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Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his friends.
Today: Is it good? Or is it bad? Here are two questions to help figure things out.
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Sensitize … June 14th, 2020
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Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his audience.
Today: Cring talks about seat belts. What was required to persuade humans to wear them? “People aren’t evil, but they’re just not very good”
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Sit Down Comedy … January 31st, 2020
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At the Olympics, there is no award given for completing the training and earning the right to appear in the games.
There is no recognition for the person who displays the best marching during the opening ceremonies or who has the brightest costume for the closing cavalcade.
There are three medals—a gold, a silver and a bronze.
And even though there are changes continually going on in our world, when it comes to the human race and our emotional, spiritual, mental and physical well-being, the same three distinctions have been available since the very dawn of time.
The only worrisome thing comes when we begin to believe that these three “medals” can be altered, or the rules can be changed to apply different criteria.
Many imposters have come along, attempting to replace the gold, silver and bronze of human expression.
- Greed
- Patriotism
- Revivalism
- Politics
- Open-mindedness.
- Traditionalism.
- Self-centeredness.
- And sloth.
Although these have been touted by certain generations, each one has failed to bring about any betterment.
There are still just three medals.
They’re the same three I had to learn, my grandfather had to learn—and Adam failed to learn because he got tied up in his own interpretation and ended up “west of Eden.”
The gold: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Nothing in this world works until we learn how to love ourselves, and become emphatic that every human being is granted the same respect and honor.
The silver medal: Give and it shall be given unto you.
Thinking that anything can grow without seed or that we can prosper minus investing ourselves, our time and our fortunes may be the breeding ground for evil.
The bronze medal: Choose and be faithful.
There are innumerable things we can choose to do that are full of kindness, prosperity and wisdom which only require our faithfulness.
There is power in faithfulness.
So you can see:
At no point are we to lose our love for self.
Nor should we ever anticipate that goodness will fail to come back to us.
And our power of choice endures as long as we remain faithful.
The Olympics of human determination continue today.
You will need to do more than train. You will need to compete.
And if we actually start stretching for gold, silver and bronze, the world will be affected.
Then we can all raise a jubilant cheer.
Sit Down Comedy … November 1st, 2019
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“It’s simple.”
Remember when that was a positive statement?
Fear, anxiety or nervous energy might grip your soul, and someone would come along and reassure you that what you were about to do wasn’t terribly complex, and had certainly been done many, many times before.
Then…something changed.
I don’t know exactly what it was—you can sit around with your friends and develop all sorts of conjectures on what caused us to devolve from creatures who were grateful for simplicity to a more pompous, edgy and cranky configuration that seems to prefer difficulty and struggle.
Matter of fact, play a game.
Sit down and watch some television—the news, dramas and comedies—and count how many times you hear:
“Life is complicated.”
“It’s not gonna be easy.”
“Somebody just needs to grow up and realize there’s lots of twists and turns.”
“We need to be ready to take on the battle.”
Maybe I’m lazy, but I don’t like to work harder than I need to.
Maybe I’m stupid, but I don’t want to learn things I don’t have to learn.
And maybe I’m immature, but I believe life was bestowed upon us to find happiness, not to fester despair.
So if you’re in the mood to escape an overly tangled web, let me simplify things:
There aren’t thousands of different cultures, millions of different personalities and billions of unique individuals.
Human beings fall into two easy-to-understand categories:
1. I am looking for a world which will adjust to me.
2. I am learning to adjust to my world.
And when you meet people, you can tell immediately which of the two philosophies they favor.
Nervous energy, a tinge of anger, wringing hands over the problems in the world? This is a person who believes the world has a responsibility to adjust to him or her.
On the other hand, people who are easy-going and relaxed are travelers who realize that all the adjusting has to come from them—because the world was in business before they were born.
You can feel free to find another explanation. You can assume there is a possibility for eight billion pathways on this planet that has 27,000-mile waistline.
I would not criticize you or stand in your way. After all, it is your journey, not mine.
But for those “Simple Simons” like myself, who would like to find a more concise explanation, I offer the two-category primer.
So what will it be?
Are you going to keep seeking a world that will adjust to you? Or will you learn how to adjust to the world?
It is not an issue of good and bad. It is not an issue of righteous and evil, but rather, a simple determination on how many smiles you get to sprout in a given day.
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The R Word … June 4th, 2019
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Karl Marx was incorrect.
He contended that “religion was the opiate of the people.”
Actually, being religious does very little to ease the pain.
In fact, religion is the methamphetamine of the people. It robs them of the nutrients of abundant life while simultaneously turning them into raging, frightful lunatics.
So the word that should never be spoken again that begins with the letter R is:
RELIGIOUS
I, for one, don’t want to hear it again. For I have studied:
The decline of the religious mind
It begins with:
1. I believe in God.
An innocent premise. Maybe even one that could lend itself to humility.
2. I study God’s Word.
Which God’s Word? Or should I say whose God’s Word? Or maybe better phrased, what portion of God’s Word?
3. I follow God’s Law.
Now we begin to leave reality. Since none of us is righteous—not one—what would make us think that our particular brand of being religious could make us faithful to what we perceive to be the Law of God?
4. I spread God’s Commandments.
5. I see evil.
6. I challenge evil.
7. I judge those who do evil.
Somewhere in that process, the believer ceases to be one who believes and instead, becomes one who insists we believe in him or her.
8. I believe these workers of iniquity are less than me because they don’t know God.
9. I am helping God make the world a pure place.
10. I attack evil doers.
The difference between a congenial soul singing a hymn in a sanctuary and a zealot terrorist blowing up a building in the name of God is often no more than six weeks of concerted, devious training.
“Religious” will never allow you to see God, but only focus on things that you deem godless.
It is possible to live a spirited life of faith without being religious.
But for God’s sake, if you can’t, spend more seasons in prayer and less time around people.
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1 Thing You Can Do This Week To Resurrect Your Life
Publicly Crucify Your Sins
Although your instincts may be to duck away, hide your faults or come up with an explanation to excuse your errors, the human race around you is geared to dig up unseen naughtiness, exploit it and make the doer of such deeds look not only evil, but treacherous for trying to disguise the actions.
It’s been proven throughout history.
Those Who Confess Fare Better
Those who confess their sins before they’re forced to do so always fare better than the hapless shysters who attempt to use legal means or clever methods to get an adjusted verdict from the court of public opinion.
Without trying to be controversial, I will go so far as to tell you that if Adolf Hitler, arguably the most sinister sinner of all time, had realized that he was losing the war, negotiated peace and tearfully articulated the darkness and foolishness of killing the Jews, he would have certainly been punished severely—maybe even had his life taken—but still would have been granted a bit of human grace.
It is ironic that we teach diversion and lying while simultaneously tracking down those who use such practices like we are on the hunt and they are the foxes.
Have your own resurrection this year.
Come clean
Hang yourself up on the cross for a brief time, so that your decision to recant ignorant ways can be acknowledged by the masses, your old ass can be buried, and you can rise to new life.
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3 Things … March 28th, 2019
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That Just Might Make a Difference in the Landscape of Human Harmony
1. Pursue, promote and point out goodness instead of condemning, chatting up or capsulizing evil
2. Improve one small thing in your life each and every day, and sit back and enjoy the results
3. Stop honking your horn
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