One Bullet

We don’t need to fill the chamber often one bullet will do. Preparing to do anything in life does not always require we that we “load up”. More sometimes is just too much.  

It Appears to Me

An agreement not to do something takes the pressure off performance and the need, desire and obligation to do something you don’t want to do.  

The Rooster and the Hen

Why did the rooster cross the road? Answer: because there was a hen on the other side. But what he failed to see was the oncoming car that flattened him dead and sent his beautiful feathers flying. The moral is  a rooster  can’t fly but when he’s chasing a hen his feathers can.  

Flower in the Wind

The lily bends in deference to the blowing wind and it never gives the force of nature anything more. Its weight keeps the flower in its bed. We need that lesson too because we often add more than weight to situations that only help us break.  

Knocking About

 Waking up the unconscious mind is done with a silent alarm clock.  But the first thing we need to shut off is the noise of random unsupervised thought.

When pain is so familiar you think there is no alternative but to complain about it, it may be time for a new set of questions to ask yourself.

Picking up the pieces after a fall can be a daunting experience as we sit with the "why me" too long but as one of my teachers showed me the new space I hadn't seen before isn’t so bad.

Not knowing is the most fearsome place our mind runs to. Pretend instead that not knowing means we are headed for uncharted happiness with faith as our companion.

YES

I was listening to a broadcast by Joel Osteen and he talked about the series of “no’s” before you get to the ‘Yes” and I thought how revelatory he was even though this is not a new paradigm by any means. He sighted Edison’s two thousand no’s for an example and how he just kept on moving closer to the eventual Yes. And why is it any different for us? And there is no difference it is just that we get stuck on a ‘no’ and leave it there. 

The Other 9 Pins

 There are days when God goes bowling and you’re the PIN.  And even if you do get knocked down you can always pick yourself up afterwards. And if you talk to the other 9  they’ll know exactly how you feel.