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Pet your dog, chat with your parrot, feed your fish and find your cat (if you can)
Eat them. They help your immune system. Try them out with friends like cheese, sauces, flavorings and tucked away in stews.
Go out, take a walk and just see if any rocks cry out to you.
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I don’t know if you knew this or not, but there are grown-ups and there are grown-downs. It’s rather simple:
You might ask yourself, how can you tell the difference?
1. You might just be a grown-down if you think you’re always busy.
2. You might be a grown-up if you consider something funny and laugh to yourself, while simultaneously knowing you can’t exactly share it out loud because the grown-downs would think you were immature.
3. You certainly could be a grown-down if you’re constantly finding reasons to avoid doing something that you’re pretty sure would be good but you think it makes you sound more mature if you mull over the choices and decide not to do them.
4. You might be a grown-up if you just keep your mouth shut if somebody actually has a good idea before you step forward and try to shoot bullets in it.
5. On the other hand, you could be a grown-down if you find yourself spending a lot of time sighing, crying, complaining and disapproving.
6. You might be a grown-up if you ignore the difficulty of the opportunities that pop up in front of you and instead, find ways to turn them into adventures in living and giving.
7. You really are a grown-down if you believe that politics has a chance of doing something great.
8. You might be a grown-up if you stop waiting for politics to solve your problems—and you, yourself, go out and do something great, or at least something that could pass for it.
9. You might be a grown-down if you’ve cast your allegiance to a political party.
10. You might be a grown-up if you’ve found a good path for yourself and demand that the political parties begin to follow you.
11. You might be a grown-down if you know all the diseases, conditions and allergies that just might afflict your young children.
12. Or maybe you’re a grown-up if you realize that those kids only remain healthy by being exposed to the life around them and developing immune systems.
13. You might be a grown-down if you take God real seriously and become somber whenever serving Him is brought into the conversation.
14. You might be a grown-up if you seriously take God into every part of your life and enjoy the hell out of Him.
15. You might be a grown-down if you believe that sex and romance are the same thing.
16. Welcome to the grown-up world when you realize that sex is for fun and romance is necessary for the heart.
17. You might be a grown-down if you’re too concerned about your health.
18. You might be a grown-up if you’ve discovered a healthy concern.
19. You might be a grown-down if you’re laughing less, arguing, fussing and objecting more.
20. You might be a grown-up if you learn to laugh over the limitations of your reasoning power.
(No—that’s too dramatic.)
It’s more like strolling in a cow pasture, trying to avoid the bullshit.
(No—that’s too dark.)
Actually, it’s almost identical to walking into the room where your kids keep their toys, without your shoes on, in the dark. Because you know that somewhere, there’s something that’s not put away, and if you step on it, it’s gonna give you a nasty ouchy.
It’s kind of like what my friend, Vic, said about it:
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It had been nearly four years since I had been visited by the common curse of a cold. Even though I am around thousands of people who tote germs like little six-year-olds carrying backpacks to the first day of school, I am blessed with an immune system which bunkers me in safely to health.
That is, until I spent four days living in the same house with my children and grandchildren over Christmas. I followed this toxic exposure with a 900-mile drive to Houston, Texas.
So sometime on Thursday, right after I ate my Subway sandwich, the left side of my throat began to itch and tickle, radiating up to my ear.
I knew what this meant. I attempted denial, but when the right side of my throat joined the party, I knew I was in the first throes of incubating a common one.
Here’s the problem: I needed to share on Sunday morning at Bay Harbour United Methodist Church in League City, Texas.
I wanted to do a good job. I know everybody says that, but I like to use my talents at full speed, full throttle and full passion. They are my arsenal–to apologize for a mug that couldn’t win a beauty contest versus a coffee cup.
I was about seventy per cent. So what was I going to do?
Obviously, play to my strengths. For instance, talking is easier than singing.
Also, address the three demons that attempt to invade our foxhole in the midst of battle:
Excuses are the pavement on the road to failure. Fear is the rope that strangles the life out of hope. And disappointment is the drug that puts our effort to sleep.
As it turns out, I had a little more than I thought–maybe 78%. It was a glorious morning.
I don’t like getting sick. I fight it. But if I’m going to lose my faith, energy and direction every time I sniffle, I will probably not be worth very much and will snuffle out my possibilities.
Excuses, fear and disappointment–they arrive like a scratchy throat, making you believe that they’re here to stay.
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