Date Archives → March 2015

Question & Thought for March 30th, 2015!!!

Question & Thought for March 30th, 2015!!!
Good Monday Morning!
1. Question – As a leader running your organization, business, squadron, command, section or staff, have you ever thought that if only you had different people working for you things would work out much better?
2. Thought – In your humanness, you might hope your new staff will have the powers of angels, but the first one pointed out to you smells not like heavenly phosphorescence but like mud and dead fish.
The next one is not drawn from the halls of a university but is out collecting taxes in the name of the government that everyone hates. The selection process continues….Your staff and followers are plucked from trees, back alleys, and down at the pier.
As you gaze at your chosen few, you realize that this group will outlive you and must carry out the task you cannot accomplish without them: to change the world. You have three years to train them. What would you do?
This is the question that faced Jesus, a young leader…a leader who, like many of us, had to depend on others to accomplish a goal. (JESUS CEO by Laurie Beth Jones)

 

​Read. Drink water! and ​encourage those you lead.

 

Plat – love – be good begets do good! 
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Question & Thought for March 29th, 2015!!!

Question & Thought for March 29th, 2015!!!
Good Sunday Morning! A great week coming up!
1. Question – Have you ever asked God to ‘consider my meditation?’
2. Thought from Psalm V, v 1: Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.
There are two sorts of prayers – those expressed in words, and the unuttered longings which abide as silent meditation. Words are not the essence but the garments of prayer. Moses at the Red Sea cried to God, though he said nothing. Yet the use of language may prevent distraction of the mind, may assist the powers of the soul, and may excite devotion. David, we observe, uses both modes of prayer, and craves for the one a hearing, and for the other a consideration. What an expressive word! “Consider my meditation.” If I have asked that which is right, give it to me; if I have omitted to ask that which I most need, fill up the vacancy in my prayer. “Consider my meditation.” Let thy holy soul consider it as presented through my all-glorious Meditator: then regard thou it in thy wisdom, weigh it in the scales, judge thou of my sincerity, and of the true state of my necessities, and answer me in due time for thy mercy’s sake. There may be prevailing intercession where there are no words; and alas! there may be words where there is no true supplication. Let us cultivate the spirit of prayer which is even better that the habit of prayer. There may be seeming prayer where there is little devotion. We should begin to pray before we kneel down, and we should not cease when we rise up. (The Treasury of David by Charles H. Spurgeon)

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 – love – be good begets do good! 

Question & Thought & ANDs…Know thyself!

Question & Thought for the last Saturday in March 2015!!!

Question & Thought for the last Saturday in March 2015!!!
Good Saturday Morning!!!
1. Question – If you had to pick one food that would be best for your health – What would that be?
2. Thought – A few years ago, Rozin presented a group of Americans with the following scenario: “Assume you are alone on a desert island for one year and you can have water and one other food. Pick the food that you think would be best for your health.”
The choices were corn, alfalfa sprouts, hot dogs, spinach, peaches, bananas, and milk chocolate. The most popular choice was bananas (42%), followed by spinach (27%), corn (12%), alfalfa sprouts (7%), peaches (5%), hot dogs (4%), and milk chocolate (3%). Only 7% of the participants chose one of the two foods that would be best for support survival: hot dog and milk chocolate.
“Fat,” he writes, “seems to have assumed, even at low levels, the role of a toxin” in our dietary imaginations. I wonder why.
But while nutritionism has its roots in a scientific approach to food, it is important to remember that it is not a science but an ideology, and that the food industry, journalism, and government bear just as much responsibility for its conquest of our minds and diets. (In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan)

 

​Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth​

 

​, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food; and it was so. (Genesis 1:29-30)​platypusLg[1]

 

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​ – Don’t text & Drive. Read. Eat. Drink water and know.

– love – be good begets do good! 

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​the why behind your worldview!​
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Question & Thought for March 27th, 2015!!!

Question & Thought for March 27th, 2015!!!
Good Friday Morning!!!
1. Question – Is all of this – just noise to keep us from seeing?
2. Thought – “Let me see if I can confirm some of the speculation from earlier speakers … The Federal Reserve isn’t federal at all: you’re right, it’s basically a privately owned bank, a cartel that loans you your own money at interest, and its creation was the beginning of the end of the free-market system.
“The United States was built to run on individual freedom, that’s true, but because you’ve let these control freaks have their way with it for almost a hundred years, your country now runs on debt. Today, Goldman Sachs is the engine, and in case you haven’t realized it yet, the American people are nothing but the fuel.
“The Committee of Three Hundred exists. And the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Bilderberger Group, the Trilateral Commission, the Club of Rome – they all exist. And they are globalists: they’re wealthy and powerful beyond anything you can imagine. There are predators among them, absolutely ruthless people, but all of them together really do run things in this world, just like they say they do. There’s nothing secret about these societies, though. No hidden conspiracies: they do what they do right out in the open.
“See, the place where I work is where all the secrets get told, because they have to tell us secrets before we can hide them. But here’s the interesting thing: Do you know why I’m not worried about sharing any of this with you? Because they’re not afraid of the American people anymore, and especially not you people. All they’ve got to do is keep you bickering among yourselves, overwhelmed with conflicting information, or fretting about conspiracies or hypnotized in front of the TV and the computer, or standing around here thinking you’re fighting back, and you’ll never even get close to doing them any harm.
“There really is a New World Order on the way, but it isn’t new. It’s been coming for a long, long time. You let yourself get distracted with a thousand conspiracy theories, but there’s only one truth at the heart of them all. George Carlin said it better that I can: Up at the very top, it’s a big club, and you’re not in it. They got all the power, and you’ve got none of it.” (The Overton Window by Glenn Beck)

 

​Don’t text & Drive! Drink Water. Read. Find truth.​
Psalm XIV, v 1.

 

Platy – love – be good begets do good! 
Question & Thought & ANDs…Know thyself!