A Voice of Intuitive Insight: July 2013

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

I know that I will exceed a Thousand Posts

here for my Second Consecutive year. I will, I believe , reach 4,000 Posts here before 12/ 31/ 13.

- Johnny -

You meant it for Evil.

This is a great and valid description of how I was raised. Beating, insult being shrieked at- being told I was unworthy to be a son.

August 4Th is the 10 Year Anniversary of My Nervous BreakDown. They worked to put me on this date with destiny.

I am stronger now, wiser and I am loved ! My Family is not DNA connected to me in 2013- but they are great individuals to be connected to!

- Johnny -

I am in the path of healing !

I am discovering that I am truly FAR Tougher than my current situations and circumstances!

I am a smiler.

I actually do ENJOY smiling.

Be-

I've learned that VERY HARD way- It is better to Be than it is to hide and disguise who you are, especially to try to hide that from yourself!

- Johnny -

This is my 700TH Blog Posting of 2013 .

I am now officially back Again to an average of 100 posts a month for THIS year.

Yes , I am SUCH a Flirt !

It is proof that I am truly an extrovert and a touch charismatic.

This month has been a time ...

of writing and discovery!

I know that I can do

far more than I usually give myself credit for being capable of accomplishing!

God is teaching me to become more . . .

free as well as enabling me to gain the ability to bask more comfortably in that freedom !

I know that 2014

will be a truly amazing and trans formative year.

God does ...

provide a song/ songs in the spirits of every servant of His!

Victory is sweet to contemplate ...

when you know that you are working your way to it!

- Johnny -

America is a Nation that has ...

lost it ways in , SO MANY WAYS. I do not believe this is a permanent and irreversible condition.

I do know that America's Best Days

are still to be found in times to come! I believe that to the core of my heart and spirit!

- Johnny -

I am QUINTISENTIALLY !!! An Idealist ...

I must remember that this is who I am down to my most basic DNA level !

- Johnny -

I am learning that . . .

I can be successfully tenacious and daring!

- Johnny -

Help me,

I must not be bogged down and imprsoned by my past. I do not have the time to be trapped and confined there yet again.

- Johnny-

Am I a winner ?

If I am, Why am I so plagued with so many doubts concerning my worthiness ?

- Johnny-

I do know that I can survive ----

I now so intensely need to learn how to genuinely stirve.

- Johnny-

Believing and acting

fuels progress!

Individuality matters and is worth fighting ...

for! I must keep that thought with me always. If I ever lose it , I will have, then, become dangerously self-effacing!

- Johnny -

I am frustrated and feeling trapped in many ways

... in these fading embers of this LAST DAY OF JULY ! Yet, They also provide to me, refreshing, empowerment and a TRUE and BLESSED way of escape!

- Johnny -

Each Blog Entry I am adding today and EACH DAY ...

is keeping me alert, thinking, witty and participating in The Flow and Center of Life!

- Johnny-

A great Classic Baseball conversation was engaged in ...

while I was in Annandale's Beanetics. One of the unexpected treasures I rencoutered and partook in on this LAST DAY of July , 2013.

- Johnny-

Stretching continues

and so does my quest to live better and to become better and better on-goingly!

Joy is Healing and Restoring ...

Lors, Please beslow Joy upon me as August starts in a few hours.

- Johnny-

Life , Liberty and The PURSUIT of Happiness ...

Neither I or any other American is guaranteed Happiness but we do have the ability to seek to gain it!

- Johnny-

Lord,

Please let me stay in Your Grace and flow as I continue to press forward.

I dream and when I dream

I stay youthful, effective and creative.

I am tired but

it is the tiredness of working hard to be positive and productive .

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

I have survived much -----

I do believe that I will , IN TIMES TO COME , Have the thrill and enjoyment of " LIVING ! LIKE! NO! ONE! ELSE !" A Nod to David Ramsey as I type this.

- Johnny -

Stretching yourself -

Always will be a positive choice. Life teaches me this lesson again and again and again.

- Johnny -

Always give to and empower children

It is an act that personalizes the future and adds to the quality of how we live today as well as HOW WE SHALL LIVE!

Lord, I do worship you today.

You are my creator, savior and FOREVER KING !!!

- Johnny -

My energy level TODAY is . . .

higher than it has been in a while. WOW !!!

The lure of healing, refeshing and renewing prosperity ...

is both compelling and alluring to me!

- Johnny -

Today is imporant

It is never wise to relegate ANY TODAY to a status of unworthiness.

Looking Beyond

A man executed for His beliefs once wrote, " I press onward to The Prize, To The Upward Calling ..."

Today, I am motivated

I am also grateful that I am motivated!

I know that I can . . .

The major question I must ask myself, OVER THE LONG TERM , is " WILL I ?" !

- Johnny -

35 years- It just never gelled

in a satisfying way. That is an OUTSTANDING reason, among others, to move on.

There is a price for sharp- tongued harshness ...

and verbally brusing unkindness, It can weaken a person commitment and loyalty to that individual.

Belief must be tied to committed action

Or else Your " belief" is just a paper thin and unreliable fantasy.

" Speak from The Heart and Be Yourself !"

This is a favorite admonition of Former Toastmasters International President Bennie Bough.

Winning-

It is about far more than talent and ability.

I am now motivated to ....

set new goals. and achieve and SURPASS ! even more impressive records !!!! Getting there is not enough, when I am functions as my VERY BEST, it is absolutely NEVER!!! EVER!!! enough.

- Johnny -

I am not beaten.

Today, I will empower myself to be a winner rather than a whiner!

God is Good

Help me to be a healer TODAY , My Messiah and Lord!

Yes, This is True! To Create a BETTER America ,

There is a need , a great and vigorous need for more of us to be " WILLING TO MARCH INTO HELL FOR A HEAVENLY CAUSE " , in 2013 America !

- Johnny -

One more step, one more stride, a more intense . . .

effort EVEN WHEN EXHAUSTED SPENT and DRAINED, is the TRUE and EVER - PRESENT mantra and motto of CHAMPIONS !

- Johnny -

When you are crawling and struggling, ,

It is best to keep your eyes on thje prize to KNOW that the crawling is occurring now but to know there is a greater goal that you are heading towards. I am energized today for I have such a goal and such an INDIVIDUAL who I AM!!!! commited to!

- Johnny -

Monday, July 29, 2013

My Best MINi Golf Round EVER !!!

10 of 18 holes played were played at PAR! 12 was a Hole- In - One. I love Arlington's Upton Hill's Putt -Putt Course.

- Johnny -

Push through . . .

Barriers fall if you refuse to stop or be discouraged!

When you think matters more clearly ...

You can even find positiveness even in the toughest and messiest of circumstances.

If you worry too much about your age, Johnny,

You will be driven by fear and panic into acting foolishly. 58 IS a number, Johnny !

What is now will be a memory

of a distant place at some point, That day shall arrive!

You do need to fight to

overcome who you want to be. I'd forgotten this during most of this month!

- Johnny -

I am exercising more

as I promised I would!

If you love God ,

You do well to live it out and truly act as if you do!

Running around on Metro a lot

in one day is very draining.

I was focused on being my Own Best Friend today !

That went well.

Sunday, July 28, 2013

My Amanda Lynn . . .

cannot be any more amazing!

- Johnny -

I know that my life is

in transition. I will be freed fro what is now stuck and inflexible.

Be contented, Be at peace

and strive to maintain such.

I must decide to

be my own best friend and thrive on my own company tomorrow, Monday July 29TH.

My Peace is . . .

controlled by my attitude.

You do no one ANY good ...

if and when you convince that individual that they must reject and abandon their individuality.

When you keep those who you are assisting ...

from advancing and thriving, Can you truly and honestly state that you are providing " HELP" to them.

Knowing that there is a future ...

It is best to be as well-prepared for its' arrival as possible.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

I am blessed today . . .

I just need to stop being childish for long enough so that I can see CLEARLY that I am.

- Johnny -

Do not set your capacity to notice " Good and Right"

on narrow and skewed today!

Peace

I must look to be at peace on This Thursday!

I need to find music and soulfulness ...

in the rhythm of this day.

I need to smile more and find valid . . .

reasons to be pleased and contented as I prepare to set forth on this Thursday, July 24TH.

- Johnny -

This month , I have cringed and hidden far ...

I am glad that, in a shortwhile, I will take a risk and a chance.

- Johnny -

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

I know that I make my life, in large part,

What it is, Thus, It is clear that I must make far wiser choices.

I am not a person in a catagory or a cohort -

I am an individual.

I am going to take a risk tomorrow

A life without risk is abysmally sterile.

Joy

not always fun- but lasting and enduring.

Waiting can be a chance

to take stock and to consider where one has been and why he or she is where they are at present.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Lord, Help me to be

strong as Wednesday arrives. Let me do well, in YOUR Sight, on the soon - to-arrive July 24TH .

There will be a beyond now . . .

that will make today seem worthwhile in retrospect.

I am not beaten

This weirdness that is not abating will not break me.

Help me to believe it is wise to ...

take a deep breathe, pause and collect myself.

I must fight !

I will gain nothing by giving up on this late Tuesday night.

Help me to see beyond

what I am seeing right now!

I desire peace and rest

Where is it ?

This July does not know at all

how to be straightforward, direct and manageable.

I know that I can be optimistic

I often choose, venally, to not be so and I decide foolishly whever I decide to do so.

I know that where I am heading towards ...

is so much better than where I am today!

Don't let battles with self doubts ...

end in your defeat and surrender ! The price of doing so is far too high!

Today, I did some push ups- YES !!!

Six Months after being struck by a car in Annandale, Virginia, I am finally regaining a sense of testing myself and daring.

It is slowly arriving but arriving it indeed is!

- Johnny -

Be kind

It does enable your spirit when you decide to behave this way.

Table Topics Is Intuitive Speaking !

Not all Toastmasters agree with me on this. Yet, This is something that I strongly cling to and most ardently believe.

- Johnny -

Move on

and keep striving and striding, Johnny. There is a worthy goal before you that ,while still in the distance. that you must continue to close in upon.

The Very LAST!!! Moment

Why is it that, when we know we have PLENTY of time to get a task or assignment done, We, myself definitely included often waste until the last moment, to provide energy, intensity and excellence to the task that we need to complete and /or fulfill.

- Johnny -

I know that August will

arrive- I just now need to act as if I believe this to be true. - LOL!

- Johnny-

One foot in front of another

The way I will get through today!

Endurance ----

Not always what you want to need to practice, but at times, the only positive and realistic choice.

Saturday, July 20, 2013

July 20TH, 1969 - That First Step

and those words, " One Small Step for a Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind."

Words that shall linger.

- Johnny -

Friday, July 19, 2013

It was good to get

out an enjoy a Friday Night meal at a restaurant- El Guapo in South Arlington.

The benefits of consistency are demonstated here.

This blog entry is my 250TH entry for this MONTH of July!

- Johnny -

I am capable of building a life now ...

that I could not have imagined possible in July of 2003. The last 10 years have often been messy and grueling but somehow they have directed me towards hope, love and a future.

- Johnny -

This is now MY 601ST Blog Posting

for the Year 2013.

Tomorrow, I am choosing to be the change and . . .

to live in the change, that I wish to see become my life!

- Johnny -

Our words are . . .

either creative or destructive.

Be yourself

and do not assume, Johnny, that being who you are is burdensome.

- Johnny -

Trust in what you know ...

is the best.

I know that I can still be ...

who God originally designed me to be. I am certain that it is not too late for this to occur.

I am glad I took a chance

and got out and active today. Overall, This 19th of July has been the best day of this month so far.

You play as you practice...

This is a sports paradigm- Is this also true of daily life ?

Jesus is...

The Name above all names.

Habits- Choose ones that build you up and avoid ones ...

that lead you astray.

- Johnny -

My Peace is from you,

O God, My King!

It is good to get a chance to relax

That has been so rare this month.

Help me, Let me see

the best path to navigate as I wander through the end of July.

I am smiling and

I am looking forward to being a pleasant influence today.

I need to remember

that no day is a worthless enterprise. I may waste it but no day can be validly considered to be a waste.

God, Help to widen

my insights, perceptions and reflections on This Friday, July 19TH.

An Open and Honest Life

is a life that does not constantly need to be questioned.

Presence -

As a public speaker, I believe that this quality is worth its weight in platinum.

Confidence allows me to ....

move forward at the times when I'd truly rather stop.

RG 3 and Bryce Harper

Should they be told to play more thoughtfully and thoughtfully in order to prolong their careers?

- Johnny -

Trust

suspicion corrupts and causes those afflicted by it to focus on how safe it is to be around others rather than " What am I capable of doing" and " How, then can I and will I get that accomplished?"

- Johnny -

Continuing on ...

The observant person notes people and events and circumstances and never stops asking him or herself, " Why and How "?

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

226 For July!

This sets a record for the post blog posts that I have ever made in a month.

I need to bloom where I am planted --

I have acted, very much, as if I am a weed during this month of July. Just because I do NOT want to be here does not mean that I should be a problem this month.

- Johnny -

Push through and eventually

you will be out and beyond.

Thank you , Lord,

for allow me entree into Your presence for eternity.

I need to be humble

and not expecting life to cater itself to me.

Have your way in me. God

on the soon to arrive July 18Th.

Life can be a treasure

if you allow all that you are doing seem like a worthy activity.

I am glad I no longer

let every " ow" stop me dead in my tracks.

I am shaking myself out of the doldrums -

I have spent much of the last 3 weeks deeply within these said doldrums.

Writing as I am this month

is helping me to stretch my fighting spirit.

Trust -

I do not NEED To know every possible detail of a plan and exactly how it is to be executed to believe that the plan will ultimately work.

Freedom is

still a choice when no choice immediately before you seems marvelous, appealing and enticing.

I know I can make it

I can get beyond today and the immediate future.

Vigor or as he pronounced it ...

"vigah" was a word in vogue 50 years ago when John Kennedy was The President of The United States.

Short - sighted surrender

is the act of a broken child not a vigorous and confident adult.

I am able to endure ...

far more than I tell myself I can.

I know that acting like a bad day

now is a cosmic disaster is a demonstration of foolishness on my part.

Lord,

Please embolden my spirit tonight and through out tomorrow.

Late August will get here

as times always arrive. Reality tells me that there will be no magic involved. I must live each day in between. The only question is - What will I choose to do with the days that shall arrive and depart that are in-between ?

- Johnny -

I must remind myself that My Life is...

My Life. I am responsible and accountable for it. I cannot hand it over to anyone else.

I know I need to rest more ...

Worry does nothing but wear me down and corrupt my spirit.

More than 22, 000 views

have been registered to my blog.

I am proud of you today

You were struggling to keep going and, indeed, you kept going, Johnny !

A Morale Victory of Sorts

I have let people know that I have found navigating THIS July- July 2013 - as being most ardous. However Today, A Boost of Morale. The Comic Book Library- The Beatley Library in Alexandria, Va-that I have blogged about before had free comic books available today!

I am happy to note that I gained 26 Free Comic Books today.

- Johnny -

Summer is Going to be Hot - Duh !

Why do few moan when it is extremely cold in the winter ?

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

July in now a little more than half over . . .

Times keeps moving even if it seems that it does not.

Greater Washington DC is clearly no longer

home. It just doesn't fit as well. Just another sign to me that My January plans are proper ones and continue to be.

- Johnny -

Being connected

is what i need to thrive and feel at home in my life.

Some people weigh heavily on you

Being around them is or truly CAN be a chore and a duty and an assignment that an individual might readily wish to avoid. Yet, As someone who wants grace, this may be an opertunity to be used as a conduit of grace.

- Johnny -

I am alive today

That means that possibilities abound.

July has been rough on me

It has really shown me where I belong and where I am no longer at home.

Not moving forward out of spite or hurt ...

is a fool's choice.

I've lost my peace recently

I , of course, am totally and solely responsible for its' loss.

Painful progress is still progress . . .

and it can well serve to make you glad that you endured it at a LATER - perhaps- much later time.

- Johnny-

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Learning to be more generous---

When you are inclined to fanatically and selfishly/ bratilly cling to what you "think" will make you happy.

What helps you to get over your self and decide it is best to change your behavior and attitude?

When you can say " no" to what you most ...

insistently want and then say yes to honor someone that you are dedicated to, That is an act of love far beyond Hallmark I am discovering.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

I am learning today

will not be easy simply because I wish it to be so.

Today has been ...

the best day of this Month so far!

My effort to fight for all I felt I that I needed

clearly needed to stop. I was heading towards disaster and I'm glad I've changed course.

- Johnny -

Monday, July 8, 2013

Be willing to live to love

and to not fear struggle more and more each day, Johnny .

- Johnny -

Trusting is better than...

freaking out.

Do not ruin...

your future, Johnny !

Be happy for Amanda Lynn, Rather than ...

feeling sorry for yourself.

Protect me , God,

from myself!

- Johnny -

I need your motto this week, Johnny to be...

" Think before you speak or type or make a telephone call."

Restraint of tongue and

pen- I need to live by this.

You impress no one when you sulk ...

so stop it!

Not liking it...

These words do not give me the license to be stupid or self-destructive.

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Hope, Trust and being determined to not . . .

let dreams be starved, Allows a person to make progress no matter what else is occurring around them or within them!

- Johnny -

I am striving to be

someone who will be a true benefit to others.

To treat well those who are easy to deal with.

Is to do what anyone and everyone can easily and effortlessly do!

Be Kind,

Johnny. It truly matters!

Love is A Choice and A Decision

I must remember this and also live out this truth.

- Johnny -

Let Me not regret how I have lived this July ....

once this July is spent and history!

God's granted me a Song that The ...

Angels Cannot Sing! I AM REDEEMED!

Wisdom is indeed both

a true treasure and its' own reward.

- Johnny -

Every word I type expands

the legacy that I am leaving. So, I should think wisely of the record that I am involved in creating.

- Johnny -

I am not a victim

My choices, such as they are, means that I have VOLUNTEERED for the life I am living on THIS DAY !

- Johnny -

Free Me, Lord, from my own ...

tendency to be self-destructive and self -sabotaging.

- Johnny -

I must strive to seek to live

as abundantly as I know how to through out this Second Full Week of July 2013.

I want Peace

Therefore, I need to be an instrument and bearer of peace on Monday, July Eighth.

Let My smile brighten ...

someone's Monday, July 8TH.

Help me to not sulk, Lord

You do not bless self- pity!

- Johnny -

I have little choice ...

the Joy of the Lord MUST be my strength.

I can redeem these Days of Struggles

If I keep my heart and spirit both soft and open.

i must remember the power of Belief

in these days that seem to go buy much too slowly. There can be miracles WHEN you believe.

- Johnny -

A reward can be looked towards ...

even if it is still off in the far distance!

I also relate to A Holly Song Lyric

" The Road is long, with many a winding turn ...."

25 Miles to go now ...

A song I relate to.

July has been a long and slow months so far...

for me. I do know every month starts and does come to an end .

Friday, July 5, 2013

The Motto for My July must be

taken from Spike Lee, " Do the Right Thing"

- Johnny-

It is wise to stay with a wise and beneficial plan

no matter what.

- Johnny -

I will laugh over these present days months from now

I most certainly know that I will.

- Johnny -

The Future is too marvelous

Keep that in mind as you go through these days that are immediately before you, Johnny !

- Johnny -

Morale

The worst damage you can do to anyone is to crush their morale. The worst damage you can do yourself is to sabotage your own morale.

- Johnny -

I cannot give up

I have nothing to gain by not pushing forward. Darn the discomfort, I must speed on ahead.

Praise God, From whom All blessings flow

Praise Him all creatures here below.

Have your own way, Lord

Have your own way. You ARE the potter, I am the clay.

- Johnny -

This process is soothing.

It is aiding me to keep thinking and look forward beyond right now!

I am confident of this very thing....

that He who has begun a good work in Me- A day that will be perfected continually and without end.

- Johnny -

Help me to understand

One of my greatest weaknesses is to fail, again and again, to understand.

- Johnny -

The more History you read and take seriously

the less you are likely to bog down attitudinally at ANY GIVEN moment.

- Johnny -

God WILL make a way where there seems to ...

be no way. This is proven, in history, again and again and again.

I know that trusting

is better than flailing and panicking.

Love is wonderful to have

It can cause you to agonize greatly when you are not with that individual of your desire!

It is said that "Practice makes Perfect"

In that sense it is true that the way we decide to live from day to day truly becomes the story of our lives.

Glen Campbell once sang, " You know I need you MORE ...

than want you and I want you for all time."

- Johnny -

Tomorrow will be a day . . .

when I will get to celebrate the value of seeing a long-term commitment fully through. I hope that this is an augur for my future as well.

- Johnny -

Perspective

I've not been with my Amanda Lynn physically/ in person the last two Fourths of July either yesterday nor 366 days ago.

Yet, My reaction to those two Fourths is radically different. 07/04/12 was the day I knew I loved her passionately in an unvarnished way. Yesterday was painful due to circumstances that severely limited our ability to be3 in contact with each other.

- Johnny -

I'm proud to be an American

where at least I know I'm free.

- Johnny-

God gave me a song

I find that when I sing I soothe my spirit and heal my emotions!

- Johnny -

I do cherish my Freedom of Expression.

I'd be MUCH better off if I'd use it far less often to whine.

I don't like shopping

I guess that is an "Un-American" philosophy that I strongly embrace. - LOL-

- Johnny -

Being too clever

can be a way of spinning your wheels. A great deal of activity with little to no benefit or progress!

Sometimes asking " Which is better and...

Which is worse " is pure folly? Either for the good or the ill, The two choices are truly the same.

Candor is a strange thing

It seems to create intense pain and freedom all at once.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

I am looking forward to This Weekend

Saturday, July 6Th will be the true formal wrap up To the 18 Month Prime Directive.

- Johnny -

Superman and Cleveland

Superman's creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, were both born and raised in Cleveland.

- Johnny -

This summer is certain to be ...

a time of stretching. I know I will celebrate the process of arriving right on The Edge of Labor Day.

- Johnny -

Limits are

rather pathetic when you know that you are indeed capable of achieving so much more!

I know that Kentucky

will bring out the explorer in me once again as I will come to want to GROK my WHOLE NEW WORLD!

- Johnny -

The only way to become a better writer is to . . .

write every chance that you can, or, at least so I've been told!

- Johnny -

Worshipping God out loud, openly and publically does ...

so please Him!

- Johnny -

Being willing to adapt and adjust, I find,

is a sign of intelligence and evidence of a true peace-oriented servant's heart.

- Johnny -

Kentucky is a marvelous place to be

When I am there, I seem closer to being in contact with much more of the rest of the US than i am here in Washington and far more than I ever saw myself as such when I lived, years ago, in New York City!

- Johnny -

Trusting that all can be made better . . .

is a way to free yourself from that which may now seem so undesirable .

My parents thought I'd never find love and abundance

They spend a lot of time to do as much as they could to insure that this WOULD be my future! God loves me enough, it is becoming clear, to work to unravel this malevolence.

- Johnny -

When you are free to tell others what is on your heart,

You are then developing a tail, I'm learning, that is rich, fascinating and well-worth telling.

Amanda Lynn Asher Dudley

is my future!

When you look for The Best,

You see that other crave to encounter it as well.

I am a Big Fan of John Batchelor's Radio Show

He is a most literate, compelling and dynamic radio host.

I am a Proud Toastmaster

My 22 plus years in Toastmasters have expanded my spirit and shown me a great deal of how truly abundant life can be.

God answers prayers !

I do know this to be true!

I need to be braver

This is not a time for me to live in a cringing and cowardly manner!

- Johnny -

Fight to get the most out of life between now and

Labor Day. I know, if I follow this course, I will be so much the better for it!

Frostburg brought out so much that is good in me !

What will I be like after I've spent months in Kentucky !

I need to remember to keep focused upon the value ....

of Postive and Optomistic thinking over the coming weeks.

- Johnny -

I am expecting Saturday to be the . . .

first truly warm, enjoyable , fun and satisfying day of This Seventh Month of 2013 !

- Johnny -

The Last Fourth Of July living in Greater Washington....

is less than two hours away from being over. While actually rasther a slight confort, It is actually a small but valid reason to smile.

- Johnny -

I know that the fear that where I am at present

will not end is but a mere chimera. It is unraveling steadily and, by the start of October, The finishline, while still distant will be in sight.

If you an reach the end of August, You will see that there is not one chance that you will spend any part of a 36TH year anyehere in The Greater Washington DC Area!

- Johnny -

' Tis most true - Trust and Obey For THERE IS!!!!...

no other way to be HAPPY in Jesus but to trust and obey.

Not letting the difficulty of the moment crash and dissuade you

into surrender is not Our American way. This is not the way the 56 signers conducted themselves through many harsh and crushing days after July 4Th, 1776 passed into history.

- Johnny -

I did do a little more playing today

than I expected to.

I do know

that time will pass and where I am now will, in the fullness of time, be as distant to me as early May of 2013 now is to me!

Fortune favors those

who are willing to allow events to unfold in all the time that they validly need to unfold!

- Johnny-

I know that better times are coming

A valid reason to be hopeful is indeed healing.

Freedom is a risky investment scheme

You accept that we make choices and you live with the consequences of each and every one of those choices.

I am noting today that even in the best of times and when all is going as it should, There are still rough times to weather and battles to get through and beyond!

- Johnny -

Acceptance is a key

to living a life that I can sustain and live well and sanely within.

- Johnny -

" Johnny 2014 ,

Please do not ruin what I am battling to maintain, strengthen and enhance on this early July afternoon in 2013!"

- Johnny -

I am fighting a war today ...

to be who I know I MUST be on This Thursday, July 4TH.

I am glad that I'm ...

deciding , right now, to not cripple my future in order to attempt to greedily get what I long for RIGHT NOW at THIS MOMENT !

God knows best

If I give into temptation and act to run amok to get what I feel I must have now- RIGHT NOW - Will I accept the ruinous and destructive consequences that my action will likely bring into being ?

Today is a a day of intense struggle and massive frustration for me! God, Please keep me from acting to make things FAR WORSE than they are at present.

- Johnny -

Can you live well today when what your heart craves

is a to have a wish answered. That wish- To be sent One Calendar year into the Future !?

- Johnny -

I have done all that I know to do so . . .

far TODAY !!!!!!! to honor and cherish My Amanda Lynn onj This First Anniversary of our FORMALIZING Our Romantic Relationship !

Yet, As this day is not yet over, I am most certain that I am not yet close to doing all that I shall do to honor This AMAZING DAY!

- Johnny -

I am choosing to succeed ...

on this July Fourth.

Individuals took risks in the 1770's ....

and inspired others by their daring boldness, to join with them to create a nation.

This same paradigm can benefit The US today, if we, as individuals decide that it is vital that we bring this about now " both for ourselves and OUR POSTERITY!"

A Great America 237 years from now can be brought about if we as INDIVIDUAL AMERICANS act to make this possible.

- Johnny -

While today has NOT been the day that I hoped it ...

would be, It has , so far, been rather better than I feared it would be.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

If you trust in what is better ..

You will be more inclined to find it as you navigate through your day. This is a concept that I need to put into practice far more often than I do at present.

- Johnny -

In My Life, Lord

Be Glorified today. I'm feeling shay and overwhelmed at this moment so this brief prayers in most certainly and honest cry and yearning of both my heart and my spirit.

- Johnny -

PS ------

Happy Fourth of July, Land that I Love!

- Johnny -

This is now the start of The Second Year of

The Mandy -Johnny Verse. This is a land of always interesting times- LOL_ to be sure!

My First Full Year of Being with Mandy!

will be completed within the next 2 minutes. Wow, It has INDEED proven to be an amazing and transformational adventure to be sure!

- Johnny-

This has been a Me, Myself and I NIGHT !!!

It is not what I expected this Wednesday Night to be. I still think I've done much to redeem it and make much more of it than I have in past times.

Expectations can set you

up for frustration. Yet, To live without expectations would seem to indicate that one is living a rather dismal and uninspired life.

God knew that it would not be good for me to be alone

I am very much reminded tonight that I am very prone to not respond well to life when I am lonely.

Life is radically unpredictable

We never really know when we wake up what our life will be like throughout the course of that day!

I am glad that creativity is one of my gifts.

Imagination allows you to never lose a sense of wonder and amazement and possibilities.

Giving with right motives is never a bad thing

I know that when I give it is a sign that my heart and spirit knows the vital importance of honoring and blessing others.

- Johnny -

I need to sing more often, especially now.

The Garment of Praise is The Best RX for A Spirit of Heaviness.

I know that Late August is ahead and

that makes this anxious early July night a tad easier to negotiate my way through!

- Johnny -

I cannot imagine what July 4rh, 2014 will be like

for me. I find this simple fact to be both tantalizing and positively provocative!

- Johnny

Belief

is trusting in what is unseen, knowing that there is enough evidence to trust you life upon the FACT that God is and is 100% trustworthy!

I love America

It is a land that focus as much on what we can be as much as upon what we have been!

- Johnny -

The Primary Difference between The Night and The Day is that

The Night can often serve as a time of anxiety and dread while The Morning- The Beginning of the Day- is more readily considered to represent renewal and hope !

- Johnny -

The eve of The Fourth of July is a most poor time ...

to behave as a "Sunshine Patriot" or a "Summer Soldier" when in comes to love and romance.

- Johnny -

Allow that people goof up.

I must remember that no one is perfect and unable to goof- I know that I am far from perfect and that I goof up a lot.

Remember that the Sandpapersih moments

make the smooth times all the more valuable and precious.

Accepting what is and living according to what is ...

can be rather thorny but it does allow you to see where you are and what you need to do next very clearly!

- Johnny -

I know that a time is coming when all that is now

will no longer be true about how I am living . It will have CLEARLY have little or nothing to do with my today and tomorrow!

That day has not yet arrived but I know that I am heading towards it!

- Johnny -

I expect tomorrow may be...

a movie watching day. Not the perfect Fourth of July ,by any measure, but this seems to be what I am best set up to do for tomorrow, as I see things right now!

I am responsible for the Quality of My Life!

I need to be committed to doing what will allow me to live the fullest life possible during This Summer of 2013.

- Johnny -

I know that God is Good ...

I must count on THE REALITY that He loves me and is working to bring out the best in me, all that He created me to become as apart of my being called by Him, according to His purpose.

- Johnny-

When you are committed to someone ...

It is best to ALWAYS believe the best about them UNTIL you have plentiful and abundant reasons to believe otherwise!

- Johnny -

When you overrate the emotions that you are PRESENTLY experiencing ...

then you tend to act rashly, foolishly and say and do things that you are HIGHLY LIKELY to regret later!

This is the battle I find myself to be in right now.

- Johnny -

I can keep going - I absolutely KNOW that I !!!! CAN !!!!

I know that I'm stronger and more capable tonight that I am acting on this late night of July 3RD ! I am just not experiencing in my life the ease and lack of stress that I desire to have!

- Johnny -

Help Me , Lord!

Do not let me yield to the impulse that I'm struggling with recently to GIVE up Five Minutes- Relatively Speaking- BEFORE the miracle occurs for me.

- Johnny -

"Are we there yet?"

is only cute when a six year old asks it. Adults keep making progress uintil they get to the sought after destination- if it is possible to get there.

Not getting there may not be a sign of failure providing that you have done ALL that you can possibly do to GET THERE!

- Johnny -

Mood follows action - A Continuing Saga !

When I let myself get overtaklen by anxiety and fear, I will be weak and hesitant. My feelings are not facts and I can still act at tines when I am struggling to do well!

Freedom must mean

risk as well as blessing.

A One Year Anniverasry

occurs tomorrow. I am glad for the blessing that I've gained from being more and more invested in My Amanda Lynn with each passing day!

Not at all American.

" We can't do those type of things. We are not The Rockefellers, We are not The Kennedys. We don't buy good things, we do not go on vacations. We just get by somehow!"

This is a statement exemplifying what our 43rd President would describe as " The Bigotry of Soft Expectations." This states, in effect, " " We have nothing, We are nothing and thus, We can achieve nothing."

Sadly, This is what I was OFTEN told by my parents when I was a child. It is horrible when people consign themselves and those they are SUPPOSED to love with this viewpoint.

We, too often, as a society, extend this same view to our fellow Americans. Many of those who are provided assistance are asked to live with in cripplingly limiting means and are encouraged to stay there and be confined and constrained.

I think we need, on this Fourth of July, This 237TH Independence Day, to get back to asking people tro do all they can to live their lives to the fullness of their hopes, possibilites, abilities, capacity and potential.

Choosing not to do so when an INDIVIDUAL has the ability to act cannot be an acceptable response from any of our fellow Americans! If we want to be a Nation with a grand future, We all must be contributers to the fullest extent that we can be in our own lives.

If I can make a difference in my life and I decide to not act to do so, Then I am the full reason why I am incapable of succeeding

Happy Fourth of July to one and all!

- Johnny -.

I do NOT Like Shopping AT ALL !

Even after having admitted this, Using Coupons when you are shopping at a Dollar Store - You have got to be kidding, This is what I ran into today.

I do believe someone should design a store for people like me, The Store that people who loathe shopping enjoy shopping in. It is a slogan that just might catch on!

- Johnny -

If you are bored ...

You are then likely boring!

Do you believe this is a valid observation?

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Once I am CLEARLY identified as a HUMAN BEING !

Once, I've typed in the letters that I am asked to type in again and again, I, THEN !!!!!!< should not need to prove that I am, again and again, to continue to BLOG! REALLY!!!!!!!!! NOW !!!!!!!

Most Victims

in 2013 are ACTUALLY self-appointed ones!

If you cannot convince yourself,

You are not likely to be convincing when you attempt to motivate others.

I am in the zone

I've done a lot tonight that I'd rather not do. The road to where you function best is often built upon doing the best rather than what seems to be most appealing, delightful, charming and fun!

25 per day is now

the posting avarage, so far, for July!

The 400 Mark for The Year

has been crossed a bit ahead of the previous plan.

The Goal

gets closer when you are in motion and getting the most out of where you are now, right now!

If I want years with Mandy,

I cannot pout whenever she and I do not agree.

When My frustration destroys what is beneficial...

Then, I am being the King of All Brats!

Not yet,

I want to see how much further I can go!

The Last Post of This July Second

Blogging can be therapy and this has served as my prime therapy on THIS DAY!

- Johnny-

The difference between Adults who do

wrong and their children. You must treat children with more compassion. I know that children , especially young children cannot choose where thet live and how they love and how they got to where they are at this moment.

If I am to be a man of principle, Then, I must keep this in mind as I wrestle with volunteering at The Grace Community Church supported Casa Crilagua!

- Johnny -

I am now set up for a better next two months

POTENTIALLY. I have set things into motion.

I will have 400 posts for this year

sometime on July Third!

40 Posts in a Day

I've set a new mark on this Tuesday!

He is changing me ...

from Glory to Glory!

I am much freer now

than I was hours ago!

I am paid for

He ransomed me from death and Hell!

Great is HIS

faithfulness. Today and always.

Trust is a fuzzy word ...

unless you are active in active obedience.

I've made some efforts to redirect myself

Not getting what I want does not preclude that I cannot make this a productive and valuable summer this year.

Look for opportunities

Do not assume they will be seeking to find you!

I cannot

I must live in Him.

My Strength is

provided by God. I am made perfect in weakness.

Exercise is one way to

remember that I benefit from giving Amanda a better Johnny as I work towards getting ready for my NEXT trip to Kentucky.

Well, I am likely to still

have a better summer than My Yankees are!

If there are marathons...

Am I now involved in a post- a thon!

Peace is not for wimps

It must be actively engaged in.

I dislike typing

but, tonight, it is preferable to sulking ! - LOL !

Praise God ...

from who ALL!!!!! blessings flow.

I do know that

I was expected never to be happy. I must not deny myself contentment and peace- They must be claimed and rested within.

I've now gone past a marker ...

I am now beyond the one year's posting based on one post a DAY mark!

When you have a prayer answered ...

that does not mean that all becomes smooth and cliched Disney easy!

Playing to win

does not allow you to declare defeat until you know the game cannot be won. A bad inning never , ever GUARANTEES defeat.

When you first started this process, I was well over a year

away from exiting DC and moving to Kentucky, now you are just slightly over 6 months away from this transpiring.

You may be a tortoise now but you are inching closer and the finish line is now more in reach than it has been in times past.

I am not hopeless

My Hope is My Lord and Messiah.

The Next time you write a Devotional

Please remember that I do better as a Candle lighter than a be moaner of the thick darkness.

God exist- So My Acting as if I am God ...

is totally insane and foolish!

This summer may well teach me that

I need to live in a wider perspective and be less strident vis-a-vis insisting on "NOW" !!!!

Being resolute is good

Blogging when you desire to sulk and brood, Johnny, is acting to gain rather then sabotage yourself.

Healing is a version of therapy quite often

This summer will be a time to submit to God's healing as He applies Holy Therapy in my life.

The Boy in The Bronx waited

51 plus years to set foot in Southern California. He saw a wish come to pass. Late August of 2013 is NOT- LOL- 50 plus years away.

20,000 Plus Hits

These messages are being read by someone.

Writing is healing

We are all as sick as our secrets and our hidden fears. Placing our thoughts in the open is both healing and empowering.

There have been years where there seem no answers.

2013 is NOT one of those years!!!! You are foolish and acting irresponsibly if you see 2013 as a year of horror and nothingness, even for a moment! This year the answers are - " You will see her in August and Have an Amazing Birthday and Thanksgiving in The Fall." July is not forever and is already drifting away one second at a time."

This Day, July 2ND, may not be all you'd like it to be RIGHT NOW but there have been far worse times!

- Johnny-

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