A leopard cannot change its spots.

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Adventure Historical Fiction Kids

Hired Hands.

Pot Shots.

If you can hack it.

I can take it.

Cough gotcha down?

You are who you are by the company you keep.😾🐶😺🐶

And.

Sometimes the company you keep keeps blessings away from you.

It says a lot about a person by the company they keep.

Show me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are. By the company you keep, one can tell what life you lead.

Corinthians 15:33: Beware. Be very careful of the company you keep.

Do not be deceived. “ Bad company corrupts good morals.”

Try hard.

Try harder.

Deep seated in the stories of your life?

”Misery loves company”.

Reminder: I knew you when. Good times. Bad times. Hurt people hurt people. Hurt people always hurt others because they refuse

They refuse.

They refuse to find their much needed healing in prayer and the Word of God. Siri isn’t magical and clairvoyant—no matter how or how many of the characters chosen to convey the message. Perhaps, one chooses not to see God’s Word as their source of comfort and healing because they see self.

They see self.

In those good old formative years. All the stories in the world won’t make something true, false or in between. Middle of the road. Believeable. Someone else’s’ fault. No matter how many characters and run on sentences are run on and on and on and on.

This is not to say, not to accuse or suggest that persons who have done bad things will be bad people.

Jeremiah 13:23. “Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”

Sans the fictitious accounts, fine lines and speedy renditions.

Intriguing.

To say the least. Frustration to say the most. Indirect. Direct to say at best. Complications as new and erroneous developments take place.

A plan. A scheme.

When will we ever show our true faces? Stop hiding behind a screen? We have some idea or ideal that we are not held accountable because the button pushing is done by the buttons.

Wrong.

Pushing one another’s buttons is just that. We have become walking, talking button pushers of one another. Escaping into the tiny little screen we choose to use an escape from this life

This life. Is not so bad. Is very beautiful and can be beautifuller if we just stop needling each other’s psyches into oblivion. Why is it we tend to act different when we are face to face than we do behind a screen?

Coward? Rogueish. Whatever.

Face to Face.

BE more to something than meets the eye.

BE more to someone that meets the eye.

Yes. It may be difficult to understand. Less understandable.

Dreadfully difficult.

Bleeding edge stuff.

High tech.

High def.

Ultra sophisticated even.

Sounds kinda scarey, dubious and other-worldly.

Classical even.

There is such a thing as bleeding someone dry. Evil doers beware. All the storied characters in the world can’t and won’t explain your story away.

Hey. We all came from someone, somewhere.

Do you choose to engage in and with your characters in a cruel, violent or unfair way? Abustle or abusively “blast it out there” hidden behind a screen of mass destruction.

Building abutments or burning abutments. Is that your schtick? Just because the internet says so does not make it so.

Reminder: I knew you back when, back then. The leopard, the spots, the company, you keep. Batten the hatches, or batten on someone. Is really two different ways to say the same thing.

Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Life isn’t fair.

No one said it would be.

If an animal preys on another animal, it catches and eats it.

Eats it.

Ruminate all you like with that. tap, tap, tap on your keyboard to make it “ago away”. The point of the point is

Get yourself some help.

Pretending others need it more is plain and simply hogwash. browsing murkier is dishonest even if and when in murky unchartered waters.

Reminder: Character. You. Keep. People.

Mate.

Matey.

Mother.

Father.

Skitter here. Skitter there.Skitter, skitter everywhere. Perhaps that may be why face to face interaction is so scarey to you.

For you.

No judgment. Really. But hey, could ya lighten up on the character building experience of whining through using the characters, about the characters? And then whining about it? “

“Out loud”.

Most all of us are simply trying to get by. Without hindrance or hurting of another, others.

Do you: Prey🐺or Pray🙏🏻………

Actually. Would rather not know. As time goes by and on and we all become saturated with daily information who in the world can possible remember it all? Any of it all. All of it?

Put one foot in front of the other and soon you’ll be walking along.

Life can be too short.

But it does not have to be miserable.

Only the good die young. It has been said. Has been sung.

”Laugh with the sinners, or cry with the Saints”…..

You choice to laugh or cry, last we heard.

Straightforward or forthcoming makes no difference in the grand scheme. Of life. Admitting a mistake is the first step to alleviating the problem. Otherwise you butt up against the abutment and it comes crashing down.

Fast. The fragility of it all. Probably lost on the prey-ers, but definitely not lost on the pray-ers. No one is trying to convince anyone of anything. Your choice—tap, tap, tap. Images, likenesses, caricatures, cartoons—makes no difference. The misery comes from within. Not without.

Sending in a kid to do a man’s job is kinda weasly—The training, the discipline needs to chart the course. If wak in one department, please Dear God phone a friend.

Reminder: BEWARE. Be careful of the company you keep. The friends you hang out with. May they joyously include: Ones who walk on four legs, hairy (or not), loyal to a fault and speak no words.🐶One’s who:

Bark like the dickens and never stop expressing their thoughts and feelings😃 of provides protective covering as no other friend in the world as capably can do or does.

April 14, 2023 17:46

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