RANDOM THOUGHTS K 5

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE RANDOM THOUGHTS K 3 I am sure one day I will realize that my life has not been about how much money I have made, what awards and degrees I earned, where I lived or who I slept with or even how my kids turned out. We consider these things important. But allow me to use a very base example from real life. You and all know that know matter what we eat, it all comes out the same, but how what we eat nourishes our body is what matters. What we "do" or "don't do" in our lives may or may not matter either, but how "we live" does. May be it doesn't even make sense, I am not holy, don't even claim to be particularly religious or pious, but I try to be a decent human being, and isn't that that any religion requires of us. Societies have a few basic tenants, don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, do be greedy, selfish or gluttonous, it is so simple, so easy, so basic. It is, until our egos enter the equation. Who am I? Have you ever stopped and asked yourself? We are pretenders, we are not real, or are we? Do we know who we are. We , somehow either ask someone else as to who we are, a psychologist, a preacher, our partner, yet we don't ask ourselves, because the answer may scare us. We have labels, we label others all day, using the labels that we really could use on our own selves. We are afraid to know who we are. I am surprised, no, not really, how we come up with excuses for our bad behaviors, or point in a different direction when someone else is caught. If I had happened to be a self proclaimed "righteous" person, would I not be obligated to always follow the path of truth. I used to go to the AA meetings, one of the basic tenants of the AA was always to admit that I was wrong about what I had been doing. How could I say that my alcoholism or drug use was okay, or may be a little bit. Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; --- , would I be fooling myself if I did, well, I won't know that until too late, wouldn't I. Ask me if I want to take a chance and find out I was wrong when the choices were obvious. Going back to what I said earlier tonight, Consequences are just coincidences we didn't expect . Most religions also tell us that once we become "followers" there no exceptions or short cuts, 2 Corinthians 5:17 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. May be we should think before it is too late to change our minds. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON 23 SEPTEMBER 2022