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Who Is Looking Out For You?

I wrote this in my personal journal and wanted to share it here. I am going to redact the name of the book I was reading because this isn't a criticism of the book. I made a note of the book for my own future reference. It's also not about the book as I've read some good things in there and I'm only on page 27 or so. The thing is that I have heard stuff along these lines from pastors and others in the church. For me, this usually sounds like: put others before you and ignore yourself and your needs. As I share the Bible verses below, we are told to love our neighbor as  ourselves.    I left to go and read and was making notes on some things as in one instance, I made a note on the side that suppression is not good; lack of ease of expression is dis- ease as she was saying not to vent emotion.  but there is something I disagreed with so strongly that I wrote “I disagree…” before the rest of the stuff  and wanted to write here: God wants us to be sensitive to the...
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The Doctrine of "Alignment"

 That's what I'm calling it. If you have another term for it, please share it in the comment section. Was it this past weekend? If it wasn't, then it was likely sometime last week. I was scrolling through my feed on Facebook - which I don't frequent, and saw a video by an old mate of mine. For some reason which I can't explain because I usually don't bother with such things, I unmuted it. The videos show up muted so I usually don't hear what's on it. When I unmuted it, the person was saying something that went something like this: '~you must bring yourself into alignment for God to...." I immediately got out of there. I really haven't figured out what the purpose of their video was. it seems they started a real estate company but what I heard was preaching. Granted I heard something like 'most people think...' and if memory serves me right, they were saying something along the lines of people think it will just happen if God has purp...

Don't let a setback hold your back...

 ...because a setback is not a holdback. So I mentioned vaguely in my Saturday night post that I had something done in the morning only to have it undone  just minutes later. It was something I had waited so long to do and I was finally happy to see it accomplished. And I paid a pretty penny to the workers who did it on the side for me. This is a part of what I wrote on Saturday: This morning, I got caught in a one thing scenario. I had looked at all that had happened and I was happy with it and moments later, I decided to pursue this one thing I didn't need and could've let it be. My friend said:  to look on the bright side, "you'll learn a new skill".  (You can read the full post here ). I was striving for perfection and in trying to do so, I dissembled the whole thing. Well, I had reached out to someone and asked what his company would charge to have someone come help. And they were here this morning and it was done so quickly that by 0830, it was fixed. This ...

You Reap What You Sow

The Evil That Men do...  Sumo had an exciting ending today. I mean exciting! So much so that I am so excited – it elevated my mood by 1000% and I was just laughing and just expressing myself at what I watched.  First, I wondered who was the last Rikishi to fight Hosh and realized I had not seen Wakamotoharu . Sure enough, it was him. It’s interesting how I keep a banzuke in my head and realize who I have not seen. Yesterday or the day before, I thought to myself that I didn’t see Midorifuji and Daiesho and when I rewatched, it turned out that they fought each other when I got up for a brief moment. I tend to learn from Sumo so I'm going to share one of my Sumo Lessons today. Well, why was today’s final match exciting for me?  Let me give a little history here:  In the last tournament, Hoshoryu , the Yokozuna , side-stepped Wakatakakage , who was a Sekiwake at that time – the third highest rank. Yokozuna is the highest rank. A side-stepped is called a “ Henka ”....