To assume

Assuming – the taking of something as true I am realizing that this is an epidemic…not only in my mind but for others as well. For me I have finally learned to recognize when I have made an assumption. How do I know? Well – it is in the fact that I am reaction within my…

BRICK WALL

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something. – Randy Pausch – Quotesnack.com – thanks! Brick walls??? Oh, we have those don’t we? Sometime we pretend that we don’t, but too often we do! A brick wall keeps something out….its gaurding something for safe keeping. What…

Pretending…love?

Rom 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation… I read this sentence this morning . DISSIMULATION              (pause, think……..) the definition is – to hide under a false appearance. Is is from the word Anypokritos meaning unfeigned. Unfeigned is not hypocritical. See now feign means : to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression…

Rethinking

Mat 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by [his] fruit. Today my thoughts are falling on the way we make decisions. We often decided based on assumption, first impressions, and what we think is right…not what we…

Contradict and live!

Living inside the contradictions – Jan/Feb 2010 issue of Body and Soul Magazine – From Devotion: A memoir by Dani Shapiro This sentence stuck out to me from a recent article I read. I thought “wow! isn’t that the truth!” We are all living inside the contradictions.  Contradictions imply both truth and falsity at the same…

Defects

The nearer you get to any human being, the more defects you see! – Harriet Beecher Stowe -Quotesnack.com-thanks! Relationships are hard sometime, because the closer you get to people the more you see who they are. The quote above says that we see the defects…do you know what defects are?? Defects are our way of saying “NOT LIKE…