WHEN IN DOUBT, THINK IT OUT. @35 educated, mnstr of greatess church; @45 Registerd Rep, $100,000 income: rejected for $1mil insurance, health failing; @55 Crashed, manic depressive; @65 cancer. Lost everything, began to err on side of Good; @71 cancer in remission, living each moment aware of the Spirit of the Universe in my inner being.
If there is anything I wanted to share with you it is what I am sharing with you now from 1st hand experience. Although no one agrees with everything one person shares, I hope there is something here that will light up a part of your life as many have done mine.-mackie +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
‘I had some business on the North Shore one morning last month, and decided to go a bit earlier to watch the waves and shoot some pics. As it always happens, the surf the day before was epic, with a Hawaiian-scale 10′-12′ WNW swell firing up the outer reefs. I’d heard that Pipeline was in all-time early season form. But this day, a new and increasing N swell was competing for space with the declining westerly component, making for huge, but gnarly and crossed up surf. The trades were blowing hard side offshore, making for deep rib-like chop across the giant wave faces. Every break from Laniakea to Uppers were just washed out whitewater cauldrons. “Boy,” I thought to myself, “I’m glad I didn’t bring my board today. You’d never catch me out there!”‘ (#1)
“I’m a pretty safe driver. I’m a safe driver for a lot of reasons. One reason is that I hate the idea of getting a ticket. I’ve gotten pulled over for speeding before, and it sucks. It’s expensive. It’s a pain. You know that feeling you get when you drive past a squad car going a little over the speed limit, and then you look in your rear view mirror, hoping it doesn’t pull out? I hate that feeling. This, combined with the simple fact that I don’t want to die, is the reason I drive safely. I get passed a lot on the interstate……..The Bible can be interpreted a lot of ways. With any given issue, people of faith can go to the same Bible, pray to the same God, seek out the same Holy Spirit, and come up with very different answers. Take any issue: homosexuality, immigration, the treatment of the poor, abortion, gender roles, warfare, capital punishment, gun rights, euthanasia, the environment, education, etc. and people of faith will come to very difficult conclusions.
Some try to group these things into neat little packages like liberal and conservative. I’m not a fan of those labels, or of any labels really. I think most people are more complicated than our labels. I know that the world is.” (#2)
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“If something smells fishy it probably is. You should make a habit of simply choosing the ethical high road if you have any doubt in the matter. Don’t wait. Do it quickly before you talk yourself out of it. How much mental and emotional energy do you spend in mind games and moral debates when you should have just said “no” in the first place?” (#3)
For much more click on:
#2- http://fatpastor.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/erronthesideofgrace/
#3- http://www.character-ethics.org/articles/erronthesideofgood.htm
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