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Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his friends.
Today: Being human means we’re flawed. Every one of us. That’s how we learn compassion.
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3 Things … June 11th, 2020
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That That Will Still Be Here in 200 Years
1. Failure (if human beings remain)
2. Compassion (if human beings possess wisdom)
3. Humor (if human beings post their follies)
Sit Down Comedy … July 19th, 2019
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It is a breathtakingly simple three-step process:
I. Like. You.
I, like you.
I like you.
Although not complex, it seems to profoundly stump the consciousness of the human race.
It begins with I.
In other words, me. I will stop putting the focus and the blinding light on the faults of others and center it on my own foolish foibles.
I will remove the sacs filled with venom so that when I become grouchy and bite someone, I don’t have to accidentally poison them.
I will become the “I” that needs to learn what I need to know, and only I need to know, in order to accomplish what I must do.
This will lend itself to becoming a person who can “like” things once again.
I have stopped doing so. In favor of coming across with wit, I have transformed myself into a cynical snoot, thinking that intelligence is better expressed through critique. I have refused to appreciate the little blessings that have come my way.
But since I have taken the time to acknowledge what I am and what I need to do, I can ease up my insecurity and start to like things again.
Which brings me to You.
You have always been one of my problems—perhaps my only calamity—because I view you as competition and resent the hell out of you using up the oxygen in the room that I could be hoarding in reserve.
I am twice as critical of you than I am me.
I am ten times more judgmental of your pratfalls than my huge stumblings.
But if I will take the time to find out who I am and not be afraid of admitting that I am lacking in some areas, then the possibility for liking things will cheer my soul and make me much more pleasant to be around—so I will be able to store up a measure of grace for when I find myself dealing with you.
With Step One in place, I am ready for Stage Two:
I, like you.
Yes, I look for similarities between you and me—your kind and my kind—my race and your race. I want to stop discussing your culture and my culture and see if we can discover the human culture.
And thirdly, I believe I will arrive at a position where I can say—hopefully:
I like you.
Perhaps God was too optimistic to think we could love our neighbor. But maybe we are able, after we’ve taken stock of our own weakness, to like things again, offering more room for one another.
Then negotiation, reasoning, conversation and even arguments could be well-oiled with compassion, commonality and gladness.
There are nearly eight-and-a-half billion people in this world. It would not be necessary to get all of them to follow this three-step process. Even if we had one million people with hearts of good cheer, to pursue:
I. Like. You.
I, like you.
I like you.
Well, if we could just get a million, the light that would shine would be so brilliant that another ten million would want to imitate the success…
Of course, offering their own name for it.
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1 Thing You Can Do This Week to Change Your World
You Can’t Be a Shepherd and Act Like a Sheep
If you want to shepherd your ideas, guide your plans and steer your dreams, you have to stop being a victim to your own circumstances or a prisoner to your own limited “mental barn.”
Sheep clump.
Sheep are often afraid.
Sheep don’t know how to move to greener pastures.
Sheep are vulnerable to wolves.
Sheep are not comfortable unless they’re doing what the other sheep are doing.
A sheep is an animal
As an animal, it responds to its environment instead of changing it.
A shepherd, on the other hand, is a human who understands sheep weaknesses, and is able to lead them to more prosperous and safer adventures.
A shepherd does this in two ways–sometimes a shepherd uses tenderness; sometimes, stern.
If you want to change your world, you have to stop being a sheep. Because if you are, you cannot shepherd your own passions.
So find your own humanity, develop some spunk, don’t respond to the greenness of the grass–and bring leadership and compassion to the sheep around you.
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Sit Down Comedy … January 4th, 2019
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Much to the chagrin of my friends and family, I refuse to accept the invitation to either the Republican Party or the Democrat Shindig.
Further complicating their emotions is the fact that sometimes there is a “red me,” other times a “blue me” and most of the time, this emerging “new me.”
I will explain.
The “red me” is a firm believer in taking personal responsibility for one’s own life, not relying on the government to supply initiative in order to maintain one’s well-being.
The “blue me” has compassion for those who have hit hard times or are locked into a regional situation making it difficult for them to escape poverty, requiring that they are offered some assistance.
Yet the “new me” is fully aware that the government will never be able to take care of this situation. So I look at the few souls God sends my way and I become their motivator toward personal responsibility and the benefactor for a bag of groceries here and there.
The “red me” understands the need for immigration reform. Without some guidelines, we open the door to confusion, if not mayhem.
Yet there is this “blue me” who wants to make sure that this country is made available to as many seekers as plausible, without closing the avenues to them or making it too difficult to become part of the melting pot.
The “new me” is happy to welcome almost anyone as long as they are willing to learn English.
I don’t like abortion. I don’t care what name you assign to the process of eliminating the life of what could be a human being. In my head it is still killing.
But I must tell you—I don’t like any killing so don’t wave a flag in my face and say we have to go murder other people so we can have freedom.
I am of a mind that the phrase, “gun-happy” is an oxymoron.
I really don’t have a “red me” on race. I don’t think the Republicans are racist. My term for them would be “unacquainted.”
The “blue me” is determined to press flesh and blend colors until I cease to notice skin tone.
And the “new me” is fully aware that God made human beings so similar that we’re like children, fighting for the same prize and maybe even the same love of our Daddy.
I guess the “red me” believes in faith.
But the “blue me” hates religion.
So, the “new me” lives it out in my life instead of yapping so much.
The “red me” sometimes chuckles over climate change, considering that Mother Nature has done a pretty good job of handling things so far.
But the “blue me” knows that we are caretakers of this Earth, and the fullness of it, and we should do our best to be kind to mountains, trees and every living creature.
Which leads to the “new me,” who patiently listens for facts based on truth instead of emotion and will do my best to honor the Earth—my home.
The “red me” remembers when brotherhood was not a political issue.
The “blue me” would like to go back to that day.
And the “new me” spends time working on humility, just in case I might get the idea that I’m superior in any way.
There is a “red me” and a “blue me” and this born again “new me,” crying out for common sense.
How about you?
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Sit Down Comedy … December 14th, 2018
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Bad inflow, stinky outflow.
The human race has been given lots of bad information.
Thus the stink in the air.
The collaborators are at work. They have gotten together and either lined up in one brigade or clumped in another–those camps being the secular notion that all human beings are basically good, just needing to be left alone to prosper within their own consciousness, or the religious assertion that we are rotten, and if God doesn’t save us and constantly monitor our activities, we are fodder for hell.
It’s spooky.
And trying to find a real life out of these warring armies of philosophy makes the common person like me wish for some peace. The problem is, I end up less productive than I wish to be.
Human beings are probably one of the simpler forms of life.
We are not creatures in the jungle, struggling for survival. We are not bees, frantically trying to make honey, and we also are not cockroaches, scurrying across the floor to escape being squashed by grossed-out adults.
We have two buttons. Yes, just two: LESS and MORE. Should we press LESS or press MORE?
The conflict arises when our ego tells us to press MORE when LESS is needed, or our fear demands we press LESS when it’s time to hunker down on the MORE button.
The entire Gospel of Jesus was a less and more proposal. Don’t take my word for it–you read it and you’ll see the principle. He came to guide us into what should be done less, what should be thought less and what should be felt less, and what requires a good dose of more.
You don’t have to go any further than the Beatitudes to find this in full application:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit.”
In other words, less ego about being spiritual because you really aren’t, and God doesn’t expect you to be anything but human.
“Blessed are they that mourn.”
More compassion is needed for others if we expect to feel the compassion coming back our way.
“Blessed are the meek.”
Less struggling, fighting, arguing, back-biting and cursing will give us a chance to buy time for a shift in society’s thinking or a change of scenery.
“Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness.”
We all need more energy in trying to learn to achieve our goals by using the most common sense we can possibly muster.
“Blessed are the merciful.”
It’s made clear that the more merciful we are to others, the more we receive in return.
“Blessed are the pure in heart.”
The less we inundate our emotions with unnecessary arguments, the easier it is to see God working in our lives.
“Blessed are the peacemakers.”
The more we stay out of the fracas of politics and religious intolerance, the more we will be viewed as individuals who make things happen–good things.
“Blessed are those which are persecuted for righteousness sake.”
Yes, less worry about whether we will come out on top. We should stop being concerned about goodness going out of style.
And the culmination: “Rejoice and be exceedingly glad.”
Bluntly, less fretting about whether things are going to turn out well for us here on Earth and in the kingdom beyond.
Step into your day with your two buttons: LESS and MORE.
Then take the time, all the good things you’ve learned, and choose which one to press when it is the moment to render an excellent decision.
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Salient…July 23rd, 2018
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There are matters that are too important to ignore or leave to chance. These are salient moments.
Make a statement. Avoid questioning.
And by questioning, I mean the assumptions that other human beings draw about you based on very little information.
For some reason, we, as people, feel no need to apply facts when it comes to deciding who somebody really is, since they haven’t clearly stated their position one way or another.
This quick-to-the-punch evaluation can be based on facial expression, body language, race, gender, sexual orientation or whim.
If you don’t make a statement about things in life, you leave it to others to come with the questions, or to question for themselves and then form conclusions–which more than likely will be far from true.
Yet, because we have become so politically correct, afraid to voice an opinion for fear of being offensive, answers like “I don’t know” or “that’s a tough one,” or one I personally disfavor, “I guess it depends on the circumstances,” are prevalent.
Make a statement. Avoid questioning.
Let me give you some examples:
- I do not believe in killing anything unless I plan on eating it.
- I also decided not to judge anyone at any time unless I’m wearing a long, black robe and have a gavel in my hand (so far no offers).
- Every week I evaluate my compassion, success and motivation on whether I end up giving more than taking.
- And I freely admit that I’m a bigot. I favor one race. The human race.
So there you go.
Because I make statements, you don’t have to exhaust yourself coming up with a list of inquiries or challenging me in your private thoughts, developing your own profile about me.
So here is your salient moment:
If you’re not afraid to make a statement about what you believe, then you won’t have to field so many questions about what truly and honestly is in your heart.
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