79pounds's Journal

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

All life is an experiment.

The more experiments you make the better.

What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again; you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes things have to fall apart,

so that we can choose again,

and put ourselves back together the way we want,

and are meant to be...

Jeff Anderson

Love is patient;

Love is kind,

is not jealous. 

Love does not brag,

is not arrogant,

does not ask unbecomingly,(is not offensive)

does not seek its own, (is not self-seeking)

is not provoked,

does not take into account a wrong suffered, (measure things before responding)

does not rejoice in unrighteousness,

But rejoices with the truth,

Bears all things. 

Love never fails. 

Now abide forth (now contemplate), Faith, Hope, Love, these three;  the Greatest of these is Love. 

1 Corinthians  13:4-8, 13

that is off of an embroidered wedding heart pillow in my living room and has about had it, thanks to the cats .  lol.  the one out of my leather bible (which is from 2003 and also has had it) actually says it better and more instructive:

Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,  it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.  But where there are prophesies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled;  where there is knowledge, it will pass away.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes the imperfect disappears.  When i was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child.  I reasoned like a child.  When i became an adult, I put childish ways behind me.  Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then i shall know fully, even as i am fully known.  And now these three remain:  faith, hope and love.  But the greatest of these is love. 

1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 13

evil people are usually very good actors, so i stay away from actors (and manic people) of all sorts, completely, because i am never sure when they are acting and when they aren't.  they are too hard to read, just like schizophrenics, hypherthyroids and mpd, i am never sure what i am dealing with and where they are at.  its very hard to read.  for many, their version of reality is material things, which is evil all by itself anyway.  "rich people have no chance of getting into heaven".  its not because they are rich, its because their focus is often of what is material only (its also because of temptation, they have the money to fulfill any vice that fancies them.  they are not broke and able to use being broke to stop themselves, like: nope no money, as an excuse.  lol.)  avoiding evil;  its like a serpent.  avoiding the serpent.  i love that the bible always ends up being right.  it always does.  in the end the bible is our guidebook and if we use it life will be okay, if we don't use it,  life is going to be difficult and awkward the whole way through and in the end people not using it will wonder why they have been here at all.  happens every time.  though i think people who twist it for their own gain ("self-seeking"), in anyway, end up hellbound even faster than those who are materialistic.  

taking a nap.  finishing off some work.  and then hopefully headed out.  its another scorcher.