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#36 – COMMITMENT “A TRUE COMMITMENT IS A RESPONSIBILITY OF THE HEART, MIND, BODY, AND SOUL. THIS IS A GOOD TIME TO MAKE ONE.” REVERSED You may be walking into a commitment or contract you will later regret. This isn’t a good time to sign agreements or make any choice that would tie you upContinue reading “#36 – Commitment….”

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.   —Oscar Wilde There are countless ways to take shortcuts in life or to grab for pleasures. We could cheat on our income taxes, excuse a food binge, or lie to a lovedContinue reading “Making Choices – Shared reading”

Meditation for the Day I must learn to accept self-discipline. I must try never to yield one point that I have already won. I must not let myself go in resentments, hates, fears, pride, lust, or gossip. Even if the discipline keeps me separated from some people who are without discipline, nevertheless I will carryContinue reading “Meditation and Prayer for the Day – April 11”

#30- THE CHESS QUEEN TRUST, STRATEGIZING CHALLENGER When the Chess Queen arrives to challenge you, it simply means that you’re living too much in your head: planning, scheming, and strategizing what your future will look like and how and when it will unfold. Remember the saying Man plans and God laughs? You cannot know theContinue reading “#30 – Trust the Flow….”

I recently was contacted by our city’s minor league baseball team, the Hickory Crawdads.  It would seem that a good friend had given them my name as a possible back-up PA announcer for games.  They wanted to know if I would be interested in filling in for the regular announcer on selected games. As IContinue reading “Another job in the works…”

  Fragile If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one Drying in the colour of the evening sun Tomorrow’s rain will wash the stains away But something in our minds will always stay Perhaps this final act was meant To clinch a lifetime’s argument That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever couldContinue reading “How Very Fragile We Are….”