How can I be my own best?

Society teaches the young “to fit in”, to copy others, to do what everyone else does. To be your best is to be the best that you can be on your own and fitting in and the like is a way of dimming your light so to speak. Think of your physical health and do

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Why do people struggle to adhere to rules?

Because rules are another persons views on how you should do something. Safety rules should be obeyed, but other rules, well, many need to be broken or can be broken, and still very positive and amazing results can happen. Like they say, Rules Were made To Be Broken! We struggle with rules because we did

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Torrance.

When I was 18-19 and working on the sawmill logend a new guy got a job with us. He was tall, big build, black and walked around looking mean and arrogant. I didn’t like what I saw and I didn’t like the idea of working with him. He looked like nothing but trouble. I tried

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Your failures and mistakes are not you…

 …they are things that you have done, or things that have happened to you and that you may blame yourself for. If you have a problem, addiction, sickness, issues, you never brought it on yourself because somewhere, somehow in the past someone else or some other event made you troubled, sad, confused, lost, addicted and

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Your Imagination.

I own the album by Brian Wilson called Imagination. The song Imagination has these words in it, “your imagination running wild… “. Sometimes as I go through my day I let my imagination get the better of me and I doubt things, I might worry etc. And many times those words come to me, “your

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Your Life Support.

To have someone to talk to is a treasure if that person can be trusted with your whole heart and soul. Some people have never shared their own thoughts, dreams, feelings or ideas because they don’t trust the people that they are with. To share with the right person is to have someone who will

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If a stronger emotion overtakes the feeling of fear…

When fear is the most powerful feeling in a person’s mind nothing will get done, and nothing will be achieved. If a stronger emotion overtakes the feeling of fear then finally things can change. Feelings of hope, desire, excitement, adventure etc are like emotional engines that drive people forward to having a go, and especially

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I Noticed How unhappy Adults are, and How happy Children Are.

Years ago I noticed how happy children are, and how serious adults are. And it occurred to me that somewhere along the path of our lives we lost the delight in innocent fun times. Adults seemed to flock to things that cause them harm, yet they called them fun times. They might be involved in

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Two Narcissists.

Be careful who you trust: I remember years ago arguing with someone who I was trying to help and to protect. For a long time I was trying to convince this person that this other person was trouble and was using them. But for some reason I could never get through to this person. Now

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I met a woman in town recently who does busking…

I met a woman in town recently who does busking, and she said that her family were not supportive. So she got a guitar, learned how to play, the family didn’t encourage her. But she started busking in town and her family took notice when she came home with money. So they watched her play

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To Fit In.

From childhood we are encouraged to fit in, to be like others. To play nicely with others. To behave as others do. To conform as others do. School demands, tells us, encourages us to be Team Members, to be a part of the team, to be worthy of the team, to not let others down.

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The Narcissists.

The narcissists struggles greatly with getting honest help from people who they have unfairly labeled as untrustworthy. Since the narcissist has always been suspicious of all people then he or she will often not see honesty right in front of them, even though it is there in pain sight. Since the narcissist lives by a

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The Love of Money.

I have probably spent most of my life in financial struggle. A while back it occurred to me that the planet was free, and it was people that put a price on everything. So why was ther poor people? Why are the elderly and crippled struggling to eat? Why do we need charities when the

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Their Insecurities.

Just remember that when people gossip, complain, demand changes in you, and talk about you etc, they are doing it because they have their own insecurities. They feel threatened by your talents, abilities, worth, intelligence, and the fact that you are original and stand strong alone and without the crowd. They are frightened to walk

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Character Faults.

Some people are so bitter, so guilty, so angry, that all the badness that they claim to see in us, is their own character faults. They claim complete justification for their feelings and bitterness. Yet they are completely wrong. Sometimes those that are our accusers are guilty of what they accuse us of, and we

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The Humble.

People who are not humble struggle to understand the humble. They are often forceful and see a person as foolish for wanting to be genuinely kind, even under attack. Humble people know that to fight back physically will just stir up even more trouble, and may even get more people involved and angry, causing even

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The world of materialism has the husband and wife work 8+ a day,

The world of materialism has the husband and wife work 8+ a day, be in the company of other people, then “maybe” complete the day with unsatisfying sex and restless sleep. Materialism is like feminism and chauvinism, all kill the love in a relationship. Feminism and chauvinism are selfishness based on gender. Materialism cuts much

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The World is a War Zone.

We Believers in God are the Hospital. We are a Sanctuary, a place of safety, a safe haven, where the sinner won’t be judged or condemned. They need somewhere to go to be saved from a lost and sinful world. Our work of Love is to take in the spiritually sick, maimed, wounded, and such.

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The Willful Sinner.

The willful sinner will often struggle with another person coming to God. It is not only that the person is accepting Christ, but it is that the new convert is willing to change their Beliefs and means not wanting to live the old life. The sinner/s will often try all sorts of things to convince

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The whole walk of Jesus was explaining to the people of the day what was wrong with their lives and attitudes, and how to “sin no more”.

Huge amounts of Christians today are still Babes and they react as babies who have not risen to the next level of understanding and they keep stubbornly arguing for things sorted out thousands of years ago. Pride, ignorance, or blind liberal thinking makes them lose common sense. In the 1950’s homosexuality was a mental illness.

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The War is Spiritual.

The society we have created is easily acceptable due to its avoidance of anything that causes us mental discomfort and facing the evil truths that surround us in its naked ugliest state. We don’t want to see our believe in the ugly truths so we create a society that pretends that they ugly truths don’t

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The walk with Christ is a hard narrow road

The walk with Christ is a hard narrow road that teaches us so much and our growth in Him determines our inner-spiritual growth to become closer to God, nearer to heaven on earth. This takes time and willing effort by the new believer to become a wise teachable believer. We have to want to change

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The Victims of the Narcissist are many.

Often one person in the family “Wakes Up” and realised that they had a abnormal upbringing, and they also realise who caused it all. Once they speak up, they are often attacked verbally by the family who are still under the spell of the narcissist. A whole different set of victims are the direct family

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