Life in Detail

I came upon a realization today. People can be viewed in two basic lights, based on how they view life. There is a basic thought and deciscion making process that leads people, who are exposed to identicle catalyst, to react in different ways. This leads people to diferent destinatons even though they are presented with simular backgrounds. Basically life is like viewing an impressionist painting. Some see the beautiful painting, the scene the collors the captuing of life. Others see the individual dots or brush strokes. Some see the picture and some see the strokes. Obviously most say we must see the big picture; I present however that the artist sees the strokes. So life is in the big picture but the big picture is of the details. We should know the vision of our life, and those that realize that vision also have a grasp on the details. To quote Steven Covey "A goal is a dream with a deadline."

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2M

Success is found in the second mile. The enemy of greatness is not evil but average . We are not those who stop when things get tough, but instead those who use the friction of resistance to chose correct choices that make us tougher; that in turn enables us to change the world.

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Farewell

What a sad commentary on our modern society, when an indivdual who has built a successfull life on conservative moral values, is labeled as extreme. Ironically if such an individual would have varied in the implamentation of their moral stance, they would have been labled as a hypocrite. Therefore our modern majority society is not actually interested in hypocrisy, honesty or morality, but more into conformity of opinions that excuse slobbish self-centered behavior.

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i hear God

We came upon this statue today. It was a bronze sculpture of Jesus teaching college students. My son Zadok immediately said, "Look its Jesus!” It was very neat that he knew with immediate familiarity the image of God. I read the caption "The MasterTeacher". My son then said to me "I hear God, but I hear Him all over the world"; my daughter Natasha wanted to touch Him and look into His eyes. How cool.

Fearless Happiness

It is amazing the simpe joys you can experiance when you expell fear fom your life fear is like a weed if you let it in at all it will spread to bigger more important areas. The fear of rats or spiders can open a door in your life for fear of people or future which can be disableing. 2 Timothy 1:7 GOd dosent give us fear but power. So we should not fear, anything, live in power and love life.

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Rainny AM

Son enjoying a brief stand in the rain, on a rainny Monday morning. Simple joy.

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Lust, Flesh, Pride & Eyes of Life

Man I love this song. It was written in the early 80s by the 77s (Mike Roe and co.) It is a song that comes from the Bible, 1 John 2:16 and reads:" For the World offers only the lust for physical pleasure, the lust for everything we see, and the pride in our possessions. These are not from the Father. They are from this evil World."

How true. How many times do I find myself worn slick trying to obtain things that will make me "feel" better or to get more stuff or to make others think better about me. If God wanted me to care about what people thought He would have given me the ability to read minds. Basically, live for a higher purpose not our own lives; this is the meaning of life.

Philippians 2:3-4 says "Don't be selfish, don't live to make a good impression on others. Be humble thinking of others as better than yourself. Don't think only about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and what they are doing"

I can't get distracted by me. I need to focus on God by focusing on his creation which are all those around me. If want to help God I do that by helping man. Like Mathew 25:40 says I only love God as much as the person I like the least.

Courage

I had a coach tell me once; "Courage is not the lack of fear, but doing the rite thing in spite of fear". What a great lesson. Many times there is the thought that something I want to do or need to do is too big or out of reach, but it is the rite thing to do for my family, friends, co-workers, humanity or myself. Very often the enemy of good is not evil but laziness and self centered-ness. Another great quote, which goes with this, is "All that is required for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing". I must constantly remember that good is required of me, it must be active and take effort and be based on a solid inner knowledge of what is good. Then I must act out good, even when it seems confrontational, objectionable or detrimental to me. I must do rite even when faced with fear; override my emotions with knowledge of truth. I must have courage.

The Drive Home

I have a nice drive to and from work each day. Each way is about 45 minutes. The drive takes me through the rural Oklahoma countryside. Along the way i have the opprotunity to take in many interesting sites; farms, horses, little leage baseball games and the like.

Last night i saw a long chain of large ambiguously shaped vehicles traveling in the opposite direction under police escort. I called my wife and we had fun jokingly speculating as to what they may have been. Today on my way home the image became clear; i passed the escorted convoy of STREET SWEEPERS. Funny if not slighty anti-climatic.

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Mobile xion 1

I want to test out mobile blogging.

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Q

Motorola Q + Sprint = Cool Time . I was able to Surf the Net, Listen to music and work on a Excel all at the same time.