Quotes:

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” Albert Einstein

While it may seem simplistic, I find this notion important to recovery. Folks trapped in neurotic and psychotic behaviors often continue to try the same thing over and over, denying that it is failing. To change your mind you have to change your thinking, to change your thinking you have to expose it to new thought.

"I continue to work on my ego. The need to control, conform and to judge are conventions and struggles that I work toward growing beyond. Inches at a time. I continue to use my faith, meditation, awareness and prayer to stomp on these leaches. Through love and faith in God all things are possible." Tom

I admire tom's transparency. I am aware of my control issues, but had not walked through conformity.

Oh No Positive Thinking!

Sam Chan has good words to say about positive thinking. He reminds us that the bible instructs the weak to say 'I am strong'. If you are suffering from compulsive habits don't let it get you down. It proves you are human, and means you are alive. Try to focus on being 'strong' despite your weakness. What strengths do you have?

Linkage..

Info on social phobias. I did the test and it says I do not suffer from social anxiety.

Cheaper Than Therapy?

I snapped this at a local Mexican restaurant the other day. The table tent depicts a decadent dessert as as an alternative to highly priced counseling. (My convictions about the healing power of Mini Molten Chocolate Bunt cakes aside), we are in an era of DIY, where software and hardware allows one to be their own counselor. In some cases this is good. We could all assume responsibility for our well being and stop neglecting the multitude of resources so many others have not. However, we were not meant to do it alone. Christ surrounded himself with others and relied on them and they on He. Isolation and addiction go hand in hand.

Local development iQuestions.com threatens to lower your therapy bill with free video advice. While I think perhaps some of the counseling is slightly underqualifed, hearing many peoples 'takes' on war torn issues is a great way to discover your own truth.

Note: They might want to reconsider the link that says "orgasm: coming soon!"

Quote:

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."

George Bernard Shaw

How To: Man Hug

VideoJug: How To Give A Great Man To Man Hug

Feeling a little OCD?

Or as my brotha' Rich says "CDO..gotta be in the right order" then popping some virtual bubble packing is just for you. All the pleasure, no mess and you never run out.


Start popping here

Moods in Ur Tubes

Chill Master Flex
gives the internets' the gift of serenity. Calming music, tranquil waters, fireplace, or ocean sunset simply to enjoy via your web browser. I find it delightful. Thanks 'flex.

Spoiler:

BUT HE LIVES AGAIN!

Quote:

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
-- Bill Cosby

via Mark O. Wilson

More on the power of hugging...

Via Yahoo news robber has some wine and asks for a hug and then leaves.

See previous hug video post here.

The Virtual God

Ahh I just completed my move back to Boise. It was a trial as I could not get a moving van out of Twin Falls for 5 days! But the 'eagle has landed'. It gave me some time to take my kids to the mountains. It also gave me 5 days away from internet, DVR, cable TV, cell phones, text messages, iPods, sattalite radio, books and magazines. Unwired. Made me consider the human aptitude for creating the virtual god. I feel compelled to check my email almost every day. But do I check God's inbox? He has faithfully provided at least one message for me every days since I started with Him for the last 24 years. I am not one who see's devotions as God's guilt trip relationship. He's not like that. It's about being in love with Him. Yeah discipline, structure, and order can be good, but it can be empty. Imagine telling your wife it is time for her 9:00pm kiss? God does not require a cold robot heart but one of flesh. We all need a natural authentic intimacy.

One thing I learned at last year at Vineyard fellowship was to look for God's daily revelation. If I don't look I miss it. It is there for every person in any situation, I know this to be true. Drudgereport, Foxnews, cannot provide it. Yes, I like the Laodocean Church am guilty of leaving my first love. I raise my hand in shame. I can lead a devotion group faithfully every Tuesday for a year and rely on the Spirit to empower me, I can work on a major national outreach program for the Kingdom, and I can model His love in my relationships with my wife, children, and friends. Yet be internally bankrupt,

as my lifestyle has been cashing checks my heart has not yet deposited.

Like many, when I am with God, I am good, do good, feel good. But when I am away there is a vacuum, healthy hobbies, interests and pursuits do not fill it. Unhealthy sinful behaviors only seem to make the chasm deeper and my solitude more desperate. But when the world is as it is and not as I would have it, He finds time to get me to stop, put down my hammer, and breathe. His Spirit softly reminds me of my youth when we danced on the crust of the earth together. Where our perfect love kept me from consuming fears. When miracles were not events, just what I expected from an all powerful Yahweh. How I was His and He was mine. Spiritual romance. Passion. I have learned that the surrendered life is the only one worth living. I a have learned through loss and an pain to accept the things I cannot change to change the things I can and look to God to help me know the difference. I have learned to "be" and not to "do" as a way of putting off my pains and losses. Relationships are no longer the terror they once were as I learn to know myself and be true. However, there is one relationship I need to improve; that is the one with my Father in Heaven, ('Howard' as Henry Winkler called him in 'Heroes'.), Today I will draw closer to Him by simply making myself available even if I have to "log off" to log on.