Today I Destroy The Dam, Today I Recycle The Restraints

I really considered a couple strong decisions last week. As always I tested without permission, and failures were handed out. You're almost certain to get a certain result when you fix the rules. The process was as always an unfair series of eliminations, because the undesirables weren't meant to be there in the first place. I hope though that there will be no more of these eliminations, and as with this new resolve new actions must follow.

I crave a grand surprise, an encapsulating everlasting newness, though I haven't left much garden space in my forest. Life can become such a controlled ecosystem of inputs, forecasts, adjustments and contingencies. For life to be truly magically, your living yes your every sense must be alive in unison. It is not enough to work, and be disciplined dead. Come alive, love, breathe, smell, taste, hear, see, feel. Everyday.

Don’t wait any longer. Live your very best life today.

Don’t hold your happiness hostage waiting for some imagined perfect circumstance to come along. Choose to be happy, joyful and truly thankful for the moment you’re in.

You deserve a life that is magnificent. And you deserve to let yourself live it right now.

Don’t put off until someday the richness that you can live on this very day. Remind yourself what a fantastic opportunity you have, and go with it.

You can add unique beauty to life, so do it now. You can live in harmony with your highest vision, so do it now.

This very day, this very place is where you have the good fortune of being. Live it fully, with love, with commitment, with joy and grace, and live it now.

— Ralph Marston

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Never Give In

“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” ~ Winston Churchill

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Affairs of the Heart

'People may be right in their own eyes, but the LORD examines their heart.' Proverbs 21:2

People can find an excuse for doing almost anything, but God looks behind the excuses to the motives of the heart. We often have to make choices in areas where the right action is difficult to discern. We can help ourselves make such decisions by trying to identify our motives first and then asking, "Would God be pleased with my real reasons for doing this?" God is not pleased when we do good deeds only to receive something in return.

JRT

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My Big Mighty Strange God

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” - Isaiah 55:8-9

Only a special being can endure the relationship with human beings and still remain faithful. Jehovah has unfathomable understanding and extraordinary sensibilities, most of all though is his undying love. In His seemingly strange ways He always means the very best for you.  Start Today to follow His ways outlined in the exemplary life of Jesus. 

”I have felt His hand upon me in great trials and submitted to His guidance, and I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.” - Abraham Lincoln 

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