10/16/2020 Delaying Tactic

 

    My pickup truck's  bed is in need of replacement.  Having sustained multiple hits and rust damage. Last year, I needed some extra money.  I was in this nursery yard's loading section, getting a load of mulch.  The operator of the big pay loader was getting ready to dump the mulch into my bed. When all of a sudden it lurched forward and smashed into the side of my truck. It then rolled back 5 ft and again it lurched forward and hit the truck in the same spot.  The truck sustained a mega ding in  it. The truck's bed was stoved in 6 inches over a 3 ft area. The owner  of the garden place comes out. I tell him how about a thousand. He shakes his head no. 500 he says. How about 750 then. 500 says he. 600 says I. 500 says him. 501 says I.  Deal says him. I walked out with 501 cash. The extra money I was looking for. Thank-you  spirit!

    A couple weeks ago, my truck broke down for 2nd time in a week. First time it was the battery, 2nd time it turned out to be the alternator ( the doohickey that charges the battery while driving). The truck broke down 2 miles near my house at a service station. Spirit delayed my breakdown from earlier in the day when I would have been further away from my house and costing me more money for a tow.

    I was going to buy this house with all its contents. I went to the house to make the down payment but the day before it rained hard. When I got to the house all looked good. I decided to look in the crawl space where last week it was bone dry today the water was up to the floor joists. The deal is off says I. Thanks spirit for the fortuitous  thunder storms!

    When you are delayed for some reason, you are in a new time zone. Just proceed forth without being in too much of a hurry in trying  to make up for the lost  time. Try to focus where you're  at. One day my father was getting ready to Move, he had a lot on his mind and wound  up getting in a fender bender at the bank.

   In making big decisions wait at least 3 days before making a decision.  Use other people suggestions, your own dreams and your own research. Then ma k e  the decision.  If you want things to change.it is you that starts the ball rolling. 

10/03/2020 Democracy

 

    Democracy is a precious gift that we here in the US have given ourselves.  It didn't  come cheap. Many sacrifices were born by many colonists.  They defeated the number one military power in the world. It only happened because of God lending his hand behind the scenes help. George Washington was trapped on Long Island NY in 1775. Situation was dire for the colonists. The lit candle  was about  to be snuffed. Then out of nowhere a dense fog enveloped the area. Washington with the help of Massachusetts  sailors was able to escape using fires placed many feet apart to make the Brits think that he was still there and big row boats to ferry his soldiers to Manhattan.  God brought the fog at the right time and place. Another  situation developed  in Pennsylvania when George Washington  was out conversing with 2 other officers early  in the morning.  Unbeknownst  to George a British sharpshooter had him in his sights, he didn't  know it was George. He had his finger on the trigger, but he couldn't  pull it. He said he couldn't  shoot because he felt that it wasn't right to take someone   down when they were no threat. Just  maybe  it was God speaking to him  (the British soldier)  very softly in the morning  light. George would also have musket balls tear through his cloak throughout the war, never sustaining a major wound. God was on his side. George was part of God's master plan for the human race. Which is still unfolding to this very day. Today democracy hangs in the balance. What will you do to keep the light of democracy  burning. Democracy  is about empathy  for ones fellow citizen.  Look out for your self and once in awhile look after the ones who don't  have it as good as you.

    I like this sentiment a rising tide raises all boats.

10/01/2020 Contagion

 

    Covid 19 and now the start of the flu season. Plus indirect effects from the contagion could possibly see 1 million American  deaths by the Spring of 2021.  Get your flu shot now and listen to the scientists and doctors. Also ask spirit for it's help.

God help us.  Which I believe  God does. 

9/26/2020 Ahh No Charge

 

    I just left Target, got into my truck turned the key and get a click click. This truck is going nowhere fast. I did have a prior warning though, it had a little hesitation early in the morning when starting the truck but it did roar to life. And it did start up  the next 5 times until the 6th time. Damn. Another day not making money.  No good.  Pop the hood and try my little trick of banging on the terminals with the handle end of  a big screw driver.  Worked many times for me before. Not this time however. The battery says it is a 6 yr battery and in two more months it will be 6 yrs. They do know their batteries. Six months before your battery hits its life expectancy I suggest you replace it now. Or you will be pondering your next move like me.  Next move was get a new battery.  Call up auto part stores, 100 bucks and up too much. I try junk yards. Way better 30 to 50  dollars for my battery. Call my wife jump in her car half hr later get to the yard and paid 30 bucks. The guy put a tester on it that places a load on battery which drains it and then I saw it return to 12 volts after the load is removed. When he did it to my old battery , there was no recovery.  Got it back in truck started right up. But the day was done.

    It's  now a week later.  I start it up and there was a just a hint of hesitation.  But it started.  I notice that the battery gauge is hitting 12 volts. Too low, the alternator should be charging the battery to the tune of 15 volts. Come to the traffic light the truck dies. Flashers aren't  working. I get out of truck and push it via the door frame and steer it walking alongside it. So I'm  trying to enter the right lane, and 2 people sneak past me in their cars, I can't  hit the brake... some people. I get the truck off onto the side road and there's a little rise into the gas station parking lot.  I'm  now in the driver's seat look in the rear mirror and there's a young guy pushing me with his hands on my tail gate. The truck's  too heavy to get it up the rise. The young guy says he'll  pull it up the rest of  the way with his truck and a strap it works fine. I walk to close by auto part store. Talk to guy says if vehicle is running and motor cuts out it's  probably the alternator. Go back to service station tell him to replace  alternator. 225 bucks..... ouch! Call my neighbor, who happened to be home, thanks spirit. He came and got me. The breakdown occured near home and not 10 miles away where I was a half hr later. Thanks to spirit it was closer to home. Plus I broke down at the gas station. All these little coincidences helped me immensely.  Thanks to spirit. The truck episode developed over 2 weeks. Spirit brought  me through it, step by step. My part was to keep pushing forward, thinking how to fix my problem  and spirit helping me behind the scenes.

9/17/2020 The Potatoe

 

    I read this article recently by a holocaust  survivor..  His name is Ernie Gross. What he went through was unimaginable  evil. There were people there that gave up and the others looked for way to survive. He tried to survive. He said that the only way for him to survive was to unlearn his selfish survival skills.

   To do that he had to do acts of generosity and charity, this enabled him to retrain his brain. He said   "if you don't  forgive, it means your angry. If you forgive, your body can relax and you keep on functioning."  He concluded with " Don't  lose hope tomorrow  can be better, that is why I'm  91 and still here."  When he was doing work cleaning train station toilets he would pickup cigarette  butts, he needed 7 to get a quarter of a potatoe from his fellow prisoners.  Those 7 butts were hard to come by.  Those pieces of potatoe  and his generosity or kindness are what kept him alive. 

    I told this story before. How a camp prisoner caught a glimmer of himself in a mirror. He was a scowling mess, he looked like the camp guards and prisoners. He said to himself, I don't  want to be like that. So he changed his ways. His countenance began to change.  His change gave inspiration to some of his fellow prisoners.  And as bad his life was, it made things better. To make change  he changed himself. That's were it starts. Don't  change the outer, change the inner you,  first and foremost. Be that beacon of..... light.

9/11/2020. Rememberence

 

    Today is the day; that America got a wake up call. I was in a post  office, there was one employee but she was way in the back room which was very big. A radio was on in the back room. I could just barely make out what was being said.  Something about a plane hitting the world trade center, I think. The gal finally  comes to the desk. She said some accident  happened at the world trade center, just now. I went a quarter mile back to my house and flipped on the TV.  There was one of the towers on fire. They were calling it an accident.  Ten minutes later  I see the second tower hit. First words out of my mouth was damn Arabs. My nephew  told his parents he had a dream, this was several days before the attack, in the dream he saw planes striking buildings. Another example of dreams foretelling the future.

    Most of the hijackers were from Saudia Arabia. Zero hijackers from Iraq. Who do we go to war with? Afghanistan  and Iraq. Why Iraq? No idea. Afghanistan  was guilty for aiding the terrorists. We should be there for good. In the future I would hope that talk can forestall any chance for war. Talk it out.

   If there is strife in your family somewhere, well then you can see how it occurs out in the world between nations. Try to make peace in your own family if it is at all possible. If not than just avoid them to the best of your ability.

    The 2nd strife point was the 07 to 08 mortgage  meltdown. Cause underlying greed ruled the day with no real repercussions to the scofflaws. Politics helped get us out. 

    Then the me too movement. This was good. Then BLM which was also good. Also global warming is the elephant  in the room. Now comes the election. What will this do to America? We will see in the next 4 mos.   My wish is that it comes off without too much violence.

9/06/2020 The Pointed Finger

    I once saw a talk show with the actor Tom Arnold as a guest. I think he said he had 4 divorces. He tells the host I looked back on my life and I would blame the woman for the marriage  failures.  Then I got to thinking wait a minute here,  I'm  the common denominator  in all the divorces. The fault lies with me. I had to change me. Very good Tom.  Every time we point the finger at someone and say you did this to me, we have to remember that 3 fingers are pointed back at you. If you can't  see yourself ask someone who loves you or a very close friend to point out your defincies.  Then do not defend yourself, keep your mouth shut. What ever the person says write it down. Now that you got the truth, you have something to work with.

    

    Everybody fails in one way or another. Without failure there can be no growth. Our failures give us the opportunity to learning more about ourselves.  All we have to do is take responsibility for our predicaments and own it. It takes time and effort from us to make our lives better. No matter what happens in our life, there's a way to fix it or live with it. Spirit can help us in this endeavor. All you have to do is ask for it's  help.

    When things don't go our way, we have to hit the reset button. Blaming someone because they cheated on us or I didn't  get the promotion I deserved, or I got fired because  of him or her. That gets us nowhere,  try looking at it as an opportunity  that has landed in our laps. The door has shut for a reason. Now look for the very best door that sits waiting for you to be found by your efforts.

    Use that finger to point the way to a more fulfilling  life that you deserve. Remember it's  going to cost you time and effort. Visualize what you want to happen, then take action have faith that it will appear in your life and be thankfull.  Write down what you learned when the last door closed  in your life. Try to remain positive through out your days.