Emotions and Responsibilities

"Escape your emotions and you escape your responsibilities. Breathe. Think about your own emotions. 'My pain in my past is a motivator for today. Develop new and healthier passions.'"
Jason - ex drug addict - Oprah show

Too Perfect

"If it's too perfect, it's static.
It has to have some inconsistencies to give it some feeling."
Stained Glass Artist talking about his wonderful stained glass creations.
(interviewed on BYU Television.)
Reminds me of a training session I was in where a bowl of tumbled semi-precious stones was passed around. We were each invited to take one and look at it, hold it, and feel it - keep it in our hands - during the training session.
At the end we were instructed to put our stones in the bowl again.
The bowl was then passed around again and we each, with closed eyes, were invited to feel in the bowl and recognise and retrieve our own stone.
We then discussed the experience.
I was surprised.
I knew my stone immediately - I could recognise it BY IT'S IMPERFECTIONS!
(I instantly realised, as well, that if all the stones in the bowl were perfect, I would not be able to recognise my stone with my eyes closed... and maybe... if they all looked the same in their perfect state - I might not even easily recognise my own...)
As well as those "inadequacies" thankfully and familiarly identified, I could open my eyes and see why I chose my stone in the first place - for it's colour and interesting other characteristics...
Life is Good!
I am blessed with what I have been able to learn!

Temper

"Temper's the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it."

Your Guard

"Nothing pleases someone with ill-intent more than when you let your guard down."
PF 12th June 2010 p1

It's All Going to Come Out...

"Cover-ups, lies, selfishness... believe me - it's all going to come out."
Dr Phil

We Preach...

"We preach best what we most need to learn."
"Luther" Movie

I would render it with these emphases:
"WE preach best what WE most need to learn."
or
"We preach best what WE MOST need to learn."
"We preach best what WE most NEED to learn"
"We preach best what WE most need to LEARN"

Try this: It has been most revealing of me to me -
It has also been most helpful to me!
(I am learning to "Mind my own business"
In other words Look after, do what needs doing in the
governing and sorting out of myself:
The mote and the beam...)

Notice WHAT you are preaching...
Consider who needs most to learn the lessons you are preaching.
YOU learn to Practice what YOU Preach.
BE a Light rather than be a Judge.
"Let your LIGHT so shine before men
that they may see your GOOD WORKS
and glorify your Father in Heaven."

"BE the change you want to see."

I find I "preach" in a different manner
during and after my own personal cleansing process...
Which doesn't feel like preaching any more, rather like sharing.
This seems to be useful to the people who are part of my life
as well as some others who drift in and pass out of my days.

Blessings from God, and me too, on all who read this.

Change

C - Communicate rational optimism
H - Humour - some - is healing
A - Adapt appropriately
N - Nurture yourself and others
G - Guard your thoughts feelings and actions
E - Engage with your loved ones

"Character is simply a collection of our better habits."

Bad Shots

"Forget your bad shots and make good shots as soon as possible."
Harry Olivier
Sports Commentator

Talking to God and the Devil

"Sometimes we talk to the devil more than we talk to God!"
Joyce Meyer

Frustration

"When we are frustrated it's because we are trying to do something that we can't do anything about."
Joyce Meyer

Time-Poor or Inspired and Inspiring

"People are becoming more and more stressed and time-poor."
Vicky White
"Make sure you have pockets of time, and just switch off."
"Create a quiet space for yourself."
"Breathe deeply."
"Be very present."
"Be happy now."
"Live an inspired life."
"Do what you love."
"Live an authentic, a fearless and joyful life."
"Be inspired and inspiring."
"Be fearless and unconventional, and daring to be different."
Natalie Becker
"Life's a journey. Revive. Refresh. Relax. Restore."

Outside, Inside

"Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
Carl Jung - Horizona - Flight Magazine

Smile...

"A man is not very creative if he doesn't know three or four ways to spell something."
Mark Twain

Words...

"Every word we speak can strengthen or weaken faith. We need help from the Spirit to speak the words which will nourish and strengthen."
Henry B Eyring Conference Report October 1997

Nature

"The closer you are to nature, the more easy your life is."
Indian Health Spa Therapist

Everybody

"Everybody is going to want you to do what is convenient for them."
Joyce Meyer

Genuine Righteousness

"Living a life of genuine righteousness is preparing for the Second Coming"
Brent Top

Peace Makers

"Blessed are the peace makers, not the peace fakers."
Johan Els

It's a Poor Rat...

"It's a poor rat, that when the cat comes, only has one hole."
Marcellus Gregory

Backwards

"Sometimes backwards is forwards in God's economy."
"Step out and find out..."
Joyce Meyer