Saturday, July 2, 2011
Generosity and Blessing on A Saturday!
How we live at home indeed affects how we will approach our lives in general.
Pursuit Of Happiness
Happiness----- Is it a reflexive reaction to being overwhelmed by circumstances that are impressive, wonderful, delightful and incredibly to your liking? This would mean that people , then, would only be Happy and in great spirits ONLY when every ting in their lives is optimal- only when everything in their lives could be viewing as being as well as it could possibly be. This is rarely likely to happen on an on-going and predictable way! This, We'd only expect people to be happy when they can honestly is " as good as they can possibly imagine it being".
Our lives, of course, are subject to ups and downs, pain as well as bliss and incredible success as well as disheartening failures. So, This means that we are wiser to look for the best possibilities in all situations, to find good and positives no matter what the outcome Happiness can also come by seeing life as a continual classroom- we are learning, we are gaining experiences, we are learning more about ourselves and we are learning what we do well and learning what we are needing to improve about ourselves and what I can try to bring about greater success and fulfillment.
Needing things to be a set way to be happy is a recipe for sadness and displeasure. Learning to be happy by celebrating the best elements each day and in each moment is , indeed ,f great value and gain!
Our lives, of course, are subject to ups and downs, pain as well as bliss and incredible success as well as disheartening failures. So, This means that we are wiser to look for the best possibilities in all situations, to find good and positives no matter what the outcome Happiness can also come by seeing life as a continual classroom- we are learning, we are gaining experiences, we are learning more about ourselves and we are learning what we do well and learning what we are needing to improve about ourselves and what I can try to bring about greater success and fulfillment.
Needing things to be a set way to be happy is a recipe for sadness and displeasure. Learning to be happy by celebrating the best elements each day and in each moment is , indeed ,f great value and gain!
Friday, July 1, 2011
Lonliness is often a matter of Isolation
The more you focus on what you do not have and about who is not in your life- The lonelier you are likely to feel. Shutting yourself off and bemoaning your fate in being lonely is nothing more than a passionate act of energized self torment.
So, Rejoice in who you are, and in what you able to do and accomplish. Seek to make things better for those who you do connect with, all of us can be gifts to others as we positively use our gift.
So, Rejoice in who you are, and in what you able to do and accomplish. Seek to make things better for those who you do connect with, all of us can be gifts to others as we positively use our gift.
Free Speech
Liberty is enjoying our lawful and proper options. License is seeking to get way with what we believe that no one will be willing our able to hold us to account for!
I have spoken here of why I find the concept of As ----- as I wanna be". This is a life based on what usually will benefit the actor to the detriment or suffering of someone else. It is the way of life of thieves, exploiters and bullies- those who think that conscience, ethics and morality are simply weak and fancy words that do not apply to them.
Tomorrow morning, Saturday, July 2nd 2011, at 8:15 in the morning, I will be attending a meeting of Toastmasters International. This particular Club- GUTS - Get Up To Speak- meets in Annandale, Virginia, each and every Saturday Morning!
I think it is truly great to be practicing American- Style of Freedom of Speech at a Toastmaster meeting on this weekend. Toastmasters asks its members to speak positively with style, grace, positiveness and with a point. The best Toastmaster speeches encourage people to respond to the message they gave just listened to. Each speech is evaluated- therefore each presenter knows that is valuable to be accountable and responsible as he or she prepares their next speech.
Toastmasters and Freedom of Speech- As Mightily American as HotDogs and Baseball!
I have spoken here of why I find the concept of As ----- as I wanna be". This is a life based on what usually will benefit the actor to the detriment or suffering of someone else. It is the way of life of thieves, exploiters and bullies- those who think that conscience, ethics and morality are simply weak and fancy words that do not apply to them.
Tomorrow morning, Saturday, July 2nd 2011, at 8:15 in the morning, I will be attending a meeting of Toastmasters International. This particular Club- GUTS - Get Up To Speak- meets in Annandale, Virginia, each and every Saturday Morning!
I think it is truly great to be practicing American- Style of Freedom of Speech at a Toastmaster meeting on this weekend. Toastmasters asks its members to speak positively with style, grace, positiveness and with a point. The best Toastmaster speeches encourage people to respond to the message they gave just listened to. Each speech is evaluated- therefore each presenter knows that is valuable to be accountable and responsible as he or she prepares their next speech.
Toastmasters and Freedom of Speech- As Mightily American as HotDogs and Baseball!
Mexican Metamorpohis
I am usually feeling dread at the start of a long weekend. I feel that this will be more time to be alone- disconnected and without positive contact and stimulation by being in contact with stimulating people who routinely act to make a positive, truly trans formative and pervasively empowering difference. I shrink at the prospect of taking public transportation to church.
I also be moan not having the gift of being in a fun and nurturing relationship. Most of the above certainly was true of the Memorial Day Weekend!
Yet, I am more hopeful of how I will get to and through the 4th of July Holiday Weekend. I will spend a good bit of time alone and there will be times when the only conversation that I will not have with myself will be those when I am praying or meditating- I want to thank The Astounding " Downtown" Julie Brown- who is beginning Her Term as THE Lieutenant Governor of Marketing for The BRAND NEW Toastmaster District 29- for re-enforcing the idea of meditating in my thinking just yesterday!
I do have a kind person who has invited me to a desert party on Monday- yet public transportation on the 4th might make that a " no go".
This year, The Fourth of July is being combined in MY mind with the fact that I will be spending a very LONG weekend in Mexico on the VERY next weekend- From July 7th through the Early Morning of July 12th. I will be a part of a missions team being sent out by The Grace Community Church of Arlington, Virginia. We will be going to serve the residents of the El Florido Colonias , which is located near the top of a small mountain that looms above Tecate, Mexico.
The people of El Florido do not have pure drinking water in their "town" Their water is trucked in by The Government. They do not have reliable Electricity and are prone to being devastated by flash floods. Most of their homes are tiny and are built using scraps- left over wood, plastic,- what ever they are able to scavenge, In the context of Mexican society, living near the top of the mountain means that you are likely to be viewed as "basura"- trash by the people living down below- you are an outcast!
Our Church first started to get involved with El Florido in 2006. Then, We were a part of a Ministry called Club Rust. They built homes for the people there. They are similar, in many ways to Habitat For Humanity. This is an amazing organization. Our Church decided that we wanted to make a greater commitment to the people of The Colonias- Not everyone was getting a home built for themselves and we decided that we needed to work to bless everyone with in the community.
As of about a year ago, We decided that we would no longer tell them what we were willing to do For them. We started asking them, " What would you like us to do?" This trip We will be improving a small school on the top of the mountain. We will also be teaching classes on health and sanitation. We will also be operating a Vacation Bible School type class - with recreation and crafts as a part of that.
I know that no matter how the 4th of July weekend proceeds that 3 days later, I will be with a great group of 20 people as a part of an action that will well-serve the idea of " Doing The Most Good!" I will act to build, invest and improve. I will be less focused on what I lack, it will be difficult for me to call myself woe between the 7th and 12th of July. I will also learn to apply the skills that Toastmasters has invested in me since early 1991 to show people of another culture that they can make life better for themselves!
I don't know how this 3 Day Weekend will turn out. I know that I've been preparing myself for Mexico for a while. I know that I will be stretched to make a difference for myself this week end! I know that I will be blessed to make a difference that will last in the lives of others from July 7th through July 12th!
I also be moan not having the gift of being in a fun and nurturing relationship. Most of the above certainly was true of the Memorial Day Weekend!
Yet, I am more hopeful of how I will get to and through the 4th of July Holiday Weekend. I will spend a good bit of time alone and there will be times when the only conversation that I will not have with myself will be those when I am praying or meditating- I want to thank The Astounding " Downtown" Julie Brown- who is beginning Her Term as THE Lieutenant Governor of Marketing for The BRAND NEW Toastmaster District 29- for re-enforcing the idea of meditating in my thinking just yesterday!
I do have a kind person who has invited me to a desert party on Monday- yet public transportation on the 4th might make that a " no go".
This year, The Fourth of July is being combined in MY mind with the fact that I will be spending a very LONG weekend in Mexico on the VERY next weekend- From July 7th through the Early Morning of July 12th. I will be a part of a missions team being sent out by The Grace Community Church of Arlington, Virginia. We will be going to serve the residents of the El Florido Colonias , which is located near the top of a small mountain that looms above Tecate, Mexico.
The people of El Florido do not have pure drinking water in their "town" Their water is trucked in by The Government. They do not have reliable Electricity and are prone to being devastated by flash floods. Most of their homes are tiny and are built using scraps- left over wood, plastic,- what ever they are able to scavenge, In the context of Mexican society, living near the top of the mountain means that you are likely to be viewed as "basura"- trash by the people living down below- you are an outcast!
Our Church first started to get involved with El Florido in 2006. Then, We were a part of a Ministry called Club Rust. They built homes for the people there. They are similar, in many ways to Habitat For Humanity. This is an amazing organization. Our Church decided that we wanted to make a greater commitment to the people of The Colonias- Not everyone was getting a home built for themselves and we decided that we needed to work to bless everyone with in the community.
As of about a year ago, We decided that we would no longer tell them what we were willing to do For them. We started asking them, " What would you like us to do?" This trip We will be improving a small school on the top of the mountain. We will also be teaching classes on health and sanitation. We will also be operating a Vacation Bible School type class - with recreation and crafts as a part of that.
I know that no matter how the 4th of July weekend proceeds that 3 days later, I will be with a great group of 20 people as a part of an action that will well-serve the idea of " Doing The Most Good!" I will act to build, invest and improve. I will be less focused on what I lack, it will be difficult for me to call myself woe between the 7th and 12th of July. I will also learn to apply the skills that Toastmasters has invested in me since early 1991 to show people of another culture that they can make life better for themselves!
I don't know how this 3 Day Weekend will turn out. I know that I've been preparing myself for Mexico for a while. I know that I will be stretched to make a difference for myself this week end! I know that I will be blessed to make a difference that will last in the lives of others from July 7th through July 12th!
Was Janis Joplin Right?
Is Freedom just another word for " Nothin' left to lose"? I ardently disagree- Our Freedoms are a pledge , in MY opinion, to work to bring about what our hearts desire and what are willing to work to bring about!
The Rough Road to Escape Wimpdom.
Hello, My Name is Johnny, And I am a wimp. I am , too easily cowed, overwhelmed and give up too easily. While it is painful to admit I can be labeled as one who is the textbook definition of being "Too easily defeated!". This is much, much too much of a burden for me to continue to joke about, find acceptable, tolerate and just sigh and say, " This is just the way it is!"
What is most irking is that it is an easy option to succumb to and to fall back into! It is a way of escape- this is true!!!!- However, It is a cowardly , dishonorable and churlish way of living!
I know that as a Christian, I have Christ's strength and empowerment to rely upon- " I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me!". Yet, That does still require me to be willing, to step forward and to get into action. As a popular book title says, "If you want to walk on Water, First, You have to get OUT of THE Boat." I am also someone who has been a member of Toastmasters for over 20 years, I know that people are constantly being encouraged to move confidently, boldly and decisively out of their Comfort Zone. I have done a lot of this over the last 20 years and yet---- I cringe when I think of how much further along I could be were I only MORE WILLING to be L!E!S!S! affected by embarrassment, fumbling, miscues, goofs, mistakes or simply not doing as well as I planned to do. I will often, FAR TOO OFTEN let such fears and anxieties allow me to surrender, to not attempt to move forward, turn down opportunities, quit in the middle of doing something or decide simply to not begin, to not even make the effort,
I am shrinking myself and draining quality, happiness and discovery from my life by deciding to live this way. I need to over come this living as a wimp!
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What is most irking is that it is an easy option to succumb to and to fall back into! It is a way of escape- this is true!!!!- However, It is a cowardly , dishonorable and churlish way of living!
I know that as a Christian, I have Christ's strength and empowerment to rely upon- " I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me!". Yet, That does still require me to be willing, to step forward and to get into action. As a popular book title says, "If you want to walk on Water, First, You have to get OUT of THE Boat." I am also someone who has been a member of Toastmasters for over 20 years, I know that people are constantly being encouraged to move confidently, boldly and decisively out of their Comfort Zone. I have done a lot of this over the last 20 years and yet---- I cringe when I think of how much further along I could be were I only MORE WILLING to be L!E!S!S! affected by embarrassment, fumbling, miscues, goofs, mistakes or simply not doing as well as I planned to do. I will often, FAR TOO OFTEN let such fears and anxieties allow me to surrender, to not attempt to move forward, turn down opportunities, quit in the middle of doing something or decide simply to not begin, to not even make the effort,
I am shrinking myself and draining quality, happiness and discovery from my life by deciding to live this way. I need to over come this living as a wimp!
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