SENSITIZE (Substitute)
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Sensitize … June 3rd, 2020
SENSITIZE 5
Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his audience.
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My friend, would you please define
Why you think we are all just fine?
BAD
What happens when good doesn’t make us better? Isn’t that bad?
- A good economy.
- A good job market
- Good Christmas season.
- Good outlook on the stock exchange.
Why don’t these things we call good make us better?
And what is the purpose of touting good things when they don’t internalize into human beings and transform them into dynamic individuals?
Is it possible that it’s bad when things are good?
Are we better when things are worse?
Is there a part of us that knows we’re not worthy and wants to find our own feet instead of being lifted?
I’m not sure, but I know this:
It seems to me to be bad when good doesn’t make us better.
SAD
Likewise, when joy brings no smile, is it really happiness?
If the “joy of the Lord is strength,” why does the believer frown?
If music truly brings joy, why are drugs necessary to make us high?
If being in love is actually a joyful thing, why do we spend our time lamenting our choice?
It seems to me to be pretty sad when joy brings no smile.
When a Christmas season comes and goes and we’re so engrossed in politics, impeachment, misconceptions and distractions that the carols play at the same decibel as years before—with identical emotion—yet fail to beckon our childlike spirit.
MAD
It makes me mad when the common gains no sense.
Why is it that we are trying to be the first generation to come to different conclusions than our ancestors did? Is it just so we can proclaim our uniqueness?
The Earth has been around for a long time and certainly has its ways.
Nature speaks to us.
Science teaches us.
And our human brothers and sisters join us.
It is common—but it gives no sense.
It is obvious—yet ignored.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
But wait! Wait. Ours can.
He who hates his brother hates God.
No, no. We have a much different interpretation.
Lying is evil.
Oh, my goodness—you are so behind the times. We have discovered a way to lie and make it charming.
For there to be common sense, there must be sense we acknowledge as common among us all.
GLAD
I wonder if we’re prepared to avoid the pain by letting what is sane produce our gain.
This is the way to be glad.
Gladness is not sprinkled on us like fairy dust.
It isn’t an accidental stumbling into the hilarious.
Gladness is when the pain leaves because the sane produces gain.
Isn’t it bad when good doesn’t make us better?
I find it sad when joy produces no smile.
Are you mad when the common gains no sense?
Or are you like me?
Ready to be glad, relinquishing the pain by allowing what is sane to offer true gain.
Jesonian… June 10th, 2017
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Sex, money and family.
These are the three topics that encompass the majority of conversation for the average American.
Sex, discussed in the context of portraying ourselves as studly and virile while simultaneously pointing out the sinfulness in others.
Money, a perpetual complaint because we all feel we should have much more than we do.
And family because somewhere along the line we’ve convinced ourselves that our particular brood of offspring has a special place in the universe because we spawned them.
Matter of fact, I can pretty well guarantee you that if you wade into the horde of humanity, you’d better be prepared to talk about one of these subjects–probably all three.
I offer this preface because Jesus avoided these three subjects like a religion.
When they tried to get him to gossip about a woman caught in the act of adultery, he turned away, stooped down and fiddled in the dirt like he didn’t even hear them.
He certainly made the point to a bunch of pious Pharisees that because prostitutes were coming into knowledge of the Kingdom of God, they were going to enter heaven much sooner than the religious leaders. (This wasn’t very popular.)
When it came to money, he was confronted by a gentleman who wanted Jesus to be an arbiter in an inheritance squabble with a brother. Jesus curtly replies that “no one has made me a judge over such matters” and then proceeds to tell a parable about the dangers of greed. Probably not what the young fellow was looking for when he advanced his question.
And as pertains to family, Jesus made it totally clear to those around him that when his kin came to see him with the intent of returning him to Nazareth because they thought he was crazy, Jesus explained that his family was “anyone who did the will of my Father.”
So if you remove the subject of sex–which is often judgmental condemnations about the preferences of others; and money–which seems to be a perpetual lamentation over not having enough; and family–the extolling of our particular procreation due to sexual prowess–you really don’t have much to talk about, even in the lobby of a church.
Jesus had other topics that interested him:
Mercy.
Justice.
Compassion.
Faith that was ready to move mountains and those individuals who broke out of the pattern of the “sex, money and family fixation” to find a way to get along with everybody on the planet.
If you’re going to progress as a Jesonian individual–someone who pursues the heart of Jesus and not just his sacrifice–you need to realize that Jesus is not worried about your sex organs, your financial status nor how cute you think your grand-baby is.
This would probably cause him to receive some very critical glances from the Mens Fellowship and the Ladies Auxiliary. He did not care.
If you can’t get your mind out of the gutter, your brain free of feeling financially cheated, and your heart devoted to something other than those living under your own roof, you probably will back your way into a tragedy.
At that point you will have a choice.
Will you take responsibility for it due to your short-sightedness, or will you wonder why God didn’t do something to stop it?
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G-Poppers … April 28th, 2017
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G-Pop took a few moments last night to talk to his godson.
The young man is personable, with potential dangling from him, similar to a bunch of electrical cords that need to be plugged in somewhere. Like so many of us, he just doesn’t know which cord goes into which socket.
It begins with a simple understanding: 80% of what we think is born in our fear.
G-Pop wishes he could proclaim that our thoughts are grounded in our faith or our devotion, but it’s not true. Faith, hope and charity have no chance until fear is confronted, tracked down and put in its place. So our thoughts scream from this fear.
Now, 90% of what we fear comes from what we see and hear.
If we surround ourselves with fearful people saying fearful things about a fearful world, we should not expect a great fountain of creativity to spring forth from our souls.
For instance, here’s a simple point about gun control in America: the problem is not the gun. The difficulty lies in the fact that what we see and hear about guns always has them with the barrel pointed at a human. If you go to Canada, you’ll see lots of guns. But they’re pointed at deer and moose. The Canadians don’t have a constant programming of seeing and hearing about guns pointed at other human beings.
In America, we would frown on a gun being pointed at an animal, but our guns are constantly pointed at human beings. Therefore, what we see and hear becomes our fear and our fear becomes what we think. And we think that guns are for killing people, not rabbits.
And the final statistic that G-Pop presents is that 100% of what we see and hear should be our choice.
So you will think from your fear.
Your fear comes from what you see and hear.
And if you sacrifice what you see and hear to what the pundits want to thrust down your throat or what your friends insist will make you cool, you will be at the mercy of the fear that is produced by these visions.
G-Pop’s godson is just like all of us.
He needs to learn that our thinking is controlled by our fear; our fear is manipulated by what we see and hear, so if we take authority over what comes into our eyes and ears, we begin to change our fear to faith and our faith can work to produce love.
Three final points set this in motion:
1. Run from strife.
Whenever you see people fighting for the hell of it, get yourself away.
2. Walk away from gossip.
Gossip is just violence in training.
3. Sit with good cheer.
When you find people who are looking for hope, who are smiling through the difficulties and trying to create unity and joy, sit your butt down.
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A Nice Price for Mice … November 16, 2013
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It was a rather odd dream–not really spooky, just bizarre.
I found myself in a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant, chomping on a chicken sandwich, chatting with friends, when a young tyke about seven years old came walking up to me. He had chubby cheeks and wore a winter hat, similar to the ones you would see in the 1950s on kids who were forced to don them by their parents. In his hand he was holding an old-fashioned bird cage, and as I peeked inside, I discovered it was filled with little dead white mice.
I was taken aback. Then the youngster pointed to a sign pinned to his coat. It read, “A nice price for mice.”
I realized the kid was trying to sell these deceased little rodents–peddling from table to table.
Before I could express my horror, he ambled over to another patron, where a lovely older lady purchased one of the mice from the determined seller. He made his way all around the restaurant, with each person buying one of the dead boogers and patting the young man on the head.
I observed that none of the customers knew what to do with their purchase. As I mentioned, this was not a spooky dream. No one ate one or put it between their sesame seed buns. One lady wrapped the dead mouse delicately in a napkin and placed it in her purse; another man stuffed it in his pocket.
Why was the little boy selling dead mice? And why were people purchasing them?
Suddenly I awoke.
So you see, my friends, I don’t like to ignore my dreams. It may actually be one of the few occasions when my harried soul is still enough for God and my conscience to speak to me. In the process of analyzing the dream, I realized it was a parable of our American culture.
If Madison Avenue is able to find the right “little boy” to send our way to appeal to us, we are more than willing, at a nice price, to buy mice.
We really don’t know what we’re going to do with them. We don’t particularly favor them. But we find it difficult to say no to the attractive offer–especially when those around us are purchasing.
So we end up stuck with something we may not even believe in, and certainly do not treasure, as we pretend that it is our choice. Here’s the truth: mice aren’t nice–at any price.
Especially dead ones.
So I will tell you–there are some mice which have entered our society, promoted by Madison Avenue and large corporations. I would like to point them out and call them nasty, instead of wrapping them up in a napkin and tucking them away.
Here are three that immediately come to my mind:
1. Killing.
I am against it. I don’t like war. I don’t agree with capital punishment. I don’t like abortion. I don’t particularly like it when a guy shoots a woman through a screen door. It’s a dirty little mouse being peddled to the public as realistic and entertaining.
2. Drug abuse.
I don’t understand why we need them. What I mean is, I don’t understand why we would want to take drugs for recreational purposes when we’re reluctant to use them for treatment. I think we should be in the business of becoming a drug-free society because we’re working on being happier people. I will not purchase that little wall-dweller and call it a pet.
3. Pornography.
It isn’t cute. It isn’t pretty. It doesn’t create equality between the sexes. It is another form of slavery for women. It is notorious. It is a dead “stinky” being sold by pretty people who want to portray themselves as open-minded–unless you are talking about the rights and dignity of the female of our species.
There you go.
I realize we live in a society that wants to peddle a nice price for mice, but I will tell you, things like killing, drug abuse and pornography are dirty rats.
And they are not a deal for me … at any price.
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Darkened … October 23, 2013
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As much as I enjoy traveling across the United States, meeting the fabulous collage of human beings afforded to me, one of the more difficult aspects of the journey is finding a way to end the year’s activities and partake of Thanksgiving and Christmas without depleting my coffers in the process.
And you must add onto that the fact that most of the venues which normally open their arms are particularly busy themselves, at the close of the season, with projects pre-determined.
This year we ran head-on into this dilemma. Like every other American, it appeared we were going to end up with more things in our “required” pile than we had in our “possess” pile. It was a problem. Or shall I say, it IS a problem?
It made me realize there are really three ways to handle the everyday blow-ups that happen to our well-conceived plans. The first way is what we shall refer to as “darkened.”
We fall back on our upbringing, whether conservative OR liberal, and believe that by becoming either constrictive or free-wheeling, that we will overcome our circumstance. This philosophy is prevalent in our society, characterized by conservatives who allow too little and liberals, who allow too much. They both insist they are making their stands on the basis of protecting liberty, but merely shutting the door does not keep the cold out and opening the door and turning up the heat does not seem to make it any more toasty either.
It is darkened–a pursuit of resolution with an inclination toward cynicism. It is traditionalism honored over common sense. And since the conservatives allow too little and the liberals allow too much, they are immediately at war with each other, resorting to insult and defamation of character instead of rhyme and reason.
We must be careful that when we’re talking about the realm of the emotions and spirit that we don’t emulate the political scene in our country, which has driven us into a gridlock of name-calling and stonewalling.
- I am not conservative. Sometimes the answer to a problem is to open up possibilities beyond what we have accepted as normal in the past.
- I am not a liberal. Just because people desire or campaign for some particular right, that it should be granted to them if it’s contrary to the common good.
But because this stalemate persists, the conscience of our country has become darkened, and cynicism has replaced the willingness to try new ideas and to evolve old ideas to fresher conclusions. How do you know that cynicism has entered your life?
1. You have an idea of how things are going to play out before you even try them.
This isn’t the fruit of experience. This is a careless disregard for the possibility of the grace of God and human effort to bring about miracles.
2. You think that restricting people or giving abstract freedom is the way to control natural events.
Free will IS intact–that’s why the dialogue on what is best for everyone needs to be in place.
3. You have gradually bought into the mantra that people are “no damn good.”
You certainly cannot preach a message that “God so loved the world” and also be a little pissed off all the time.
Our society has become darkened by a cynicism that promotes either a conservative or a liberal agenda instead of what is nurturing for human beings. We can’t allow too little and we can’t allow too much.
So what is viable?
See you tomorrow.
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