Life verses

I think it's odd that people will pick one verse in the Bible to be there quote unquote life verse.

While I appreciate the idea behind it is so much in the Bible that God has given us that the I would hate to tie myself down to just one thing.

Paul talked about it when the he wrote the letters to the churches. And the when I read it and meditate on it I get that we should be focused on all of it not just an aspect of it.

That's hard for a lot of people because there's a lot of tough things in the Bible.

Biggest thing is love that goes through all of it. Even the angry parts.

Jumping when awakened

I jump when I am awakened. Almost every time.

Typically when my wife comes in to wake me up if I'm still asleep I jump as if I've been scared. It's always bothered her because she thinks that I should be on him and just be peaceful and wake up gracefully with a smile and all that.

I jump and sometimes grunt as if I'm scared and about to attack.

I think I figured out why. From what I've read during sleep the brain fluids drain or rents in the connections between everything or loosened so that dreams can happen and then neurons and pathways can be washed out of certain waste materials. Because everything was looser and more fluid but different fluid also seems like the amygdala or what is sometimes called the lizard brain has much more sway over what the body does. There's no filter over it and so the fight or flight response happens more easily. And because my awareness is down because all the connections are loosened and relaxed my wife can sneak up on me or not even try and suddenly appear inside my circle of awareness and I get that jolt of all we get to run and my body starts to do that before I go now where okay relax.

It's a theory. Don't know if it's right but that's what I've read and that seems to fit my behavior. What's funny is this morning I did it right after waking up. I was standing in the bathroom doing my business. My wife suddenly walked in and I jumped as if I was scared and I was about to leap in action. I think it's the same thing the connections just hadn't been established. I was drinking my glass of water trying to get everything running and still reacted to the surprise as if I was asleep.

Interesting!

Getting dirty

Getting dirty.

For email coaching and possibly one Americans way

One of the things that I've noticed about different leaders is that some are willing to get dirty and get down in the middle of whatever's going on and some are above it all.

I had one of my coworkers was working and an incident happened between two people at work. While my coworker was in charge. When the incident was brought to me I told the two supervisors that were working that they needed to go ahead and type of statements on what had happened for the investigation. And then I went to my peer and asked him to type up a statement on what happened. He got very defensive and asked why me and said he didn't think he needed to do it because he wasn't even there. And I said but the individuals that were involved came by and talk to you about it and I need you to write a statement for the investigation. If you're not going to do that we may need to take this higher.

This individual is the the type of manager that is politically connected and wants to move up faster than he is moving up. He doesn't want to get anything on him that's the negative or may slow them down. And so whenever things like this, P tends to sweep them under the rug or stay uninvolved and handed off as quick as he can so that he's not associated with the investigation at all.

I tend to be one of those that gets right in the middle of everything. I worked my way up from the lowest rung to this mid-level wrong that I'm at now. I enjoyed most of it and still enjoy getting in the middle of whatever is happening at work. And so I relish the thought of getting involved in an investigation and actually getting to tell my side of the story, however small my side might be.

Sometimes that's the way it is with the other things like our work in the church. Some people don't want to get dirty at all and don't get down in the middle of what's going on and stay at the higher level of planning and organizing. Some people only want to do the work and don't want to get involved in the the politics of organizing things and crossing organizational lines even in a church like ours. But we need to be open to whatever God is leading us to do and be ready to do it when the call comes.

I like getting dirty that! It's like being a kid with God overseeing everything. Stopped open in the puddles David! Don't get that money on anybody else or splashing people as I left hysterically. That would be pretty funny to see an. But I just think getting dirty is part of the deal.

Jesus got dirty. He slipped out under the stars and with his disciples. He walked the trails and the roads in went to the well. He went to the graveside and called Lazarus out. Even carried his own cross so that he could die for us on. Jesus got very dirty by coming down and living with us.

I think that's part of the deal!

Coffee concoction

My current coffee concoction

I like to use the Starbucks instant coffee but also any cake up cure egg coffee things.

A spoonful of hot chocolate.

A package of mushroom coffee, preferably lion's mane mushroom and child a mushroom. The lion's mane helps me have more vivid dreams.

A teaspoon of brain octane oil. A teaspoon of honey.

Hot water from the cure egg. Stir it up and enjoy!

I'll also sometimes put in a pat of butter in it but haven't been doing that lately.

Time to watch

I don't understand how all these people have time to watch all these shows.

I barely have time to watch one show with my wife a couple times a week. But that I do work a couple of evening shifts a week and we don't sit at home and just stare at the TV and have Netflix playing continuously. I prefer to have beautiful pictures or pictures of the family or whatever instead of Netflix murders rapes gay sex and all that other stuff.

Protect your mind

I read a story recently about a man that watched certain types of videos on YouTube to the point that he became paranoid that people were after him. Then he started killing people.

The Internet is a cornucopia of knowledge and wisdom, but with all that bounty comes the other stuff like garbage, debauchery, filth, and other judgemental words to describe the bilge washing around us in the sea of knowledge.

A teenager I know recently told me about how he used videos to purposefully make himself sad to the point of crying. He has it so good in life that he has to try and induce depression. Wow!

Protect your mind. It'll help you a lot in the long run...

Little is new now

It's one of the things that I've noticed as I get older: things are no longer new. When I was young I would buy something and it would be new and I would attempt to figure it out. Find just the right place for it. Plug it into whatever my daily routine was or needed to be. And I would be so excited about having something different. Or I'd be annoyed. Or whatever.

But now that I'm in my 50s I don't buy very many new things. I buy replacement things. And that's a different kind of thing.

The flagpole for the front porch, for instance. We have several flags that we like fly for different seasons. They're very decorative, and each one helps make the house more festive from the outside. Christmas, spring, summer, birthday, all sorts of flags. But the flagpole wears out. The wood gets old and breaks. So I get a new flagpole. It's not new except to me. The same thing that I was doing before. It's just newer.

Cars are another example. You can get all the extras and get all the creature comforts but in the end it's four wheels and an engine with a box around it to carry you from place to place. Fast. Great stereo, cool windows, colors, comfortable seats, shape and size, it's all just a car. Or truck, or motorcycle, or whatever.

Food is another. I get to where I like certain kinds of food. Then my wife will introduce something new and tell her I don't really like it. But I like it enough to try it again. Then when I get to where I'm eating it on a regular basis. But it's just food. Fuel for the body. Something I have to cut back on so that I don't get more overweight.

I guess it's one of the wonders of life. As I get older and more experienced there's less new so I have to instead of being happy and thrilled to find joy in the adapting and the continuing.

Cool!