#36 – Commitment….

#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 up for a long period. If you’re in a relationship, you may not receive the commitment you desire. Don’t despair, for something much better awaits you. Now is also the time for agreements to be broken. Remember that “rejection is God’s protection.” What hurts you now leads to wisdom later.
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Making Choices – Shared reading

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 loved one about where we’ve been. We say, “It won’t hurt anyone!” “I wouldn’t do it if it weren’t for the other guy.” Or, “Everyone does it.” But if we are to like and respect ourselves, we need to live by the rules we believe in. Whether we get caught or not isn’t the point. We cannot hold values and then repeatedly justify breaking them.

What does it do to us if we constantly fudge on our values? It undermines our self-esteem and damages the faith we have in ourselves. We do not expect to be perfect, but we must be accountable. If we are honest with ourselves, we admit our wrongs and reestablish our self-respect.

Today, I will take care to make choices that match my values.

 

From Touchstones

Meditation and Prayer for the Day – April 11

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 carry on. I may have different ways and a different standard of living than some others. I may be actuated by different motives than some people. But I will try to live the way I believe God wants me to live, no matter what others say.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may be an example to others of a better way of living. I pray that I may carry on in spite of hindrances.

 

From Twenty-Four Hours a Day

#30 – Trust the Flow….

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#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 the power and beauty that is meant for you until you let go and ask for Divine guidance. The laws of cause and effect apply here. Don’t dictate what you want, as your wants may be not in your highest good. Ask instead for the miracles set aside for you and you alone. What does Spirit want for you? Perhaps it’s time to let go and turn your life over to the care of a Higher Power. You can never lose when Spirit plays the game of life on your behalf.

Another job in the works…

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 I usually do, I told them I would think about it and get back to them about whether or not I would be interested.  After thinking about it over the weekend, I decided to accept their offer.

I will shadow the regular PA announcer this upcoming Thursday and then do my first games on Saturday evening….turns out it’s a double header that night.  I did have to secure a copy of my social security card from the school system to get the paperwork filled out properly and that took a bit of doing.

The person I spoke with didn’t realize this would be my second stint as the Crawdad’s PA announcer.  When the team first moved to Hickory I had tried out for the job and although I didn’t get the position, I did get hired as a back-up.  I also would help with scoreboard operations and keeping score.

So yet another part-time job has come my way….I’m excited about working as a PA announcer again, a job that I was introduced to forty-one years ago when I worked for the local recreation department as a scorekeeper/announcer…..Round and round the circle of life goes.

David Lee

How Very Fragile We Are….

 

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 could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star, like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are, how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star, like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are, how fragile we are
How fragile we are, how fragile we are

And I miss you…musical interlude

“Missing”

I step off the train
I’m walking down your street again
And past your door
But you don’t live there anymore

It’s years since you’ve been there
Now you’ve disappeared somewhere
Like outer space
You’ve found some better place

And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain

Could you be dead?
You always were two steps ahead
Of everyone
We’d walk behind while you would run

I look up at your house
And I can almost hear you shout
Down to me
Where I always used to be

And I miss you –
Like the deserts miss the rain

Back on the train
I ask why did I come again
Can I confess
I’ve been hanging around your old address?

And the years have proved
To offer nothing since you moved
You’re long gone
But I can’t move on

And I miss you –
Like the deserts miss the rain

I step off the train
I’m walking down your street again
And past your door
I guess you don’t live there anymore

It’s years since you’ve been there
Now you’ve disappeared somewhere
Like outer space
You’ve found some better place

And I miss you –
Like the deserts miss the rain

And I miss you –
Like the deserts miss the rain (deserts miss the rain)