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The unexpected familiar.
Sound is oftentimes noise through words or movement. To be sound when not strong in confidence or direction, sound takes on new meaning. The new meaning brings to mind what is meaningful rather than what the mind is trying to mean. What brings the meaningfulness is quietness and confidence that speaks volumes for itself in all it possible meanings. Meandering then stops as one re-calibtrates in order to progress and rightly process.
Sound off! Sync in.
Leaves expectations frozen in the mind, replacing the imagination, making me cold and harsh. When expectations are frozen, I stop expecting, reflecting, observing, resting, and soliciting. I also refuse to be silent.
Denies others the satisfaction of something they are right about that may also be important to me.
I try to absorb Him in my own effort, rather than allowing myself to be absorbed into Him. In other words, I dumb down Christ and assume myself as His equal.
Stops faith from allowing us to focus our own understanding.
Focuses on others rather than our own actions.
Stops your view to look up in humility and only looks down in superiority.
Focuses on words (strife) rather than realities.
Vainly flatters or blesses one that you are willing to tear to pieces.
Makes promises without performance and acts in ignorance when few words are needed yet are often repeated.
Creates perpetual dreamers that lead to grumbling and complaining.
Boards our grief to ourselves with wretchedness.
I am left exposed, so I must overpower or overact rather than empower.
Leads to talking obsessively about troubles to everyone who will listen which takes away the time needed for prayer (talking of trouble makes it double)
Causes few to act but many to overact--instead of overcoming.
Uses logic through extreme language instead of reason
Is always explaining rather than changing.
Listening both ways before crossing a question.
Developing clean energy for the energy boom coming in the next generation.
Raising the bar instead of the drink. Moving from toasted to bread so you won't get eaten alive.
Making an ash of myself where there is smoke, but no fire.
Stoned on weakness.
The question"What do you think?" begins the process of empowering leadership in a person when he has a question.
To approach someone with tact is to approach with wisdom and counsel. Often the need to approach is due to decisions by other parties made in haste out of emotions. This tactical approach with tact can inquire without reproach in order to understand how to bring order out of the resulting chaos. I wrote earlier about this in the blog Approach Toward Another's Reproach.
This place where we most live is a community of isolated rather than tribal. Rallying the isolated is driven by fear, suspicion, anger, or hatred. The tribal or true community isolates the innate need to be part of something and repairs and heals by unity. We could learn from a bear or Chicago with their cubs that refathering is needed to learn to be a follower who leads first out of isolation, and into protective, yet creative community.
We try to remain in isolation by our questions such as "What do I do?" The isolated tends to set-up an argument led by the thought "Yeah, but" that is expressed after given advice. Argumentative thoughts expressed as "Yeah, but" seek relief rather than healing in conflict. Concrete answers to the questions make you feel bad in order to feel yourself, maybe for the first time.
Questions, if seen as steps rather than a path to an answer, allow sight to hear "This is what I know" so I can hear what to do next expressed as "I see."
George of the Jungle, a friend to you and me, says don't club the cub but follow it out of the park and into drive.
Then see who you feel by what you formerly felt by getting your but in shape. Romans 3:21
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet- unless I've cut off my nose to spite my face through self-hatred. The fragrance of a rose reminds me who knows what matters no matter what names by which I call myself. Self-hatred is never born out of love, but out of pride, and pride doesn't understand that emotion is stronger than thought and I thought. The emotion of self-hatred is anger. This anger causes huge mood swings that I begin to judge as a mental problem rather than an attitude problem.
A bud wiser. Drink it in.