Time is your greatest gift

Honestly, are relationships my first priority? How can I ensure that they are? Sadly, as much as I would like to extol how relationships are my first priority my last one probably would not have ended if that were the case. How many friends have I lost to the passage of time. It takes time to keep in touch to think through an email or my goodness utilize snail mail. Time, the only truly non renewable resource in someones life. You can tithe to your church you can save for retirement you can donate to a charity, but time is the only resource or gift that no one else can give or replace. It is the same with relationships. The horrors of the topic flash through my mind. All the times something was placed before my relationships. I've passed on weddings, funerals, concerts, parties and who knows what moments in history because my focus was not on my relationships. I do believe that the resource of time becomes more obvious as we age and we have less of it. I also believe I am moving forward in taking the steps to create balance. Respecting my supply of time and spending it more appropriately.

Working the recap:


Hancock: 4 out of 5, it was awesome to see a superhero movie with consequences. One were the superman gets pissed off and having to deal with the fact no one else is like him. Some will complain that the movie is choppy, they crammed to much in the plot twist was crap. Well I say, Good for Hancock, doing some crap that tells a story, gets us talking and keeps a little bit in suspense.


Wanted, ditto on the 4 out of 5, this movie would have been perfect if it hadn't been so friggin predictable. The action sequences were amazing. I am just waiting for the @$$ clowns of the world to try an "curve a bullet" and how long it takes for this movie to cause the downfall of society or the corruption of youth. I digress, great movies go see um.

Where to begin?

OK, so a few things have transpired since I last sat to type at the blogger, some will probably get more detail in other posts but for now the list: I saw some movies, Wanted and Hancock. I completed a sprint distance triathlon, I had it confirmed that the magic weight loss number is still 40 lbs, Uncle Sam is right and i should be at 183. PS, the last time I saw 183 I think I was in High School. I saw what may have been the worlds only ground based fireworks show for the fourth of July, I had a one on one with my coach who a reminded me of the magic 183 (see above) and b challenged me to truly commit to the program and see what I can do at Miami Man in November. A Challenge that I am taking. I learned that you can wake up and ask yourself? Am I going to have a good day or a great day? I heard this three different times in two days. You think someone was trying to get my attention? There are probably a host of other things that I am forgetting, but will probably appear later anyway.

Chapter 15: How can I treat other believers like members of my own family? The issue I have here is several layers deep. One, why would we only treat other believers as if they were family? I get that text says that the spiritual family is eternal and we should focus on it, but the physical presence of others is important. How do you share the word and the possibilities if you aren't inviting to all. Not to mention there are plenty of believers I believe to be full of doodoo. Why should they receive special inclusion? I have to branch out on this one and say treat everyone the same. Inclusion and trust until proven otherwise. It's sort of like the Butterfly effect, Mr Science says, aka wikipedia, The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. So this is sometimes presented as esoteric behavior, but can be exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position. I think that sums it up perfectly.

Don't Panic

Back on track with the updates tomorrow.