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Adventure Christian Kids

Hello! My name is “WIFM”

And. I loves cookies.

Love. Loves. Love.

Cookies.

Lots and lots of cookies.

Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of cookies.

The minimizer in my core tells me, tells me how and just how much to push it to get one.

What?

You ask.

A delicious cookie, of course.🍪

I should mention, my name has nothing to do with radioactivity😉.


I was a born leader.

A born leader.


I learned, long ago, that the difference between me now, and me five years from now is what I have read and who I have met.


So. Pleased to meet you! Very pleased indeed. I hope this will be the beginning of a cookilicious journey together!


Yum. Yum.


In the meantime. In the interest of mysterious ways, I will “give” to you my “long name” towards the end of this persuasive and exhaustive rendition of all things “real.”

Maybe we will get hitched.


Who knows?


Just show up?

Not quite. There is much more to the perfect cookie and cookie baking than meets the eye. The ears, the soft and gooey middle😳. The tongue👅satisfaction🐸 and the frog who prefers to scamper away from the too hot pot.


of boiling H2O


My goal? To lock arms with you and move through the next phase of this crazy thing called life. Perhaps, have you take my name😚with you, (Got a little excited, did ya’)


Sorry.

My goal is for the rest of us to step up to the plate as much as the heat allows— by doing MORE than is expected of us.


There is a difference between free, giveaway, and mysterious way. My goal is to introduce the intangible. Help. Enhance the goals through others, day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year.


The difference? Who can or cannot “stand” the heat. More or less.


Feeling like a “newbie”. I thought so. MYOB loves to rope people in, really rope people in. I will go ahead and give you my non-friend’s (MYOB’s) real name.


Because it matters. In the grand scheme of “things”—including due diligence and all that un likeable “stuff.” MYOB knows of all things business. Not exactly his own.


Business.


Hello my non-friend is MYOB. Mind your own business.

Yes.

Mind your own business before there even is a chance to mind someone else’s.

Yes.


Their life or lives is and are none of yours, mine or ours business.

Unless. Of course. You asked. With the intention of due diligence of flushing out the


bugs🐸.


Friendship is not a fickle beast. Micromanagement is demoralizing.


Be the boss. Of your own life. The leader of your affairs. One can delegate authority, but not responsibility.


One can delegate authority, but not responsibility.


Because it is not responsible.😊


Please. Please. Do not pass the buck, because good chances are paralysis will occur. The process is the punishment. (bs) The reactivity and radioactivity, when expectations rule the so called coming together. May mean. No one will.


Come together.


Consider “it” a life lesson. Whatever it is. Brass buckles, wooden nickels and delicious cookies aside.


When we serve.

Serve.

With reckless abandon.

Do not nor never expect the expectation of repayment.


Transformational.

For certain.


Love.

To be loved.

Simple.

Humans complicate the bee-geebers out if it. Mostly because we want to be loved and ARE afraid to “say” it.


Sound no trumpet in the name of allowance. Allowing the left hand to know what the right hand is doing.


MYOB sorely lacks: Introspection.


Yes. looking within. MYOB. has had a terrible history of failure with this. Joined the GOG’s (group of gossipers) and all heck broke out. In the streets, in the hallways, anywhere and everywhere.


It was ugly.


Fugly Ugly.


Adversity may be the friend we needed all along.

Needed.


Get a Job?

Get a Job perspective.

We see through the biblical lens of Job that he had everything. Then, everything taken away from him—his health was attacked, his friends mocked him, he was mentally and emotionally anguished, his own wife, he lost his children, and all of his wealth was stripped from him.


He lost all of his pillars with the exception of one.


Faith.


He was learning the bonafide strength of the pillar of faith.

Faith.


The desire to be loved.

To love.

With all the soul.


The point?

We can better handle diversity when ALL of our pillars are strong.

We will be better able to handle adversity when it strikes.


While the iron is hot.

When the low key burn out.

Strike or strikeout.

But.

At the very least.

GO DOWN SWINGING!

When the stricken cannot walk and paralysis has rendered them,


Frightened beyond belief.

Look at the brighter side of life.


Look to the left, look to the right, stand up, sit down,

fight, fight, fight.


Like heck.


Do not ask what I can do for you.

Do not ask what you can do for me.


Ask:


What is my purpose today?


Secret: Many little girls really do grow up and dream of becoming a princess, the queen, of the crown, the beautiful dresses.


Few. Actually do.


It is tougher than it looks!


Taking direction is tough. Used most often with someone who is immature or time is of the essence. (Hence the cookie bribe🫢). Hey. We have all done it. Most important directive is of utmost importance when the safety of others is involved. There are appropriate situations when you, the boss of your own life, the leader of all things, you, when it is most appropriate to


Retreat.


We teach youngest children that if they do what we ask them to do, they will be rewarded, and if they do not, they will be punished. The future is not ours to see.


Yikes!

Ugh!

Rats!

Darnit!

The proof is in the pudding, not the cookie anymore.

Oh, How we have grown! Into the golden age of adulthood.


Into a childlike adult.😌. Still maneuvering the dilettantes and debutantes in order to have it our way! It has worked for so, so, long.


O.K. now for the unveiling.


I would like to introduce myself. Please, take it in, take it as you may.


My short name is “WIFM”.

My long name is “What’s in it for me.”

My short game is get it done yesterday.

My long game is. Que, Sera Sera.

Whatever will be.

Will be.


May 31, 2024 19:11

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