Is it safe?

So many people try to work. They try to make a wage. Then there are companies that hire them that are hurtful. They want to process regardless of what it does to the people that are hired. Now I am not for governmental controls over giving my money or using my taxes to fund programs for people who know how to work the system (not all programs and not all people do this so I don't want to give the impression I generalize) But when it comes to a job, people should expect for their safety to looked after and sometimes it doesn't happen. So ask yourself is it safe and see what safeguards can be put in place. And then you will be a servant, my dear...

Old is better?

I love old things. Old cats, old dogs, old TV series, old books, old movies. I am fascinated at the outlook, at what at a younger times older people are going through when they were my age. But is it better to look back and wonder what those things would do with today's technology and knowledge? It certainly has it's place, put a stamp on history and recurrence into the present of various events or people. And certainly proofs the point that history unless we are careful (which I have never met a careful human yet) will repeat itself. Our thought, our actions, even the freedoms we have are nothing new. Nor is the destruction of those. At any rate, the point given is not to focus too much on this time, past time, or into the future, because the reality is we cannot control any of it. Old may not be better. It's just looked through a different lens.

Who is in control? (Accent on who)

This week, yesterday as a matter of fact, I was scared that I wouldn't be able to perform a task. So I knelt before God in silence then I admitted how scared I was, and how I really wanted to be able to do what was asked of me. I'd done it before a different way and there are those that told me that was an unacceptable way so I tried this new method. Lo and behold it went off without a glitch. I love God I appreciate and thank Him for taking control and for being so much a nudger where I am concerned. I love Him. I praise Him

Freedom

Is freedom worth it? Freedom of speech, is it worth being unkind, destructive, or inflicting pain? Much as we may feel like hurting something or someone will make everything right, is that in fact truth? I am amazed at how many people forget their composure and like tigers in the middle of the jungle growl and snarl and take off after those that "offend" them. God took being offended out of my vocabulary a long time ago. But my feelings can still be hurt. Because you see taking offense at someone or something, that's selfishness on my part. That's me having to see something or someone out of my comfort zone and not being willing to allow another person or thing their existence as it is. But getting my feelings hurt that has to do with someone, whether intentional or not, taking something I've done or said and putting it through the ringer of meanness and crassness without regard to how it hurts me. The intention is to hurt me in fact, like a cold slap in the face. Realize sometimes I need this so I back off and go back on the straight and narrow. But most of the time people don't think about that but how much their blood pressure rises and they have to blow up at someone or something, rather than going before God and asking forgiveness or even "what do I do now" In this country it is actually those who choose to walk away from an argument, those who choose to say "I am not going to fight", those who allow others the right to say what they are going to say and then move on with their own existence who are actually free. As the Taoist says you have every right to express your freedom, but does that mean you should consider being destructive and mean behavior toward people and their property part of that freedom? Something to think about?