PoM 191
My 67th birthday!
I got to spend it with my friends, praying, and my family, traveling.
Throw in two living foods meals, a brief run and a few push-ups…and I feel ‘fat and sassy’.
Thanks to everyone on PrayerCall for making it lovely.
I would like 67-70 to be my best years.
To do that I “accept hardship as a pathway to peace”.
PoM 192
When is a sponsor controlling?
A good sponsor makes suggestions, based on their own experience, that the sponcee will benefit from it, they try it for themselves.
When a sponcee decides not to follow suggestions, and the sponsor tries to argue with the sponcee…he is controlling.
PoM 193
She has all the anguish and anxiety of the artistic personality…without any of the talent.”
Interiors
My parents decided I didn’t have enough talent to reasonably pursue the life of successful musical artist.
They were right. My real gift is writing spiritual books.
Gummy is interested in electronic keyboards, stand-up bass, guitar, conducting and trombone.
We live in 330 square feet in a 24 unit apartment building.
I feel relatively sure that none of our neighbors would like a two year old trombone player living next door.
Maybe, we can convince him to be a conductor….it’s quieter.
PoM 194
Will Durant wrote the most simple, utilized and successful of the Histories of Western Civilization.
In it he clearly states, using the Greeks and Romans as examples, that when a society stops believing in it’s gods, immorality rises and civil decay begins.
I find it interesting that it doesn’t really matter whether the Greek gods are true and real, or that the Roman gods are true and real.
But, what is fascinating is that there is very clearly a deep psychological need in humans for God.
I like what AA says “Admit God…or be God”
PoM 195
I found a very simple and easy way to know humility.
Stand in front of 350 foot tall, 22 foot wide, 2500 year old tree in a California Redwood Forest.
These trees were here 500 years before Christ, when everyone in the world, except for the Jews, was still pagan.
All my “little plans and designs” seem wildly small in comparison to these stunning beauties.
I feel right sized…and humble.
And when I feel humble I feel surprisingly, free.
PoM 196
I have a mental illness.
It only strikes when I am out of town.
I get an overwhelming desire to call real estate agents and ask for the price of land per acre.
Because, I am sure that wherever we are visiting at that moment… Is better than where we live.
PoM 197
When the 67 year old adult has to not allow something to the 13 year old in me, in order not to have insurrection on my hands…I offer the teenager a deal.
In 1997, I was in love with a brilliant, sexy, beautiful, but very crazy woman.
I told my adolescent that if he let go of her…I would give him anything he wanted.
So, one day I went white water rafting, the next day backpacking, the next hangliding, and finally skydiving.
The teenager chose skydiving and I jumped 175 times.
That’s how I got over that particular great love.