Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
A hunter and a bear met, and decided to negotiate before taking action.
First, the bear’s version of negotiation, to the hunter,
“You want a fur coat.
I want a warm meal.
We’ll both get what we want.”
Let’s make a deal – – – Iran version, to the U. S.,
“You want to negotiate.
We want to lie.
We’ll both get what we want.”
TRUTH
Your truth, my truth, anybody’s truth.
JUSTICE
Different definitions demand, dictate outrageous actions.
LOVE
Means whatever anybody says, to defend, promote rights for ANYTHING
anybody wants.
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Everything that makes a stable society is
—disdained
—disregarded
—re-defined
—un-defined today
Those who zealously work to re-make, re-name, re-invent—believe they must first destroy existing foundations so they can “RE-BUILD BETTER”.
Their projection sounds like something new, creative, the answer for humanity, for ‘civilization’.
BUT THEN,
History repeats itself (not pretty), and
“There’s nothing new under the sun.”
Sadly,
“One thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn anything from history.”
What is your faith good for ?
What difference does your faith make ?
What do people around you know about your faith ?
Does your faith make waves ?
Should your faith make waves ?
Is Jesus satisfied with your faith waves ?
Is the devil satisfied with your faith ‘waves’ ?
Are you satisfied with your . . . ?
Are you a comfortable Christian ?
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COMFORTABLE CHRISTIAN ?
Unbiblical Oxymoron !
We did not become the greatest nation on earth by denegrading God.
We became the greatest nation on earth by acknowledging Almighty God as the source of our rights and liberties.”
—–E.W.Jackson
“We did not become the greatest nation on earth by denegrading God.”
—–E.W.Jackson
Why do writers of creeds (theologians?) have an aversion to quoting the Bible ?
They ‘have to’ change the wording, make new wording, different from the simple Words of God, or they haven’t done their job.
Or they’re out of a job.
A University of Massachusetts poll in 2020:
A majority of New Hampshire Democrats said they’d rather “a giant meteor strikes the earth, extinguishing all human life” than President Donald Trump win re-election. Yikes.
No change six years later, only more intense.
TDS—Rather destroy America than support anything good for America from Trump.
Wrote this after watching
FALLING FOR VERMONT
(True Texan still falls for love stories.)
I was born in the middle of Texas, and the ‘Heart of Texas’ is in my heart.
I also did my time outside of Texas, so I know even more what it means to be a Texan.
Spent the last three years of college in Nebraska.
Survived ‘up north’, -14° one morning, because I didn’t need a car (walked everywhere in the small college town).
Spent the next seventeen years ‘in the big city’ of South Florida.
Should qualify in Guiness Book for longest a Texan spent in S. Florida (maybe the only Texan—never met any there).
When moving onto my inheritance (in land) became an option, I thought it was better for my children to finish growing up in the country and attend small-town high school (with its limitations, without metal detectors).
Hasn’t been perfect, but no regrets for this Texan returning to Texas.
Please enter TEXAS in the search bar,
and read more, lots more, what it means to be a Texan.
Note the dates on articles.
I wrote all that since returning to Texas.
Can one word say so much ?
Can one word say it all ?
Can one word preach a sermon ?
Can one word write a book ?
Then I realized the book might not happen now.
And the sermon might be too long.
And, maybe there is food for thought in the outline itself.
I want the reader to think, not just read what I think (I do plenty of that).
As I wrote the following notes, two pertinent illustrations came to mind.
I forgot one before I could write it down.
And that makes me uncomfortable as a writer.
I’ll have to live, and write, without it.
Bull—Here’s the winner, that got this article going.
A trusted foreman for a wise cattleman was sent to an auction some distance away, to bid for a special bull to be sold on a certain day.
He was given enough money for bus fare both ways, and the max he could bid.
The bidding was intense, because it was a top-of-the-line bull.
As the bids approached the amount of money in his pocket, the foreman made a decision.
If necessary, he would add the amount of his bus fare home and his own money.
Sure enough, he won the bid and bought the bull.
But he had no way home, and only enough money for a one-word telegram to his boss.
He came up with the perfect one-liner in one word:
COMFORTABLE
That story may not leave you with profound insights, but you will remember COM FOR TA BLE and this article.
Comfortable—good, bad, ugly ?
Do we know what we want to communicate, what we must communicate, what matters most, to the people who matter most, ahead of time, before we know what is going to happen, no matter what happens.
Do we expect to communicate success in the things that matter most, because we will give everything we have (that is, everything that has been entrusted to us) to accomplish what we were sent here to accomplish ? ***
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Comfortable Culture
Comfortable America
Comfortable Lifestyle
Comfortable Military/Wars
Comfortable Retirement
Comfortable Theology
Comfortable Death
Comfortable Afterlife
x ? x ? x ? x ? x ? x ? x ?
Not so Comfortable ?
Comfortable Pioneers
Comfortable Soldiers
Comfortable Seniors (with limitations)
Comfortable Christians
Comfortable Lukewarm Christians
Comfortable Non-Christians
Comfortable Anti-Christians
Comfortable Hell
(and, more meddling)
Comfortable MAGA
Comfortable ANTI-MAGA
Comfortable TDS
Comfortable DDS
Most of my prayers are asking God to make my life easier, more Comfortable.
I usually want others to feel sorry for me or help me when my life is not Comfortable.
Without the sermon (the book) on Comfortable, on all the above—a few words from The Word, the bottom line:
“Woe to those who are at ease in Zion.”
“Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”
” ‘Take your ease . . .’—BUT GOD said, ‘Tonight your soul will be required of you.’ “
And there’s a boatload more from The Book, already written.
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*** “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a little; I will put you in charge of much.”
TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome
DDS – Daddy Derangement Syndrome
In all my interactions with others nowadays, there is an assumption and expectation of functioning like always, when I know that is simply not the case anymore.
It is difficult to reconcile life as normal, that others want to see, and still count on—and life as I know it (losing ground), that others don’t want to see and can’t count on as in the past.
So the alternative is to start pretending more and more, to carry on life as in the past as long as possible—all the while knowing it isn’t real, and it’s not real living.
There comes a dreaded or feared reality when others finally recognize and label you with some “condition” so they can talk about “it”.
That is worse because you become the “it”.
The worst is awareness of talk about you, which most surely will feel demeaning.
And all along you just want[ed] someone to believe you, accept you, and relate with you where you are—not what they hope, wish, expect, pretend, so they can cope with (or ignore) their their own life issues.
And, you certainly want to avoid turning inward and focused on no one understanding—when your heart’s mission is to unselfishly make a difference in others with your wisdom from living.
Nowadays it seems no one under 50? has time or patience to step in the shoes of seniors, with struggles—and with much to offer.
It is much harder for over-busy, over-loaded, over-scheduled younger generations today to be content spending time—TIME—with older folks just to absorb good stuff gained through decades of living.
Rather, they are more likely to apply the lense of their ‘got it together’ generation and ‘much too fast life’—wanting quick answers that they will accept by pre-set default.
They don’t have time to wrestle through issues in life like older folks did, to come to convictions and foundation principles to stand firm on, through difficult, rough, hard times, like today, and the uncertain days ahead.
Where is there room for those in 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, to find change in their life, from time spent with seniors ?
Wisdom is so much more than just an interesting story of someone who has lived longer.
The Bible is full of wisdom, and so are the older ones among us who have walked with the Lord and His Word.
Mary chose “the one thing needful”, sitting at the feet of Jesus and listening.
I urge the reader to do the same, and sit with a senior, and listen.
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