Have you ever looked back on your life and regretted something that you know you can never change? We all at one point or other, have at least one regret that we wish we could go back and do over, fix, undo, or use better judgment with. It does not matter how small or how great the regret is, in the end it affects us deeply in so many ways. In some ways our regrets affect others around us, in that we lose our gusto or ability carry on with certain things that will remind us of them and that other person can’t ever begin to understand.
I have made my share of regrets in life, some that I feel I can never run to far from, because there will always be someone there no matter how hard I try to change or undo the wrong that will remind me of my errors. Some I push in the back of my heart hoping that one day I will have the strength to face them, and some that I choose to forget about. I am sure I am not alone in my thinking, that there are many people out there with regrets that most people call skeletons that they throw deep in the back closet of their minds. We cry in the quiet nights alone, or walk somewhere in solitude thinking them over in our minds trying to teach ourselves lessons from them, and yes, we try like hell to forget them.
No matter or error, or regret, one thing is certain, we become better people from them providing we learn lessons and not repeat them. Some day, I hope that my only regrets that will exist deep in my mind is that I have not loved more, laughed more often, or gave more of my heart to those less fortunate than myself, and lived better. Regrets, sure we all have them, but let’s make them good regrets that in the end others will learn from and that we can look back without sadness in our hearts!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Politically Religious!
Politically Religious!
It amazes me the people that call themselves Christian, and live in their righteous world of casting judgment upon others, as if they were God handing down a sentence for our sins. They look down on us, because we do not go to church on a weekly basis, put fish stickers on our cars, have our radio stations set to the local Christian channel, or throw our hands in the air and scream Amen! They also think if we do not vote for the same person at election time, that they feel is politically fit for their Christian outlook, we must be doomed for hell. While I understand that their choice of who they vote for fits their moral values, and may support their biblical position on life choices, does this mean they have made the wisest choice?
Despite the fact that I think a true Christian would not stand in judgment of others, or cast stones upon those they call sinners, and they will live by example of what love really should be, like having forgiveness, compassion, and understanding, there are those that call themselves Christian that lack all this. They fight with those they view as sinners about the person they voted for at election time, claiming that the other person’s choice was the wrong one, and that they must not hold any moral standards, but still are they right?
We all hold different outlooks on life, and each of us have made choices of how we choose to live our life. Some of us choose not to go to church for reasons only known to us, but yet we believe in God, and we most certainly believe in living with good ethics, and live with love towards our fellow man, and hold compassion for those that are lost in their life choices that lead them in wrong directions. There are those of us that know in the end that we all are only human, and that it is not our place to look down and cast a verdict on another person’s choices in life, and if others vote for someone we do not share a mutual position with does that make me or they wrong?
What it boils down to is being politically correct, not all people that call themselves Christian are hypocrites, there are those that live by example showing what the meaning Christian truly should be, and it is not a matter of who is the right or the wrong person to vote for, it is about the person that can show the true meaning of leadership and wise choices for our country. So while one man may go to church every week, and lack the love and compassion that is taught, and another man who does not go to church yet shows more love and compassion than any Christian, is he or she wrong in God’s eyes? It is about being Politically Religious, it is about understanding that we all are different, right, wrong or indifferent, and the choices we make for our own lives are in the end the choices we alone will have to live with, and what is one man’s view is not necessarily wrong, just different from our own and we must have the wisdom to respect that difference.
It amazes me the people that call themselves Christian, and live in their righteous world of casting judgment upon others, as if they were God handing down a sentence for our sins. They look down on us, because we do not go to church on a weekly basis, put fish stickers on our cars, have our radio stations set to the local Christian channel, or throw our hands in the air and scream Amen! They also think if we do not vote for the same person at election time, that they feel is politically fit for their Christian outlook, we must be doomed for hell. While I understand that their choice of who they vote for fits their moral values, and may support their biblical position on life choices, does this mean they have made the wisest choice?
Despite the fact that I think a true Christian would not stand in judgment of others, or cast stones upon those they call sinners, and they will live by example of what love really should be, like having forgiveness, compassion, and understanding, there are those that call themselves Christian that lack all this. They fight with those they view as sinners about the person they voted for at election time, claiming that the other person’s choice was the wrong one, and that they must not hold any moral standards, but still are they right?
We all hold different outlooks on life, and each of us have made choices of how we choose to live our life. Some of us choose not to go to church for reasons only known to us, but yet we believe in God, and we most certainly believe in living with good ethics, and live with love towards our fellow man, and hold compassion for those that are lost in their life choices that lead them in wrong directions. There are those of us that know in the end that we all are only human, and that it is not our place to look down and cast a verdict on another person’s choices in life, and if others vote for someone we do not share a mutual position with does that make me or they wrong?
What it boils down to is being politically correct, not all people that call themselves Christian are hypocrites, there are those that live by example showing what the meaning Christian truly should be, and it is not a matter of who is the right or the wrong person to vote for, it is about the person that can show the true meaning of leadership and wise choices for our country. So while one man may go to church every week, and lack the love and compassion that is taught, and another man who does not go to church yet shows more love and compassion than any Christian, is he or she wrong in God’s eyes? It is about being Politically Religious, it is about understanding that we all are different, right, wrong or indifferent, and the choices we make for our own lives are in the end the choices we alone will have to live with, and what is one man’s view is not necessarily wrong, just different from our own and we must have the wisdom to respect that difference.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Little Flower!
An unkept lot with trash and weeds,
is and ugly sight to see.
We find no beauty hidden there,
there's none for you nor me.
Then suddenly a seed is dropped,
by birds from far above.
A little seed so full of hope,
and with a wondrous love.
A summer rain, the bright sunshine,
the little seed does sprout.
Against all odds it starts it's climb,
it knows it must get out.
So slowly yet surely it grows, and grows, and grows,
up from the trash and weeds, towards heaven it slowly goes.
Then suddenly it's lovely head pops up,
into our view.
That dainty, esquisite little flower,
that flower dear is you!
Sherry Molcan 1992 copywright@
is and ugly sight to see.
We find no beauty hidden there,
there's none for you nor me.
Then suddenly a seed is dropped,
by birds from far above.
A little seed so full of hope,
and with a wondrous love.
A summer rain, the bright sunshine,
the little seed does sprout.
Against all odds it starts it's climb,
it knows it must get out.
So slowly yet surely it grows, and grows, and grows,
up from the trash and weeds, towards heaven it slowly goes.
Then suddenly it's lovely head pops up,
into our view.
That dainty, esquisite little flower,
that flower dear is you!
Sherry Molcan 1992 copywright@
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Hunting Time!
It is now bird hunting time here in Maine, what a great time to walk in the colorful woods looking for birds....hey the turkeys keep coming around my yard!
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Information Highway!
As I drove to and from Boston today, it had amazed me how many people put bumper stickers on their cars. I started to read some of them, to pass the time on the four hour drive down to Boston and I read everything from a person’s meat choice, pet selection, lifestyle preference, and religion and politics assortment. There was even one bumper sticker on the back of an old, seen better days Volvo that gave a relationship status or outcome, whichever way you chose to look at it, that read: “I got a divorce and all I got was this lousy bumper sticker.” As I was passing the car, I just had to look at the poor guy or girl that got stuck with just that stupid bumper sticker and obviously a bad attorney. It was a man, coffee in one hand, cigarette in his mouth, unshaven and a shirt that looked like he had slept in it the night before, and a look on his face of complete uncertainty, as if he was lost in the city in which he was driving through. I thought perhaps maybe the divorce was recent, and it was actually a look of “I just got screwed by the ex-wife and my lawyer.” Either way, I felt extremely bad for him and thought that maybe he was really a nice guy down deep, but definitely not anyone I would personally want to date, it’s obvious he still had issues.
So, I continued on my drive reading the wide range of information that people put out there about themselves like a blog on the highway, shouting out their wide range of choices, opinions, selections, and yes, their relationship statuses for everyone that cared to read them. I figured you could learn a lot by looking around you while driving on the highway and you can make a lot of assumptions, especially if the car does not belong to that person driving it. After all, that guy with the divorce sticker could have been driving the car he just bought from the person who did get the divorce, for his child going off to college and he just had not gotten home after a long shift at work yet. Whichever way you view the person’s you come across, it still is an open classroom to all of us on the information highway of life.
So, I continued on my drive reading the wide range of information that people put out there about themselves like a blog on the highway, shouting out their wide range of choices, opinions, selections, and yes, their relationship statuses for everyone that cared to read them. I figured you could learn a lot by looking around you while driving on the highway and you can make a lot of assumptions, especially if the car does not belong to that person driving it. After all, that guy with the divorce sticker could have been driving the car he just bought from the person who did get the divorce, for his child going off to college and he just had not gotten home after a long shift at work yet. Whichever way you view the person’s you come across, it still is an open classroom to all of us on the information highway of life.
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