life lesson # 4

I recently heard a speaker and they said one of the most important things they had ever learned were their ABC's.

You know your ABC's right???

ALWAYS BE CONFIDENT and if you don't feel confident--FAKE IT, no one will know the difference.

today, my alarm did not go off and I missed an important train to be in DC for a mtg with my boss @ 8:45. I will be one hour late....my confidence was shattered.
2 things---
I assessed the worst case scenario and realized I would be an hour late and there was nothing I could do about it and I faced it head-on. My fault, no excuses.
Instead of skipping my morning prayer with my wife I made sure we prayed. I felt 1,000 x's better after we prayed.

and I am practicing life lesson # 4 all day---faking the confidence and after a bit I am sure my natural confidence will resurrect itself.

what i am reading

According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.
For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work.
If any man's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.

if you check here (theblog).....can you tell me what the bolded/italics part means?
from 1 Corinthians 3

I have my thoughts...curious as to yours.

tv---today's idol?

The 1st time I saw a color television was in 1967; I was 6 years old and had walked 1/2 a block to my friends house to ask him to come outside to play. I knocked on the door and he agreed to come out, but had to put on his sneaks so he asked me into his living room where it was very dark and in the corner was the tv with the Flintstones on and for the first time I saw a color television---Fred's suit was NOT grey, but ORANGE and Dino was PURPLE---WOW!!! When I got home I excitedly told my parents of this NEW contraption and I don't really remember much after that.

When my beautiful wife and I got married in 1982 we lived in an apartment with dreams of a family and a house and in order to establish credit to eventually get a house and those wonderful things called credit cards we needed to establish credit at ground level....this meant going to Strawbridge and Clothier where my wife's dad worked part-time and buying a 19" Sony TV (they were just about all color by now). The deal was if we got approved for a 30-60-90 day credit program...then we will have started the wonderful credit lifestyle. But we had to pay off the TV in that time period or else...I am not sure what "or else" was, but it wasn't good! So for 600 dollars we established our credit. This wonderful credit has it's purposes; good/bad, but today we have a house and today we looked at the amazing Panasonic TH50PZ85U for a mere 2,150 dollars on sale with no interest for 36 months if you don't miss a payment.

So....what have I become?

Really....who and what am I to spend the money on something like this?

No, I haven't pulled the trigger just yet, but I am about to....I think......

Stuff like this really drives me crazy----for 2,150 we could support SIX Compassion International kids and make a real difference in the world at least for them..... or me?

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illegal food

one of those slices is just downright illegal in all 50 states! Pizza w/cheesesteak topped with fries---love pizza, love GOOD fries and love a good chstk....but all together now?

Yuck!!!!!

long days

a fella sat down across from me after boarding the train....."how you doing, sir?" he asked me......"fine thank you, sir"....I replied "and you?" "L O N G D A Y", he said with a sign......gosh I thought.....long days should be treasured as extra special.....use your days wisely for they are numbered.

life 101

people

can you HEAR ME??

PEOPLE MATTER


life is nothing---I think Solomon said it first, but let me reiterate it......

meaningless, meaningless, meaningless
life is meaningless--what does man get when he toils all day?

keep toiling it keeps you fed....but then take a breath and see someone, talk to them, change their world......for Him.

show love, be love, give love
EXPECT NOTHING
and you will have everything....everything
there is nothing here that I want
what I want is later.....till then, love you, tater

on top of the world

being on top of the world ='s winning the NBA championship?

being on top of the world as KG said late Tues nite is not necessarily winning the world championship game for the NBA....it is....knowing the TRUTH of the world in Christ.

I am not a perfect man or christian by any stretch.....but I know WHO I am and what I believe.

if being on top of the world is equal to winning the NBA championship this 45 year old man (me) will not ever see the top of the world.

But yet I have...seen and am living on top of the world----the truth, the way, the light---Jesus Christ who's name is so commonly used---but I say it with reverence and righteousness.

will you say it too?