Speak Your Mind.

[Willie-T]

I want to be more loving in my heart. Written by an old black preacher (who just might have had the BBF in mind)

I want to be more loving.

Often there are good and sufficient reasons for exercising what seems a clear direct resentment. Again and again I find it hard to hold in check the sharp retort, the biting comeback, even when it seems that someone has done violence to my self respect and decent regard. How natural it seems to give as good as I get. To take nothing lying down, to announce to all and sundry in a thousand ways that no one can run over me and get away with it.

All this is a part of the thicket in which my heart gets caught again and again. But deep within me I want to be more loving. To glow with a warmth that will take the chill off of the room, which I share with those whose lives touch mine in the traffic of my goings and comings.

I want to be more loving. I want to be more loving in my heart.

It is often easy to have the idea in mind, the plan to be more loving; to see it with my mind and give consent to the thought of being loving. This is crystal clear. But I want to be more loving in my heart. I must feel like loving. I must ease the tension in my heart that ejects the sharp barb, the stinging word.

I want to be more loving with unconscious awareness and deliberate intent: Unconscious awareness and deliberate intent. I shall be a kind, a gracious human being. Thus those who walk the way with me may find it easier to love. To be gracious because of the love of God which is increasingly expressed in my living. I want to be more loving in my heart.

~Howard Thurman

 

[SarahM777]

sigh. rub it in, blondie.

Hey I still have some grey hair too

 

[JesusLives]

I so much want to be married that long and even aim for the 50 year mark, I just need to wait on God for the green light. Congratulations!!!Every year of marriage is a milestone especially in today's society.

Tourist and I both would be 95....maybe?......Like I said I can hope.....lol

 

[cmarieh]

Thank you cmarieh. It's good to know that one is missed.

Your very welcome and agree with you that it is a good feeling.

 

[oldhermit]

I don't know how you do it, Oldhermit. I have no more tolerance left for the creepy ones.

I was on this morning and got a strange email from a brand new user and I promptly put them on ignore. Then I got a friendship invite from another weirdo who is also now on ignore. They're crawlin' outta the woodwork.

Yep. I get those all the time. I'm just glad I bailed out of that million years ago thread. There is just not a whole lot of wisdom in trying to milk a dead cow.

 

[psychomom]

off to sit with Mark.
quietly.
it's a gift.

good night, y'all.

 

[oldhermit]

off to sit with Mark.
quietly.
it's a gift.

good night, y'all.

Good night mom

 

[cmarieh]

off to sit with Mark.
quietly.
it's a gift.

good night, y'all.

Awe. How romantic. I will have to say her husband Mark is one lucky man to have a good woman like Ellie

 

[oldhermit]

I don't know how you do it, Oldhermit. I have no more tolerance left for the creepy ones.

I'm a teacher. That's what I do.

 

[JesusLives]

I have it, but I want both JesusLives and Tourist to give me permission to share it....Tourist and JesusLives, do you want me to share it?

Go ahead kid....should be interesting......lol

 

[SarahM777]

Good Night Ellie.

 

[VioletReigns]

I totally agree with loving people, but not in my own strength. I want to love like Jesus did. He had open arms to people but he didn't entertain nonsense. And I won't either.

I was praying for "the enemy" (terrorists, spammers, etc.) yesterday and asked God to give me his vision of them, how he sees them. And I saw rebellious children with no direction, or with wrong perceptions, and I saw God's pity for them. His heart desperate to reach them. I saw Jesus on the Cross looking at them...

So I prayed that the world would give them no peace, would not satisfy them and that they would get an intense hunger & thirst for the Lord Jesus. And I said, "For Your sake, God... let their ears hear your voice and their hearts yearn for you!"

And when I discern a creepy weirdo who is sending me straight up odd messages, no dice. And the person I blocked who sent me a friend invite, I looked at their posts first and wisdom said, "No way, Jose!" I will pray for them, but not dialogue unless the Holy Spirit directs me to.

 

[skylove7]

Cmarieh...ur avatar made me go get strawberries and whip cream out of the fridge lol

 

[JesusLives]

Please tell me they gave you all new breakers with the new panel.

Brand Spankin New All but the wires.....

 

[cmarieh]

Cmarieh...ur avatar made me go get strawberries and whip cream out of the fridge lol

I do what I can. Lol

 

[kodiak]

Go ahead kid....should be interesting......lol

give us a rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas, Kody!

sorry Tourist, someone has to tease you and give you a hard time ...I hope you like this version better than the original 12 Days of Christmas....lol (don't worry tourist, if you remind me around Christmas, I will do one that includes everyone from this thread)

I am just going to post the 12th day because the rest is easy to figure out from it....

On the twelfth day of CC, tourist gave to JL
12 speakers not speaking
11 microwaves a smoking
10 camcorders not recording
9 music boxes
8 laptops on the blue screen of death
7 boats a floating
6 drones a laying (as in not flying)
5 golden watches
4 cuckoo clocks, birds a hiding
3 cars a honking
2 breaker boxes
and 1 coffee maker that all broke themselves

 

[skylove7]

Haha...that's cute there Kodiak!

 

[VioletReigns]

Yep. I get those all the time. I'm just glad I bailed out of that million years ago thread. There is just not a whole lot of wisdom in trying to milk a dead cow.

You get weird messages too? I got a very strange one a few months ago (before I grew wise) by a married user here. He's still here and very well respected. There was a strange request from him and I backed out. I reported it but for some reason he's still here. So I prayed to God to re-direct him. He's on ignore now. I will not say who it is because it's in God's hands and I will not interfere.

 

[JesusLives]

Well peeps I got caught up and now I am going to bed.... Rest well to all and tomorrow is another day.... Thanks Dad for this day and be well all my brothers and sisters as we go about our lives no matter if it is off to bed or the day is just starting.....Keep us safe and in Your hands....Amen....

Tomorrow if it is Dad's will.....Blond out....

 

[skylove7]

So did u turn in your second essay Kodiak? Perhaps if you liked it better then...maybe losing the first essay was a blessing? In disguise? As grandma would say. Lol