Instant Gratification: Drive for show, putt for dough

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Adventure Christian Kids


Stop.

Stop it! (lk)

Stopped.

Stuck, too.

In front of:

A facade.

The facade.

Of all facades.

Rest assured.

There was, or is something, someone holding “it” all together.

Walk.

Walk the narrow path. (gb)

And.

You will never

NEVER,

Walk alone.

Privately privacy.

Can be a hedge.

Can cause a hedge.

Despair.

And all the trappings, or how shall we say,

The remnants.


Actually sown together make a beautiful blanket, a comfortable quilt, a tightly knitted scarf.


Of and for warmth.

But.

The plague.

Is not far behind.

In the forms and trappings of cute little bugs.

Of “friendship”…..take it or leave it.


Work alongside true workers and you will “get” the meaning behind the madness.


The face.

Our faces.

Hold a thousand truths.

Maybe even a gagillion.


The kick.

The kicker.


The heart does not.

Mask a thousand truths.

A gagillion.

Superficiality has a way of kidding the kiddie-kidders in all of us.

Naïveté aside.

Street fighting.

In fighting.

All the same.

Pure innocence in the face of madness has a way of turning the tide.


On its proverbial head.

And.

Makes you prove.

PROVE yourself in the best and naked ☺️ ways.


Bible thumpers beware.

All talk and no action makes Jack a dull boy.

Oops.

I guess “it” historically states: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.


Sorry. ‘ Bout the ACTION part.

As in are you capable?

Power.

Control.

Bored.

Boredom.

Within you. Yourself.

Thinking…..

Need to get me some action.

Or.

I need a vacation.


Well.

Culturally, we are wayyyyyy and partly there.

Playing “baton” in the relay race of life are ya?

Running round in circles to prove it?

Talking the talk.

Walking the walk.

Blaming it on “business as usual.”


Perceived truth.

Based on common principles.

Let’s start

(Again)

With this.

At the starting gate, starting line or whatever you call your new day, your new normal, your new old.


Disclaimer: Lord John Russel (c. 1850) observed poetically that a “proverb is the wit of one, and the wisdom of many.”


😃🫣🤪🤣😂😅🥲😆😁😁😄😄😃😀


Archer Taylor’s argument in the matter of proverbial proverb speak: “Formulating a scientific “definition of a proverb is too difficult to repay the undertaking.”


TOO DIFFICULT TO REPAY THE UNDERTAKING?…..


Wisdom.

Truth.

Morals.

Are, a “thing.”

Really.


Wisdom is not a cliche.

Morality is not a cliche.

An eye for an eye is not a cliche.

Love your neighbor as yourself is not a cliche.

Loving. Period. Paragraph. Is not a cliche.


So.

What.

I need a vacation?

Or.

A staycation?

Or.

Just outta,

Here.

Well this earth needs you.

Climately

Humanly.

Morally.


This earth needs us to be there for one another.

And.

If you come to the table as a street fighter.

So. Be. It.

Bring it on.

May the best man win.


There. I said it.

Go ahead and sue me.


I worry.

Not about myself.

About you.

Do you mean what you say, say what you mean.

If so.

I am so outta here.


I can’t live in the facade of your “truths.”

And.

I never said you were wrong.


But.

I do believe chivalry is not dead. (hm).

There are people who may and can push us to the limit.

But.

Only if we are willing. We may not have been willing or able at the starting gate.

The facade breakers will break us to prove we are or aren’t,

Ready.

More due to the fact,


We did not know.

What to do.

In the heat of the moment.

Bail.

Not bail.

Lie.

Not lie.

Pretend it was “all ok” as we buried deeper and deeper within the recesses of our intentions. Our own souls periodically “crying out” to ourselves: “Hey! What are you doing. And Why? For who?


There is only one “Who” worth consideration.


No one other than “Who” Which is “ Him” is worth it.

His repetition of teaching to us is constant.

We, too distracted, do not always listen.


The wise man.

Builds his house on a rock.

Is.

Founded in a rock.


The foolish man.

Builds his house on the sand.


Great!

You think.

A day at the beach!💪🏻

Hardly.

Doesn’t work that way.

Really.

The sands cannot withhold the storms of the seconds, minutes, hours and days.


Well.

You think.

I will, then, draw a line in the sand.

Pretend, even.

All is swell.

We are good.

We are great.

Facade.

The difference between strength and weakness is to draw the line, stand up and take the punches.


They will hurt.

Verbally.

Physically.

Emotionally.

AI-ally.

Otherly.

Some people have way too much confidence. And. Will arrogantly share it with you as well.

To your demise.

Not theirs.


It morally pays to do the grunt work.

Find others who will accept it as it is.

They are out there.

May you have the peaceful presence to find it.


There exists chaos.

Points of no return.

New normals.

All that kind of jargon.

Permanent.

Irreversible.

Double speak.

Double talk.

Turning back becomes an exercise in delusion.

Confusion.

Refusion.


Burning a bridge. Alienation. Isolation.

Can and will you handle it?

In the interest and exercise of your believes, words, actions.

Involves a high level of hostility. Unimaginable. Can you, will you, stand the heat when you ask others to be there? For you ?


Better prove your mettle up front, in person. With action.


There is such an act as an “irreversible deed.” All the follow up talk and gibberish in the world will not make sense of the act. Of violence, hurt, unrelenting control tactics.


As in “can’t unring a bell.”


The heart knows what it wants.

God knows our hearts.

He really does.

He sees through the facade.


It may come when we least expect it.

The hint.

The clue.

The acceptance.

The rejection.


We have control over nothing, really.


The best we can do is to walk the narrow path.(gb)

Not get too distracted.

By our selfish wants and desires.

And.

Our own, our personal,

Questionable maths.

We scream.

We cry.

We plead.

But.

The best answer lies is the acceptance we place within ourselves to do the best and most we can in the moment for one another.


Simple.

But.

Not.

Easy.


It is most simple when we just do it and don’t think too much. Not necessarily will everything fall into place.


But then again, who cares?

Most people are good.

They knowingly know who else is too,

Good.





October 30, 2023 03:16

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