Making It Plain

There is this wonderful, exuberant time in every relationship where the tingles and butterflies pale in comparison with what goes on within you when you see that special person you have agreed to be a major factor in your life.  Don't mistake how great the feeling is when you have a liking for someone and they don't know you even exist - that's cool too especially when you are a child. It's the agreement of two people believing and knowing that the compatibility is everything you could ever think it would be. Having like interests, conversations that aren't difficult, family values are equally treasured, and the roles that each have are obvious and not debatable. Eventually, the conversation changes because you both question where the relationship is going. Is this long term or something to do over the Summer? It's a scary thing to approach if you are immature. Grown folks have had discussions like this before. The sooner you find what the other person is lookin...

 In my profession, I have the responsibility to make sure my clients receive all of the services offered for their optimum physical and emotional well being. In so doing, the services require for the clients to listen to sound advise. Whether they adhere to the advise is their prerogative. The title of this entry came to me after speaking to one of those clients. She had divulged that she was going through a number of procedures that require invasive surgery. I asked if she had exhausted all other possibilities. She responded, "well, it's what the doctor recommended, so..." She had made up her mind. But what was the last pebble on the balance causing her to relinquish the power to seek a second opinion ( Luke 11-21-23 AMP ). What hold did this one doctor have on her? Why couldn't she see that there were simpler ways to resolve the problem, that this was the only body she was going to get, that once her life was gone under the knife, there were not going to be anymore ...

The title of this entry came to me while I was on the couch really watching the sitcom, Mike and Molly for the first time. It was the first season and episode 17; the character of Mike is a police officer. He was sitting in a diner and said the strangest thing to his partner about his new girlfriend, Molly, "I already showed her my A-game when we were dating, now that we are a couple, I don't have the stamina. What does she expect from me?"  Wow! What else is there to say about this? I have had men tell me that I am bashing them and women get all quiet when poignant topics are needed for conversation before the relationship goes too far. Understand the title of this entry goes for both male and female. It is treacherous out there and too many young people get all tangled up in the emotions of it all ( Galatians 5:17-25 AMP ). You see, there is no value in emotion when you walk by faith. Guilt, obligation, desperation, fear, insecurity, jealousy and the like have no plac...