If we were to extract only the bold print below in an effort to sharpen a focal point concerning building relationships what might we see?
When I say "relationship" I want to draw that thought completely away from long term acquaintance's that have simply cycled their way through your life for one reason or another.
That to mean only those portions of your true and lasting character qualities extracted from those relationships and are now being effectually applied going forward.
Applied only becuase you've placed enough "Value" upon them that they've since been "Managed" well enough they've also survived the gauntlet of change leading up to the time of your reading this.
As if to say it's taken you however many years to have evolved into the "Who" the world around you now hopefully also gets to "enjoy".
redundancy:
4. repetition of information or inclusion of additional information to reduce errors in tele-communication transmissions and computer processing.
Now, if we were to carve out (like trimming the fat from a choice piece of meat) your immediate (blood) "Family" relationships from that consideration we might end up eating a fairly small and lean piece of meat.
When I mention meat, I intend that to interpret as knowledge that becomes even more valuable after its re-evaluation enough that you take that knowledge with you where ever you might find yourself.
As a side dish lets examine the acronym TMI that usually gets interpreted to mean "Too Much Information is being offered within the context of a normal and comfortable conversation".
Maybe it should be changed to "TMPIBO" to mean "Too Much Private Information Being Offered".
Where does private or privacy fit within the truthful context of a wholesome relationship?
Just food for thought here, but have you ever made the connection between the words conversation and conversion?
How much of what you say has found itself effectual in this world and "Why"?
Finding the enjoyment in conversation is as if a beckoning to find the way to somehow enjoy our like minded considerations in life.
Conversation which then blossoms into a certain type of fruit others then enjoy having returned in order to pluck it from our tree (personage).
The type of fruit that has enough nutrional value that one day that value can also be "realized" because if has brought health and well being into their lives once digested.
We can't become obseesed with all the reasons why NOT. Instead as if a people with a common cause enought that we stay focussed upon the WHO as the only reason we choose to continue the way WE do.
The older I get I can see larger portions as maybe why friendships are valued so much. Leaning more heavily these days upon the aged factor, I have also discovered there's actually more said between the lines of speech.
Those listening have so much more to process (digest) than simply the words which come from our mouths.
Those listening have so much more to process (digest) than simply the words which come from our mouths.
Dependent upon the listening audience there are word substitutions made throughout this exchange process. Part of that "Process" is what I call the "Rule of substitution" which is also where MUCH gets assumed.
As the remedy, old school might simply suggest "Mean what you say and say what you mean" at all times.
More specifically today in western culture there is less (meat) being conveyed by way of the spoken words offered in relational exchanges than is the substance found within our assumptions made as we attempt to communicate in our relationships.
Thank God for music that mysteriously manages to remind us from time to time huh? Who knows that element could prove to be a fundamental dynamic as an associative influence with regards to a chosen genre'?
Ps 49:1-4
Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all who live in this world , both low and high, rich and poor alike: My mouth will speak words of wisdom; the utterance from my heart will give understanding. I will turn my ear to a proverb; with the harp I will expound my riddle:
NIV
Ps 49:1-4
Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all who live in this world , both low and high, rich and poor alike: My mouth will speak words of wisdom; the utterance from my heart will give understanding. I will turn my ear to a proverb; with the harp I will expound my riddle:
NIV
I truly see forgetting as either a blessing or a curse which usually depends upon its timing. If you don't believe me just ask the co-pilot that's found themselves lost in the Alzheimer storm within the vessel of their relationship!
We have evolved as a culture that's become more reliant upon our own familiarity when we do converse within said relationships. It's somehow found itself stowed away within the luggage at the opposite end of the Ship as something most would only consider as wasted space that's been taken by others.
Yet the thought of being held captive in the belly of a ship with most of those we've also become Familiar with would also cuase many a sleepless nights.
We've become so scarred within the processes of selection and culling out as the benefit of those relationships that we've accomplished nothing more than the hardening of the heart that in the beginning was inteded to express Love.
Part of whats also being ignored is the rate of erosion working from the opposite end of that thought. At it's heart might be the management of ourselves (person).
Yet the thought of being held captive in the belly of a ship with most of those we've also become Familiar with would also cuase many a sleepless nights.
We've become so scarred within the processes of selection and culling out as the benefit of those relationships that we've accomplished nothing more than the hardening of the heart that in the beginning was inteded to express Love.
Part of whats also being ignored is the rate of erosion working from the opposite end of that thought. At it's heart might be the management of ourselves (person).
Maybe the more accurate queston should be "Is it the Person that's being mismanaged in this world or that persons concerns for the clock that has become their manager moment to moment"?
Maybe as Time that's been given which we do HAVE to "Spend"?
Spend yes, but on what and for what cause?
1 John 4:16
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him NIV
Maybe as Time that's been given which we do HAVE to "Spend"?
Spend yes, but on what and for what cause?
1 John 4:16
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him NIV
This erosion has accelerated to such a fast rate (time) that it's produced such a great obsession that it would take years (time) to rebuild the bridge that could span such a gap.
Does the world seem as if it's rate of rotation has caused the hands of time to become almost a blur?
Does the world seem as if it's rate of rotation has caused the hands of time to become almost a blur?
How can that be said?
Because it does require the "value" of time to increase as we age (valuable today in the futures market of tomorrow that's been encased in how we also see OUR own tomorrow) as if the main building block needed in order to build meaningful relationships which do last.
Last to mean the simplicity of the formula which in turn causes the opportunity to NOT forget as the very reason Why is has a need to also remain.
Last to mean the simplicity of the formula which in turn causes the opportunity to NOT forget as the very reason Why is has a need to also remain.
Cultural priorities today have become so skewed that when we attempt to apply old school math in our attempts to address this erosion, it then becomes the very factor (as time) which then takes an even bigger bite out of the formula needed to fix the problem.
Time can be re-measured by humanity, but the essence of time can never be changed by earth bound creatures which co-habitate within it.
Time can be re-measured by humanity, but the essence of time can never be changed by earth bound creatures which co-habitate within it.
I think Nike saw something in a brief moment when they reached out and grabbed this series of words "Just do it" yet I'm not as convinced of the enirety of what they failed to add as if a response to the question "What to do"?
We'll constantly hear about the investments made in our friendship building efforts, yet the same assumption still gets made.
I once shared the essence of this thought with a man that was also a home builder.
I posed the question, "Suppose you hired a helper on the job site that didn't know what you were building, how helpful would that helper prove to be given enough time?
Who then becomes the keeper of that time enough to then say that enough time has since lapsed? The same dynamic is at play within the process where we cycle (usher) people in and out of OUR lives.
That word Investment gets placed on the table in order to suggest a common thread that's also relative to any and every said relationship that's "True".
I once shared the essence of this thought with a man that was also a home builder.
I posed the question, "Suppose you hired a helper on the job site that didn't know what you were building, how helpful would that helper prove to be given enough time?
Who then becomes the keeper of that time enough to then say that enough time has since lapsed? The same dynamic is at play within the process where we cycle (usher) people in and out of OUR lives.
That word Investment gets placed on the table in order to suggest a common thread that's also relative to any and every said relationship that's "True".
I also believe the word True to also to mean something that's Real that can and does last forever provided we don't Forget why it's needed to build a relationship that will endure.
That is a relationship as one that Last having endured every test found within the breadth of time and circumstance.
Maybe like an Ark that's been built to endure the limits of the surrounding flood waters.
That is a relationship as one that Last having endured every test found within the breadth of time and circumstance.
Maybe like an Ark that's been built to endure the limits of the surrounding flood waters.
I hope you've enjoyed my rant, but there's one last question?
Hows' your relationship with Jesus the "Christ?
What Ship are you hoping to build with the limits of time you've been given?
What Ship are you hoping to build with the limits of time you've been given?
SW
