Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
What do you do when you don’t know what to do?
That’s where I am.
“Do what you do know to do.” I’ve heard that one. But how does it answer the question?
“Do something; don’t just do nothing.” Right. OK. Still not very helpful…and potentially perilous. Read it all
“Time flies,” they say.
“But isn’t this ridiculous?” I reply, questioningly.
A few minutes ago (or so it seemed), I laid down on the floor, put my feet up on the handiest foot elevator, and closed my eyes.
It was Summer. Read it all
Naaman was mad. Very angry, in fact.
It’s no wonder. He had a huge, monstrous, humanly-insurmountable need.
He had come a long way for a solution. And a divine solution at that. He’d had plenty of time to develop a certain scenario, a specific sequence of events that should transpire.
In other words, he had his own idea on how things were going to happen Read it all
I know few people who would flatly assert their goodness makes an apology unnecessary. (OK, I don’t think I know anyone like that.)
But if I changed the focus from words to attitudes, then some folks I know come across as just being too good to apologize. I would even have to acknowledge that my own heart isn’t above such prideful self-righteousness.
Last night I came up with three short statements on the subject… Read it all
I dislike being wronged.
I dislike feeling like I’ve been wronged.
So what to do?
Here’s something that popped into my head a bit ago:
(I surely do like it when people practice that toward me…)
Benign — “good, kindly, benignant, benevolent, tender, humane, gentle, compassionate.”
Someone tell me how neglecting the child(ren) in my care can be described accurately as benign. 😯
I know, I know — we can refer to it as benign in the sense that it is “not malignant.” But still, how is it not a malignant thing to neglect my children? Read it all