Making It Plain

  ...but everybody doesn't like to clean a house or keep a house clean. Do you know anyone like that? Is it you? There are varying depths of this topic and it's not like we haven't been here before. If you need to refresh your memory, please check out these entries here , here , and here . As a Qualified Mental Health Professional, I have seen all sorts of people trying to convince the staff of what they are trying to do and failing miserably, yet they keep trying (some of them) until they get what they want. In this profession, it used to be when a patient has reached his/her bottom, they are ready for treatment in order to resume a life of being a sober yet viable portion to society. These days, one can apply for government assistance, be granted the benefits, and therefore never getting to the "bottom" which is necessary for many of those who are dependent on their drug or substance of choice. I have seen men who did not put forth nearly the effort for a job i...

Who had the idea of dinner and a movie first? Why did men first choose to pay for everything? Who flipped the script and why has it become complicated now? Lastly, when did we leave God out of flipping this script ( Philippians 4:13 AMP )? In growing up, one of the jewels of wisdom my mother said was not to accept gifts from men who are interested in dating you. I call them jewels now because I’m no longer a teenager and can completely understand without the distraction of added questions without much feedback… I was a talker . My mother was not. Nevertheless, we were a “humble” family and if it wasn’t a necessity it wasn’t purchased other than for a birthday or Christmas gift. I recall, from the movies of back in the day, when love interests would go to the girl with flowers and candy in hand. It was the romance of it all, and knew that someday the experience would be mine (cue the swooning here).  The day came and my mother's pearls of wisdom faced me before the bauble. I graci...

Its been awhile since my last entry. For a moment, I believed I exhausted all of the major topics for the Christian single life. Then I heard a program on the radio about living the lie of the Christian life style for whatever the purpose and I thought of you...the readers of this blog. Not that it describes you, only information so you will know what to keep watch for. Which of us are perpetrating to get what we can from the other? Do you know? Would you recognize the traits in yourself? The heart of a true believer is easy to see if you are really interested. I was sitting in a restaurant with my son who just finished his boot camp training. In those short 6 weeks, he could tell from his surroundings, who was in the military and who was a civilian. He even got up and spoke to one of them having never met him before. My father being in the military, never told us that it was an automatic training that one could spot at a glance. In the bible, when Jesus was being convicted for abs...