Your Lupines or YOUR LIFE. In A Bunch! In A Bunch!

[LoisB]

Wow, I'm putzing...sent the questions to the publisher, doing laundry, picking up, looking up other journalism jobs and, in the background, I have a sermon preaching...AND...I hear her say (I'm paraphrasing),

It's easier to be a VICTIM than a VICTOR. The issue is...I'm too lazy to do the WORK, so let me blame someone else for my unhappiness...I only have you for a total of two days, ideally, out of 365 days of the year...I can only hope that you leave here and do the daily work, and be responsible, and take responsibility and be disciplined and don't blame...Because IF you want to find a WAY, you will...otherwise you will find an excuse...Some of you are married to an earthly treasure and you keep going after trash. Don't you want to know, 'Why do I do that?' It's always someone else's fault...NO, I have charge of my life. I have ownership of my life.

She went on to say...we use situations, thoughts, people...these all formed us and we use these as mirrors of our own worth. Sometimes...SOMETIMES, these reflections weren't accurate of who we REALLY are...but, we took in those reflections as truth.

If you want to know why we are in these situations today, look back 10, 15, 30 years before and see what SEEDS were planted in our lives that grew and developed and were nourished to create these situations.

In my case, I know that Smokey's "infection of negativity/lack of faith/soul sickness" eventually infected my own life...I allowed that.

Look at the measures being taken to prevent Ebola from spreading into the U.S. Look at how cautious they are being with these two patients to prevent the further spread of this disease...What if I had been that careful with what thoughts/beliefs/situations I allowed in my life...so I wouldn't be infected...

There are some people in our lives that (according to this pastor)...we need to forget what they look like.