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Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his friends.
Today: The ANSWER you seek is in the QUESTION you ask.
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3 Things … February 20th, 2020
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You Can Do to Solve a Problem
1. Admit it is common
2. Isolate the part of the situation that is your responsibility and yours alone
3. Begin reconstruction right there
3 Things … August 15th, 2019
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You Should Stop Saying If You Want Your Life to Be Effective
1. I am so stressed out.
2. I am really, really busy.
3. I am sure I’m right.
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3 Things … August 8th, 2019
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That Assure Your Idea Will Sell
1. You found a problem and solved it.
2. People will feel cool using it and bragging to their friends about how smart they are.
3. It is cheaper than the customer thought.
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Three Ways to Blaze a Trail … October 16, 2014
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1. Find a forest that needs a path.
There are many bramble bushes of confusion in society today. It often seems that the only way they’re being addressed is by pundits who further confuse the issues. So you can become a force of nature simply by problem solving instead of problem debating.
The three largest difficulties facing us at this point are gender inequality, racial prejudice and pernicious apathy. There is plenty of room for trail-blazers.
Find a forest. Build a path.
2. Don’t be afraid of the bears and the wolves.
There are bears in our society who want to scare you away with their growl and claws, and wolves who would like to take a bite of you in order to establish their dominance. But just like the bears and wolves in the actual woods, they are more afraid of you than you are of them.
Walk confidently, let them see you coming, and stay faithful without apprehension.
3. Cut down some trees so people can see the forest.
You remember the old saying: “can’t see the forest for the trees.”
Sometimes nature gets in the way of our progress. There are institutions, organizations and even religious conclaves which must be trimmed down to make room for human beings to enjoy the forest.
We can no longer merely throw our hands up in the air and sigh, “What am I going to do?” and think that we’re going to have the life we presently enjoy, or anything resembling it, to pass onto our children.
You will need to blaze a trail, but like all the pioneers and explorers before you, you will have to escape your seat of comfort and learn how to take dominion in unknown territory.
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The Sermon on the Mount in music and story. Click the mountain!
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A Three-Headed Monster… May 15, 2014
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It is different. There’s no doubt about it.
After seventeen years of traveling the United States with Janet, crisscrossing the nation many times, I can tell you, there is a new attitude in the air.
Perhaps it’s wrong for me to use the word “new.” That connotes something positive or transforming. Instead, the experience is a bit regressive, harkening to a time when we made our decisions through the dark cloud of caution instead of the bright sunshine of optimism.
It may be the reason that the majority of our populace refers to themselves as “conservative”–simply because there’s an underlying message in that proclamation which cries out: “Leave me alone.”
If it is possible for me to share this without you feeling that I’m critical, then you have a true understanding of my heart.
There’s a three-headed monster at work. If you don’t understand this monstrosity, you could become discouraged, or even jaded.
- Hurt
- suspicion
- and apathy dictate the choices of those who are in power and even the souls of those who feel powerless.
And it does no good to ask them why they hurt, the cause of their suspicion or to attempt to stimulate them out of apathy. Because people feel hurt, they are suspicious of anything that comes along that might increase their pain, so they choose to do nothing, to protect themselves from further damage–thus apathy.
Both Janet and I have sat down and considered the fields set before us and have carefully chosen our approach.
The only successful approach to hurt is mercy.
Mercy is a magnificent virtue. It not only grants healing to the suffering in front of you, but gives permission to others, and even God, to be merciful to you.
In trying to broach suspicion, the only path that has any prudence is patience.
That’s why the Good Book says “in your patience you possess your soul.” No one in this country will be successfully overwhelmed, pushed, criticized or evangelized into a new awakening. It will take patience. And that requires that I find something I enjoy doing, keep pursuing better ways to do it and run on my own pleasure instead of a clock.
After you hurdle the hurt through mercy and broach the suspicion with patience, apathy will only be overcome by good cheer.
Yes, I believe we have a much better chance of laughing our way out of our misery than we ever will debating it or legislating it. I contend that discovering powerful reasons for being alive opens the door to problem-solving.
It is different. It requires that we minister to hurt, suspicion and apathy.
It will take merciful people who patiently are enjoying themselves and are not in a hurry for results … and bring along buckets and buckets of good cheer.
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After an appearance earlier this year in Surprise, Arizona, Janet and I were blessed to receive a “surprise” ourselves. Click on the beautiful Arizona picture above to share it with us!
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