You Can Tell…Things that I Notice in Life

As the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament gets underway, you have quite a few teams that have little or no chance of coming away with the title. Most of these teams are only in the tournament because the conferences that are from get an automatic bid.

How might you be able to tell which teams these are if you don’t know much about college hoops? Simple— does the team have its players’ names on the back of their jerseys. If it is a “big school”, chances are the players’ last names will appear on the back of their jerseys. If it’s one of the schools that is in the tourney by virtue of an automatic bid, chances are all that all you’ll see on the back is a number and perhaps the logo of the company that makes their jerseys.

Just something that I always notice…and no, chances are none of those teams will make it to the final four.

David Lee

Readings for Friday, March 22nd

24 Hours a Day

Meditation for the Day

You cannot have a spiritual need that God cannot supply. Your fundamental need is a spiritual need, the need of power to live the good life. The best spiritual supply is received by you when you want it to pass on to other people. You get it largely by giving it away. God gives you strength as you pass it on to another person. That strength means increased health; increased health means more good work, and more good work means more people helped. And so it goes on, a constant supply to meet all spiritual needs.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that my every spiritual need will be supplied by God. I pray that I may use the power I receive to help others.

Language of Letting Go

Letting Go of Being a Victim

It’s okay to have a good day. Really.

It’s okay to be doing okay and to feel like our life is manageable and on track.

Many of us have learned, as part of our survival behaviors, that the way to get the attention and approval we want is to be victims. If life is awful, too difficult, unmanageable, too hard, unfair, then others will accept, like, and approve of us, we think.

We may have learned this from living and associating with people who also learned to survive by being a victim.

We are not victims. We do not need to be victimized. We do not need to be helpless and out of control to get the attention and love we desire. In fact, the kind of love we are seeking cannot be obtained that way.

We can get the love we really want and need by only owning our power. We learn that we can stand on our own two feet, even though it sometimes feels good to lean a little. We learn that the people we are leaning on are not holding us up. They are standing next to us.

We all have bad days — days when things are not going the way we’d like, days when we have feelings of sadness and fear. But we can deal with our bad days and darker feelings in ways that reflect self-responsibility rather than victimization.

It’s okay to have a good day too. We might not have as much to talk about, but we’ll have more to enjoy.

God, help me let go of my need to be a victim. Help me let go of my belief that to be loved and get attention I need to be a victim. Surround me with people who love me when I own my power. Help me start having good days and enjoying them.

Oh my…I missed it

I was thinking today of when spring was to officially begin for this year. One of the students in my class mentioned about it being spring. But she’s a fifth grader, so what do they know?

Well, turns out she knows a whole lot more than I do in that respect. Spring officially began yesterday and I’m only learning that today. And that comes only because I decided to Google it.

I’m sure if I wasn’t taking a break from social media, I would have fully been aware of its presence. That’s one big advantage of social media – you certainly know about major days and the beginning of seasons.

So today is the first official day of spring for me…I’ll try to do better in the future. LOL

https://www.weatherbug.com/news/When-Does-Spring-Begin