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G-Pop would like to address two words with his children: constraint and restraint.
Although they have similar definitions, their application is quite opposite.
Constraint is normally a commandment or demand placed on others, and restraint is a restriction we apply to ourselves.
Even though we certainly would love to place many constraints on the world around us and guide it into deeper understanding of what we envision for an excellent planet, the fact of the matter is, no one really listens to anyone else, especially when controlling through instruction.
When constraint is in the air and cultures, religions and political parties are attempting to convert one another, the end result is usually violence. Of course, long before the mayhem, painful discourse ensues, often punctuated with insult.
G-Pop wants to tell his children that it is time for good-hearted people of good cheer to take on some selected restraint, with the goal, in so doing, of making it much easier for people to see the vision of the choice–and judge for themselves what they want to do.
Here are G-Pop’s Four Posts of Personal Restraint:
1. I will live and let you live.
2. I will be odd, and not get even.
3. I will make more and take less.
4. I will be kind and ease my mind.
No human being will be able to pull these off every day, or even for the preponderance of a week. But just doing it every once in a while changes the quality of the air we breathe, and lightens the burdens of the load we bear.
You can try to force these on other people, but they will resist you.
Or you can simply take them on as a goal, a mission, a blessing and a great relief to your own brain.
Constraint leaves the world bickering over details and never taking on the “weightier matters” of mercy and love.
Restraint opens the door, showing others what it’s like to clean up your own house before you try to dust the furniture in someone else’s living room.
The producers of jonathots would humbly request a yearly subscription donation of $10 for this inspirational opportunity
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G-Pop would like to address two words with his children: constraint and restraint.
Although they have similar definitions, their application is quite opposite.
Constraint is normally a commandment or demand placed on others, and restraint is a restriction we apply to ourselves.
Even though we certainly would love to place many constraints on the world around us and guide it into deeper understanding of what we envision for an excellent planet, the fact of the matter is, no one really listens to anyone else, especially when controlling through instruction.
When constraint is in the air and cultures, religions and political parties are attempting to convert one another, the end result is usually violence. Of course, long before the mayhem, painful discourse ensues, often punctuated with insult.
G-Pop wants to tell his children that it is time for good-hearted people of good cheer to take on some selected restraint, with the goal, in so doing, of making it much easier for people to see the vision of the choice–and judge for themselves what they want to do.
Here are G-Pop’s Four Posts of Personal Restraint:
1. I will live and let you live.
2. I will be odd, and not get even.
3. I will make more and take less.
4. I will be kind and ease my mind.
No human being will be able to pull these off every day, or even for the preponderance of a week. But just doing it every once in a while changes the quality of the air we breathe, and lightens the burdens of the load we bear.
You can try to force these on other people, but they will resist you.
Or you can simply take them on as a goal, a mission, a blessing and a great relief to your own brain.
Constraint leaves the world bickering over details and never taking on the “weightier matters” of mercy and love.
Restraint opens the door, showing others what it’s like to clean up your own house before you try to dust the furniture in someone else’s living room.
The producers of jonathots would humbly request a yearly subscription donation of $10 for this inspirational opportunity
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