Humor is a prelude to faith and Laughter is the beginning of prayer. (Reinhold Niebuhr) Don’t take yourself so dog-gone seriously! Who are you to think you can change anything, anybody, even you? Jesus says you can’t change a hair’s […]
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Out of Control
Why am I looking for the middle ground? Because I don’t have control on the other two that are available to me. If accept spiritual help, I’m out of control. If I’m going on to the bitter end blotting out […]
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–Procrastination is not laziness. It is fear. ~ Julia Cameron Fear lurks, a cur disciplined, aware who’s boss, but surly. It’s hard, you know, when years on years he ruled, controlling me. Retraining him, drilling me — in some way we […]
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Deadline looms. “You are not connected to the Internet.” Crisis. Disaster. I’ve a dozen hours to get it done, don’t have to sleep but a few of them. The world’s not ending. Power’s all around. Batteries and towers not needed. […]
Continue reading »Neither Earned Nor To Be Spurned
Free means worthless, cheap means trash. I’ll pay my way or go away. Charity offends, degrades, scorns me despite good intent. Sometimes, though, I can’t carry my own, must own up to hopeless, helpless, powerless. Then the largesse itself conveys […]
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