Day 67: Sacrifice


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The lock locked.

The tie straightened.

The button buttoned.

 

The tear fell.

The heart pumped.

The pen signed.

 

The accepted challenge read,

 

If it would save someone’s life later, could you walk away, indefinitely, so it would?

If you could, would you have the wherewithal to usher in its unplotted course?

 

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Day 66: Lighthouse


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I am the lighthouse. The sailors cannot find dry ground if I do not shine.

The lost cannot find the way if I do not chart the path.

This is our faith.

This is our teaching.

This is our burden.

And, this is our reward.

When the light dims, it is either replaced or it goes out.

Yet, energy is never lost, it can only be transformed.

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Day 341: Rollcall


 

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Stand at attention.

You have been assigned a new mission.

Be on guard.

Always ready to take charge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Day 340: Enjoy the Harvest


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When the fruit is ripe, it is time to take the first bite.

 

 

 

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Day 339: Cultivation


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If you cultivate the right things there will come a time

where cultivation is no longer required.

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Day 338: Fractured Truth: A Twenty-Nine-Year Journey


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It all mattered.

It all held a level of significance.

It all molded you.

 

Not all of it remains.

Not all of it should be cultivated.

Not all of it carries forth with you.

 

Today I came face-to-face with my reality.

And, I fancied it.

We’d known each other before we knew ourselves.

 

As we set side by side, we knew each other still.

She had been my childhood best friend.

Back before Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat.

Back when we exchanged weekly if not daily handwritten letters.

Letters I still have in my mother’s attic.

We separated not because of a disagreement, but due to emotional distance created by unspoken truths.

 

Haunted by the same secret we went our separate ways.

A secret that changed us without changing us.

Our secret no longer secret.

Our mutual truth no longer remains hidden.

There has been too much living to ever die again.

 

Few people have held her spot.

Mostly, because they never got the shot.

 

Reminensencing she brought it up, my adolescent reaction.

Her adolescent response.

Not to the truth, but to the omission.

Even now, it lingers.

She says, it severely impacted her formative years until her son appeared.

 

The reminder as we sat in the Central Jury room humbled me.

Our adolescent attempts at self-expression showed our ineptness.

Hurt turned into acting out.

And acting out metamorphosis into unforeseen consequences.

 

We have seen each other a few times since then.

But little did we know, the lives we then lived would soon come undone.

A twenty-nine-year friendship almost died, because of the truth we could no longer hide.

 

No more secrets.

No more excuses.

No more reasons to remain reclusive.

 

All the misinterpretations now clarified.

I am reminded why clarity is so important.

Fearful of a truth we both shared because we feared what the truth might shed.

 

It all mattered.

It all held a level of significance.

It all molded us.

 

Not all of it remains.

Not all of it should be cultivated.

Not all of it carries forth with us.

 

But we now know,

No more secrets.

No more excuses.

No more reasons to remain reclusive.

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Day 337: Duality


 

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Duality.

It appears in all of the creation.

It is neither menacing nor benign.

It simply exists to be or to become.

Equivalent to so many other principles and concepts until the action occurs it lingers in a temporal fashion.

It is neither this nor that.

It is none and all.

It is a noun waiting for its verb.

Heart.

Mind.

Soul.

Passion.

Desire.

Goal.

Insert the right verb and change the heart.

Insert the wrong verb and darken the mind.

Marry the right verb and claim the soul.

Marry the wrong very and snuff out the passion.

Replace the right verb and realize your desire.

Replace the wrong verb and relinquish your goal.

Duality.

It is neither this nor that.

It is none and all.

It is a noun waiting for its verb.

Careful is the one who seeks before they speak.

The river runs wide.

The currents run fast.

Sometimes you can be both first and last.

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Day 336: Watchful


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The hairs stood up.

The skin prickled.

The eyes scanned.

The heart pounded.

The ears opened.

The currents have changed.

The mood has shifted.

The waves have grown.

The Earth tilted.

The moon shifted.

The time was now.

The action was swift.

The deed was done.

And, the curtains closed.

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Day 335: Anchor


 

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What is an anchor?

Anchors are strong.

Anchors provide support.

Anchors hold vessels in place.

Anchors deliver content to the public.

Anchors can also prevent you from  moving when you need to move.

Anchors can become a hindrance.

Anchors left unsecured can cause you to unexpectantly drift off course.

Anchors reliant on others can distort the truth.

 

Anchors exert power in a team sport.

Anchors attract consumers in a retail structure.

Anchors are fixed similar to true North.

Placing the anchor in the wrong position can cost you the race.

Placing an anchor in quicksand can sink the ship.

 

What is my point?

For every use, there is a consequence for improper positioning.

You can have all the support, all the talent, and all the wherewithal in the world.

Yet, if you use an anchor out of position, you will sink instead of swim.

 

You do not place detergent in the water after all the dishes have been washed.

You do not paint the wall after all the pictures have been hung.

You do not prepare for the job after the candidates have been selected.

 

So often we hear people say, “I was in the right place at the right time”.

Conversely, they might say, “I was in the wrong place at the wrong time”.

In both of these statements, they were in a position to receive some obscure action or value.

 

Before I wrote my first sentence, I had to learn my first word.

Before I learned my first word, I had to be taught my alphabets.

Before I was taught my first alphabet, I had to learn how to talk.

 

Every development had an equally important precursor.

Without the first, there can be no latter.

 

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Day 275: A Prayer for Wisdom


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The dissection of wisdom.

Like most things in life, the first line is not the last line, except, maybe in poetry. {Inward smile}

Case in point: the dissection of wisdom

Pray for wisdom & our Father in heaven will give it to you.

True, he is faithful & his promises are true.

Yet, what is silently hidden in the prayer is the required response.

Wisdom comes through overcoming the insurmountable.

Wisdom comes through facing adversity with limited resources.

Wisdom comes through losing the one you love, to find, the one you need.

Wisdom like winning an Olympic medal is not easy. It requires dedication, sacrifice, conditioning, vision, and follow-through against all odds.

So pray for wisdom, but understand the prayer is the opening line of your favorite book.

Achieving wisdom comes through how you write the story.

The dissection of wisdom.

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Day 274: The Other Side of Enlightenment


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Sometimes, I miss the luxury, naivety, afforded me in my younger years.

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Day 273: The Nuts and Bolts of Relationships


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Relationships are like nuts and bolts.

Over screwing the bolt could strip the grooves beyond repair.

Use the wrong size nut and it will not fit.

Your use of force will make or break your relationship.

There are many degrees of force.

Emotional force.

Kinetic force.

Mental force.

Physical force.

Physiological force.

Silent force.

Levels and types of force are akin to the air we breathe.

If someone hands you a 5/16 bolt do not place a ¾ nut on it.

In turn, use the socket wrench when the increased power from a handheld drill, would warp the bolt.

The things meant to us may require work, but they rarely require force.

The definition of force indicates an exertion of power greater than required to achieve the desired goal.

Find the 5/16 nut in the basket of ¾ nuts and find your true pairing.

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Day 272: The Pie Recipe for Cake


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It is virtually impossible to use a pie recipe to make a cake.

It is the same with life.

Self-focus is the key to eliminating barriers to one’s success.

Constantly focusing on someone else, hinders you from growing into your own potential.

Grow or stagnant the choice is yours.

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Day 235: Changing Perspectives


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To really change the outlook on your life, change how you look at the events and people in your life.

Instead of looking at how someone did you wrong, look at what their actions taught you.

With each experience, look for the benefit, look for the lesson, and look for the blessing the experience left behind.

I have had countless experiences, none of them were bad. They were all necessary to develop within what would be required with-out.

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Day 234: Giving Thanks


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I am giving thanks for what some might consider a strange reason.

Every day I leave work cognitively exhausted.

This realization makes me happy.

Since I can remember, much of what I do comes easy. I am not bragging, it just does. I am blessed like that. It is why I give thanks to God for the blessings.

Rarely have I exhausted my cognitive functions during any given assignment or any given day.

My nerves, yes!

My physical capacity, of course!

But my cognitive functions, I simply can not recall a time in space where such  a thing is true.

I am genuinely happy, because when I leave work I have a feeling way down deep – that I have left all I had to give on the field.

What an awesome feeling?

Thanks be to God. You knew exactly what I needed.

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