Change what you can change, give it your best efforts, you can only do your best – no one can expect more than your best efforts and you should be happy that you tried your best. And what you can’t change then accept that because that is the mature thing to do and the calm

I was just going over Hank Marvin’s “Wonderful Land” on my guitar, just before that I was writing an article for a site, and I got to thinking about the test that I took years ago that said that I was Center-Brain. Meaning that the results were found that I am logical, common sense etc

I wrote an article a couple of years ago about holding onto grudges and the damage it does to our day, and also letting people get to us and ruin our day. ~ The example went like this. You are walking down the street and a car slows down and the occupants of the car

Like at the end of Fast and the Furious 7 the guy said when his wife asked him why he didn’t tell her that they were married (she lost her memory in a car accident) “Why didn’t you tell me we were married?” said Letty. “You can’t tell someone they love you.” said Dominic Toretto.

Some people live to be tripping all the time. By tripping I mean looking for parties, drugs, alcohol times with friends, sports, always trying to find that high in life to keep them feeling happy. Being relaxed and rested is good for the soul. Many forms of extreme pleasure can be very addictive and the

Can a grown mature man be a victim of a young female? Most certainly yes! * How can this happen? Take an emotionally and mentally insecure young female, say in her late teens or early 20’s, who is vain, yet meek and unconfident, and she spends years lying to people about this man, but she

By gosh do I know that feeling. Sure seems like they sometimes. But you don’t need other people to show you how valuable you are. Be your own best friend, and you will find how wonderful life is when you are taking a break from people, finding yourself, getting to know yourself much better without

What I learned From Buzz Lightyear! Woody: Oh yeah? Well, if *you* hadn’t shown up with your stupid little cardboard spaceship and taken away everything that was important to me… Buzz: Don’t talk to me about importance! Because of *you*, the future of this entire universe is in jeopardy! Woody: WHAT? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING

But who is to blame? Who did Jesus blame for leading the people astray? He blamed the church. A house divided will fall. What do we see around us? Many doctrines, many religions, many churches, many denominations, all divided, all calling, “Jesus, Jesus”, and all claiming to be the truth and the light. It is

I got to thinking about the “Building your future” story I posted recently. A carpenter was asked to build just one more house for his boss before he retired and because the carpenter didn’t have his heart in this last job he didn’t do a good job of it at all. But after the house

My parents taught me absolutely nothing about boundaries. They were in for anything and us children sadly had to live with the consequences of our parents foolishness – basically as teenager’s and young adults we had no idea what was good or bad for our futures. We struggled and went through many traumas and problems

Remember there are two sides to every story. If you’re not willing to listen to both sides then please don’t be so quick to make your judgment of the person or situation on what little information that you have. To find the truth then you must find out both sides of the story, that is

We tend to, in these modern times, look for satisfaction and happiness from the world, in other words we look outside of ourself. We also look for clues of people we may like by their dress standards, their shoes, hair, public attitudes, likes and obvious dislikes etc. Many people show what they want people to

Let’s say you’ve thought it over carefully and decided to accept all the risks involved in expecting yourself to succeed. You’re ready (self-forgiveness waiting in the wings) to do whatever it takes to set your sights and accomplish your goal. As each of your fears shows up (and you can bet they will) and states

A man of God has the courage to look at the non-believer in the eye because he knows that a genuine follower of God has God with him, while the non-believer has only his worthless pride, so he cowers away to say bad things behind the man of God’s back. ° The weapons of deceitful

Capitalism is one set made up of people who believe in capitalism. Feminism is another, so are the many religious groups. Communism is another,and so on. Many of the occupants of one group also belong in another. For example feminists that believe in religious beliefs and that God is a superior female being, are part

When a person has good moral standards and is a true righteous person he or she would never stoop to doing deceitful things to beat the competition. But those who lack a sense of fairness, and are not honest, and have few true decent standards, will stoop very low to destroy the competitions reputation. The

Being tough on yourself and learning self control is freedom from slavery and loving yourself. Those that care about their own future will learn strong self control. ° Indulging in weaknesses and abusing our bodies is soul destroying and life destroying. We do not gain by overindulging in anything, we destroy ourselves by being weak

Being in love and married: Having a best friend. Sharing dreams, thoughts and ideas. Planning a future with someone like-minded, someone who wants what you want and is excited about what excites you, someone who ways the same for their children as you do, someone who wants the same future you want. Someone to encourage

It is important to remember that when we are stressed, and/or feel fearful, depressed etc that we should encourage ourself, speak positively to ourself, and be gentle on ourself. If we are too hard on ourself then we can feel even more defeated from the added pressure. And if we push ourself too hard we

It is easy to point out another’s mistakes, most people do this. But it is far more useful to offer other ways to do what someone has done wrong without injuring their feelings. There are a few times in my life where I got very angry at someone who I had been trying to help

Because of our own insecurities, materialistic upbringing, and confusions, people can judge a person harshly who has done no wrong except survive a hard upbringing to struggle in the world, because they don’t fit in and are not contributing to society in the accepted way. Lacking good coping skills, no decent mother or father examples,

Have you wondered why we “need” so much medical care, especially mental health care today, and yet 150 years ago and going back to the beginning of humankind people just got on with life? It isn’t that they were tougher back then, it was because they were living “natural lives”. Today the dog-eat-dog world, the

Each and every one of us is totally different from every one else. All the years of education, taught to follow someone else’s rules, being taught what is acceptable and what isn’t, encouraged to join conform into society completely and totally, it all, over the years takes away our soul from it’s originality and leaves

Back in the 1950’s they had “childhood” mapped out reasonably well for the average modern school. For instance they could give 3 examples of how the child would react at school. 1, The child is an excellent student. 2, A good student. Average marks. 3, A student with low marks, rebellious, in trouble with the

When society is based on atheism it is based on material gain, love takes a distant back seat. It its obvious when we see the selfish rich, the poverty, the hunger for money (“If I would only win Lotto then it would solve all my problems”), the wars for material gain etc. The few who

At sometime in your life you may find that people have been told bad things about you and you are expecting them to see the obvious truth in your good behaviour, your good deeds, your good manners and good life. The reason that they don’t see your innocence in your character and actions is because

At certain times of my life I found that I felt like I desperately needed someone to talk to. My emotions had come to a point where I needed to talk to someone very much. But because every time I talked to someone things didn’t work out well for me, I came to a conclusion

Asking for forgiveness: Apologizing is not easy. It is not meant to be easy. One is supposed to feel guilty, possibly ashamed, humbled at the discovery of their folly and the suffering that they have caused another. Apologies are about repentance. A humble regret of past deeds done and a genuine heart felt desire to

When you are dealing with a person, and you struggle to understand why that person cannot understand what you are obviously saying, you need to understand that you are conversing with a label and all that comes with that label. For instance The Christian. You are talking to a human, that has those Christian beliefs.

    As we grow up from a child to teenager we listen to advice, we get encouragement and help from other people. And that is very good to help each one of us to develop and progress. But eventually or ideas will differ from other people’s. Those who led and taught us in the