Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
Attempts to legalize any kind of gay union involve two things:
—Forcing a Fantasy
—Fear of the Facts
Joining two people of the same sex and calling it marriage doesn’t work—it won’t work—it can’t work.
Gay union doesn’t do what marriage does.
Gay union does bad things that marriage does not do.
When marriage and family fail, bad things happen.
When anything replaces marriage and family, worse things happen.
In the vacuum without complete marriage and complete family, everyone suffers.
If you don’t give it now, you will leave it all soon enough.
Most people have it backwards:
Leave a lot of loot. Pile it up, stash it away, save it for someday—and die. Then who gets it? And what does it do to them?
Leave a lot of loot,
OR
Leave a legacy.
Legacy is not measured in dollars or houses or land. It is Character—what’s there before and what’s left after all the rest is stripped away.
Legacy is what people would say you did for them when no one knew.
Give it all now, because you will leave it all soon.
“You wouldn’t go to a doctor to cure your illness if he has the same illness and couldn’t cure it in himself.”
“Don’t go to anyone for marriage counseling if he couldn’t save his own marriage.”
Myths—both of them.
Instead, the people most effective in helping others are often those who have been through the same fire themselves, even the fire of falling into sin or the fallout from the fire of another’s sin.
All financial strategies have risks, including no strategy. If you have no plan and do nothing, you can still lose everything.
So, risk is universal. It can’t be avoided, only moderated.
Is there any financial strategy then, that has no risk?
Yes, only if you give away 100%.
FIRST—TRY HARDER—Just work harder, longer, more. Most Americans are in this group. Times are tough. Times are uncertain. Hold onto what you’ve got. If you have a job, do anything to keep it. If you have to, get a second job. Sacrifice (even your dreams) to put food on the table and pay bills. Hope things get better. Don’t waste your limited time and energy to think about things you can’t do anything about anyway.
SECOND—TRY SMARTER—Work smarter, not harder. Pick the best advisor and learn how to beat the system. Get a job that is recession-proof. Make only guaranteed investments. Learn from others’ mistakes. Play your cards right, and you don’t have to sacrifice. Believe in yourself. Be confident. Don’t share all your secrets, and you’ll come out ahead.
THIRD—TRY WISER—Wiser is usually confused with working harder and working smarter and believing in yourself. Truth is, wiser includes working hard and working smart, but not depending on yourself for success. “Wiser” is not even a common word these days because it suggests principles from outside ourselves. It implies learning something from older people—people that younger folks may not consider successful.
This calls for another paragraph. In America we’ve gone for half a century of progress, mostly smooth sailing, and a universally accepted formula: get a good job, get good stuff, get good insurance, get a good retirement, it’s yours because you earned it, enjoy it because you deserve it.
There have been very few glitches to this pattern for most people, until now. We hear that the current economic policies are unsustainable, yet individuals seem to have few choices for fundamental change. If the whole system blows, we’ll just deal with it then. In the meantime, we try harder and think we’re trying smarter.
So, where does this leave trying wiser?
If we took time to stop, sit, and listen to older people who learned contentment apart from the current focus on finance, we would be better prepared for the days ahead. The greatest challenge for older people is finding anyone who will appreciate their wisdom, receive it, and apply it.
If you find a person who has learned to live out “Godliness with contentment,” do everything you can to build a relationship with that person and spend a lot of time with him/her.
If you find a person who can honestly say, “Having food and clothing, let us be content,” choose to let that person influence you.
Greater speed does not contribute to wisdom.
Hard work may contribute to wisdom.
Smart does not equal wise.
“Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”
“You choose this day whom you will serve.”
“Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, or God’s Messiah,
Offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
Twixt that darkness and that light.”
“If the Lord be God, follow Him.”
“Lead on, O King eternal.
The day of march has come;
Henceforth in fields of conquest
Thy tents shall be our home.
Through days of preparation
Thy grace has made us strong,
And now, O King eternal,
We lift our battle song.”
YOUR CHOICE – – – TODAY
Liars rarely lie once.
Liars lie until they lie where no one lies again.
Count on it.
Think about the lying tyrants and murdering dictators of history. They lied until people believed them. They lied until they died.
How do you stop a liar with power?
You stop a liar with power, with power.
If there is an exception to that in history, please give me their name.
America is an exceptional country, for good reason. I have written on that.
The growing monster White House dictatorship in Washington is a pack of lies—a snarling wolf pack of lies that started out sounding like sheep with sweet promises.
I believe in a happy ending, but I ask my share of questions that begin with, “When . . . ?” (to say nothing of all the “Why?” questions I could tell you about)
Life has a lot of tough questions, so what about the ones with missing answers and the ones with “wrong” answers? (and there’s another question)
First, I can’t make a happy ending happen.
Second, maybe my happiness is not the goal. (I didn’t just write that, did I ?)
Third, I hate it when preachers and writers [me too] sound like they’re going to answer life’s impossible questions—and then after thirty minutes or thirty pages you can’t remember what they said at the beginning.
Fourth, maybe others’ happiness is my goal. (I didn’t write that either, did I ? I’ll tell you one thing for sure, that was not my idea.) Does happiness happen only when you make others happy, and you forget about pursuing your own?
There’s a lot in the Good Book that says so.
And check out the shortest bottom line on this website—the “UNDERSTATEMENT OF ALL ETERNITY” (11-24-12)—for Christ followers—
WE END ON A POSITIVE NOTE !
Welfare has its rewards.
People on welfare get free money.
People providing welfare get free power.
Welfare grows, and grows, and grows.
Not all rewards are rewarding.
Congress, impeach BHOB* now, or go home.
Truth is, for all practical purposes, he has already sent you home.
You don’t stop his unconstitutional orders.
And, he’s laughing about it all.
He’s laughing at Congress.
He’s robbing Americans.
He’s twisting the Court.
He’s playing more golf.
And Nero fiddled while he burned Rome. (and blamed it on Christians)
Our turn next.
Our turn now.
*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.”
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