, I do not want you here….get out of here.” Life is already complicated enough. When and if we close our hearts, it becomes even more complicated.

The book of rules.

Jesus tells us the lessons and stories through gentle and kind repetition through the collection of stories in the gospel, in the Bible. It really is a good book. The good book. It reads of how NOT to shatter another persons hopes, another persons dream. To walk alongside their wants and desires in a way that their competences are nurtured and not destroyed.

Damage is done.

Perhaps.

The reminders in the good book, by the best selling author Jesus quoting His Father, really is a good, good book.

Instead of being the National Inquirer of another persons faults and failings why wouldn’t you pick up the good book and learn a thing or two? Just a suggestion!

A good book recommendation😃 for you. The opportunities of growth and learning are endless. The evil we breath around us comes in many shapes and sizes and forms. (pf). Oftentimes we maybe unaware of what “hit us”. When we come to we are left with an empty heart, choosing to play the way the other guy plays in an attempt to get ahead.

It takes a toll. On one’s heart. And then the temptation to continue down this path of existence becomes the norm. The ultimate punch in the face. Blocks. Paralyzing. Isolates (pf) us from others because we were “put in our place” by the words deeds and actions of another.

Or so they thought! Jesus and the gospel lessons remind us over and over how not to fall into this trap. And it is a trap. Of self over another. The way to a good and honest heart is “The remedy of the risen one” (pf)

The remedy of the risen one is inexpensive. Please make no mistake, it is not “cheap”. Words of wisdom seldom, if ever are cheap. We just choose not to listen and damage can be done if we do not exercise the good lessons daily.

We have no idea what lies in another person’s core…really no idea. So, why doesn’t it seem best, prudent even to follow the law? To ensure the laws are followed to the “dot of the “i’s” and the crosses of the “T’s.”

Excuses and reasons are numerous and varied….. It is too difficult? There is no wiggle room. Blatant disregard? Too watered down? It would be a fool and foolish to assume that one knows what goes on in another persons heart. So instead of attempting to get the dirt on someone else’s life, in order to feel better about your own life.

Take a stand.

Make a change

Do a little open heart surgery of self reflected thought of your own heart and its intentions. The remedy of the risen one awaits you to exercise its lessons in the interest of peace and harmony.