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Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his friends.
Today: We’ve bought into the idea that “Earth is hell.” Ridiculous, says Cring.
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Sensitize … July 6th, 2020
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Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his audience.
Today: Cring reminds us: Earth didn’t come to us–we came to Earth.
Understanding this helps us avoid disappointment.
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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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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)
Salient…May 28th, 2018
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There are matters that are too important to ignore or leave to chance. These are salient moments.
Taking into consideration the attitudes and climate in our nation, there are certainly times you might feel like you’re stuck in an elevator with a life insurance salesman, a Mormon missionary and a flasher. It is very difficult to escape without being offended by one of them.
Yet before you fall into a pit of despair or decide to give in to trending thoughts, you might want to consider that there are certainly ongoing principles that need to be honored. Even though it may seem that people break these cardinal rules and get by with it, ultimately, there’s always a reckoning.
There are three words that make the world go ’round: “I was wrong.”
Without “I was wrong” nothing can ever be right.
If you can’t say “I was wrong,” you inevitably resort to lying.
Also, if you’re unable to say “I was wrong,” it leads to an immediate situation: “I am wrong.”
In other words, I continue to be wrong as long as I don’t admit I was wrong.
For most certainly, nothing we ignore ever changes.
Nothing is transformed merely by the passage of time.
Everything must be evaluated, confessed and revised. Otherwise, we cannot separate ourselves from wrong.
I personally don’t mind visiting “wrong” as long as I don’t have to live there. And the only way to keep from dwelling in the condition of being wrong is to admit that you stumble.
Because if you are unwilling to say “I was wrong,” you enter the realm of “I am wrong.” Then the ultimate curse that befalls you is “I will be wrong.”
So no matter what your position is in life, if you’re slow to say “I was wrong,” by the law of nature, you will continue to be MORE wrong as time passes.
You can object. You can try to disguise your iniquity, but your foolishness will be exposed.
So here is your salient moment: “I was wrong” is the only way to ever become right.
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Ask Jonathots … December 8th, 2016
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What do you think about the idea that people get depressed during the holidays? Do you believe in “Blue Christmas?”
The diagnosis of depression is applied to everything from copouts to extreme physiological disorders. It is a shame that such a legitimate concern is rendered questionable by people who simply want to feel sorry for themselves.
So when we talk about depression, we’re referring to three different regions of human behavior:
- Fear of the afar
- Fear of our surroundings
- Fear borne from a chemical imbalance within
So when dear hearts come to us and say they’re in no mood to celebrate Christmas because it leaves them sad, it is important that we listen to them and decide if they’re expressing some apprehension about the world around them, some feeling of a lack of appreciation by those they interact with, or whether the recent concern about the holidays is aggravating what seems to be an ongoing thread in their lives.
Those who are involved in conspiracy theories or worry about what’s going on in our world can often be comforted with good cheer, a sense of well-being and the knowledge that someone cares for them.
Others who are disappointed by their surroundings or who have been subjected to mistreatment are often healed right before our eyes by a spirit of gentleness and kindness.
And those who have physiological roots for their depression need our encouragement to see a doctor so they can feel better.
So during this holiday season, when you run across people who are expressing misgivings, start with some good cheer and give them a listening ear, and see if that doesn’t lift their spirits.
If it does, you are like the angels on high, who declared “peace on Earth, good will toward men.”
But if your attempts at healing still leave them feeling empty, you might use your holiday joy to encourage them to seek an answer and find out the source of their depression within.
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Ask Jonathots … May 19th, 2016
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I heard an Olympic official on a national television news show say, “People will always cheat. It’s human nature.” Do you think this is true?
“To err is human and to forgive is divine.”
This is the classic axiom.
Unfortunately, the proverb has a missing piece. Actually, it should state: “To err is human, but to repent is human also.”
There are two little devils that chase the human heart, trying to turn us into scoundrels.
Ignorance and arrogance.
We only become hapless when we try to combine these two and justify one with the other.
For instance, I may say something stupid, which is completely forgivable unless I try to convince you that it wasn’t stupid at all–you either misunderstood me or you’re not hip to my particular perception of life.
Ignorance is forgivable.
But when it links up with arrogance, not even divinity can salvage such a stubborn creature.
So my problem with the statement provided in your question is that as long as we view cheating as a normal side road taken by humans which needs to be avoided and confessed, we are fine. But when we begin to believe it’s part of our character–an arrogant segment of us that cannot be removed–we not only lose our redemption, but we lose any portion of us to redeem.
So what is the correct profile?
- Ignorance happens.
- Ignorance is exposed.
- Ignorance is confessed.
- Forgiveness is granted.
- Knowledge expands.
This is the process that makes a solid human being.
But if we express ignorance, have it exposed and we defend it with our arrogance or insist that what we have done is “no worse than anyone else,” then forgiveness is impossible and knowledge is stalled.
Repentance is not a noble action, but rather, a necessary position that all humans take to make sure that we progress in wisdom and understanding instead of finding ourselves falling back on the failing positions of former times.
So in conclusion, I would say that ignorance happens, and as long as arrogance doesn’t show up, repentance can open the door to forgiveness, which allows knowledge to rule the day.
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