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Bring it on.
The things we do for love🫨
Ready, willing and able?
Yes.
Willing to do what it takes.
Yes.
Willing to punch back.
Yes.
Willing to not accept.
Yes.
Willing to stand, really stand.
Yes.
Willing to live with a good disposition.
Yes.
Willing to live with a good disposition toward fellowship and sharing.
Yes.
Willing to resist benevolence at all costs.
Yes.
Willing to live in supportive companionship in distress or woe.
Yes.
Compassion comes close to the very heart.
The very heart of moral awareness.
Courage takes its stand by others.
Compassion takes its stand with others.
It takes seriously the reality of other persons, their inner lives, their emotions, and perhaps the biggest challenge of all, their external circumstances. (wjb)
When we are at war, with ourselves, compassion is a natural feeling which, by moderating the violence of love of self in each individual, contributes to the preservation of the whole species. (jjr)
So much to unpack.
The process is the punishment.(bs)
The weaponization is on its way.(ct)
Moderating the violence of love of self.
Yikes!
What then, how then do we fight the forces? The forces of constant dive bombing and endless sneakily situated plans and restrictions.
We hurry.
No pause.
No yield.
Instant actions.
Hurry up.
Compassion hurries us.
Compassion hurries us without reflection to the relief of those who are in distress.(wjb)
At the end of the day, we all must live with ourself.
Diamonds and Toads.
Diamonds and Toads.
”To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. To speak with anger and disagreeableness, may bring unhappiness.
Or it might not bring unhappiness……..
It will be lacking.
In productivity.
Did you know? People naturally love their own likeness.
God help us all🫤
In our attempts to stay the same.🫢
Fighting a fight someone else’s way, with words results in serpents and toads spewing out of the mouth. Fighting a fight with the psyche oftentimes ends up with/results in
crazy making behavior. (lk)
Yep.
Crazy making behavior. Crazy. Making. Behavior.
There is no expensive lipstick, liquid foundation in the whole wide world that covers the ugly of a heart in distress, a heart that is a mess. The ugly of the hurt and the fits and starts of patching it up.
True.
There is beauty in everyone, everything.
Beauty is in us all. Somewhere…….
Why else would the serpents and toads flee……from the mouth that spews the venom to and of another. They really don’t like it either!🐸🦇🪳🐜🪱
When we spew it leaves an opening…..a gaping hole.
What fills that opening CAN be a beautiful thing
Beauty can slip in and permeate our soul.
Beautiful faces are they that wear
The light of a pleasant spirit there😃;
Beautiful hands are they that do
Deeds that are noble, good and true;
Beautiful feet are they that go
Swiftly to lighten another’s woe.
We are the hands and feet of one another.
Of God.
One may argue.
There are ways to stall to prolong the “glory”
But then it is not glory at all.
Not love at all.
It is called.
Procrastination.
The process is and further becomes the punishment.
And the vicious cycle may continue.
There is always, always an opportunity for kindness.
Added plus, acts of compassion add meaning to lives.
That is a darn good math equation.
At the end of the day, we must live with ourself. Our decisions. Our reactions. Our fears. Our distractions.
How did you spend your day?
Lost?
Spent?
”If you sit down at the set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went—
Then you may count that day well spent.
But if, through all the lifelong day,
You’ve cheered no heart, by yea or nay—
If, through it all
You’ve nothing done that you can trace
That brought the sunshine to one face—
No act most small
That helped some soul and nothing cost—
Then count that day as worse than lost.
Yep.
But don’t play.
On or with another’s emotions.
Suffering is a part of every human existence.
No need to spread that “wealth” around.
One match can light an explosive situation, ignite a fire of irreparable damage, harm.
Harm reduction.
It is a thing. A thing of love. One of the things we do for love. In the name of love. It is complicated🤨 It is not impossible so long as the rules of the game change.
Reactions.
Response.
Reconciliation.
The things we do for love.
Crazy making behavior for sure☺️.
Especially if and when principles get brushed aside. For the others, those others to deal with, pass around like the hot potato. Why not just teach each other to take ownership. Real ownership. And teach each other that “No”.
It’s not ok.
That’s not ok.
When it is not.
Ok.
When real harm is done.
Principles need to stand with.
Adding fuel to the fire does not make it better, bigger, brighter.
Add right around the corner, there will always be another opportunity to opportune. At the ready. Depends on what you want out of the deal.
And.
Everyone wants something.
But.
Everyone does not want the same something.
Some prefer the peace step aside and stay away from taking precedent. Who needs a gun when clickbait is around.
Absurd. Vague. Preposterous.
We need to know what time it is. Really. Know. What. Time. It. Is. For the health and well-being of offensive and defensive acts of kindness if for nothing else. Acceptance or rejection is becoming a crazy making behavior.
Roses and glory.
Thorns and ouch.
In the end it doesn’t really matter.
When it does, matter, is along the way. On the way. On the way of making your way,
through.
it all.
Where it matters.
In the heart.
The heart of the matter.
In the heart of all matters.
It only takes a spark to get a fire going.
Soon, all those around will warm up in its glowing
Beautiful!
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