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Thankful – Day 122

Our cat was lost. Everybody was worried. There was no sign of her. But today after three days she showed back up. I’m thankful to the Lord for the little blessings in life.

As well as the big ones. 🙂

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The Times are Good, The Times are Bad! – Day 121

There are those days that you have that are just great. There are the days that are not so great. But through it all there’s a friend that sticks closer than a brother. One we can depend on and who laid down his life for us.

Jesus Christ, our Lord, our Savior, and our friend.

Video of the Day:

Here’s a video friends and I made. ^_^

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De-stressing – Day 120

If I don’t get my exercise in I start to stress. I just need that blood moving to get the brain moving. Weird..

What helps you to de-stress?

Ultimately it should be our faith. Are we trusting in our little exercises, drinks, music, etc? Or do we have the faith in God to trust enough that we don’t stress about our little problems and issues?

Picture of the Day #120: – Oh yeah, exercise and candles. 😉

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Too Much Encouragement? – Day 119

I’m tired of people being happy with mediocre. This happens to be the reason that Christians are so well known for being so incompetent. Do you want to watch something hokey, eh?  Switch on a Christian radio station or TV channel.  

Much of this incompetence is a consequence of our failure to challenge ourselves. We want to be “encouraged”, but encouragement certainly doesn’t involve criticism and critiquing. If you want to improve, you need to seek after criticism, as after a precious commodity. Ask competent trustworthy people, to preview your work and tear it apart. The Kendrick brothers who’ve been making increasingly better films all the time will send out their stuff to people they respect and just ask them to tear it apart. Over time they’ve become excellent filmmakers. Imagine if no one ever offered them helpful criticism.   What if they were always told how wonderful they were?   Why would they have any reason to grow?

Remember, if you’re going to be tearing someone’s stuff apart, you need to do it in love, because you desire to see them grow. I’m tired of bloggers vying for your assent with their position because they hate your position. They’re not driven by love, just hate.

We need a balance of truth and love. We need those that will be truthful when we do a good job, to offer enthusiastic encouragement! When we do terribly, we need them to challenge us to grow and to improve.

This all takes wisdom. Sometimes people just need to be encouraged with well worded questions and little nudges. At other times they just need someone to get in their face and speak in plain (not rude) terms.

Let’s strive towards heaven. And I hope I love you enough to encourage you, criticize you, and pull you with me.   I hope that you’ll do the same with the people around you.

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More Than Enough – Day 118

It’s easy to complain. It really doesn’t matter what state of life you’re in. You could be a bum on the sidewalk or the guy next to him in his Ferrari. Both people have a temptation to complain. They could be different issues. Or they could be the same.

When we dwell on how much we are blessed I see much less complaining and discontent. Just remember that God has given you life, breath, and Himself. How could we ever ask for more?

We have more than enough.

It’s hard to live that out from day to day though..

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Sunday Quote – Day 117

Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands. -Japanese Proverbs

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Living Life – Day 116

Don’t say tomorrow I’ll start my project. Today is the day. Tomorrow can become a very long period of time. 🙂

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Creativity in Business- Day 115

Ecclesiastes 1:9 – That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

There have been billions of humans and quadrillions of thoughts. People shaping the first brick ovens, people creating the first ink, people creating the first airplanes, etc. There really isn’t anything that’s brand new. Maybe different variations of things, etc.

People are always trying to come up with ways to make money. They sign up for a franchise, they go to college with the hope of that turning into a money making endeavor, they take someone else’s idea and try to compete with them. But in the end, it seems the best businesses are creative. They may take someone else’s idea and spin up to a whole different level. (I.e. how the Facebook movie was portrayed.) Or the guys who come up with amazingly creative ideas like Henry Ford. (And even his product just developed on someone else’s)

These businesses that bring new products to the market can be much harder because there isn’t necessarily a well established market, but with the internet today people can literally learn about your product or service within seconds of you posting them.

Technology today helps those truly good creative ideas take off. Get creative, get smart, and get working.

🙂

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Emotional Deadness – Day 114

I posted this on buzz yesterday, blogger was down…

They walk in and out. Into one part of life and out of the other. As a PK I’ve seen mucho much peoples flow in and out of church. The visitor’s who are visiting for a couple Sundays all the way up to the people who are there for 5-6 years and then drift away over time/leave mad. Over time I’ve found it to be especially easy to disconnect. When you see people who are passionate you remember the other guy who was passionate who now is passionate about how much he hates you. You remember the silent, quiet, and seeming wise one who was really abusing his wife.

I have that tendency of being that skeptic. The one who sees the worst things first. I know, I know it’s bad in many parts of life, especially this one.
There’s a ditch on both sides. I see some people who are trusting of everyone. Here’s my bank account #, here’s my heart, here’s my emotions, do whatever you want. This person has forgotten that people sin and really our hearts are evil and most desperately wicked. While on the other hand you have me. The one who hates to give any real emotions to anyone. The one who doesn’t want to even have a true relationship because of the assumption that I’ll be hurt by it, because “I’ve seen it all before.”

In reality, hoping all things is what’s important. Not being naive, but neither are you some Scrooge (Daniel ;-P).

1 Corinthians 13

Oh love, so hard.

Picture of the day #114:

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Time To Talk – Day 113

Guys, let’s chat.

How’s it going? How’s your life?

It’s interesting. People generally don’t really want to know what’s going on when they actually ask how you are. One time, I was on a phone conversation and asked them how they were and they said terrible. And then I said GOOD. I felt terrible. Oh that thoughtless mouth.. <_< Glad I could be so helpful..

It’s that annoying little thing called being superficial. We act like we care. We act like we want to help. But in the end we could care less, sadly.. If your relationships are built on superficiality and flattery it’s going to fall apart in the end. Number one you won’t enjoy the relationship because it’s based on lies. And then of course people can eventually see through superficiality and flattery. It doesn’t mean that we should be rude and say whatever’s on our minds to avoid superficiality. Conversation and writing takes wisdom.

Picture of the Day #113: I lost this Vlog, and it was epic so here’s a couple pictures of it. 🙁