Pain

Pain

There are many people who are in a geat deal of pain, and on certain days these people will, consciously or unconsciously, inflict their pain on you.

(Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today, 5 February)

Dick Henthorn

29 June 2020

Reality Check

Reality has gone bad on us. It is loaded with pain, and hatred, and unfairness, and threats, and finally death. Reality can be so miserable that no one in his or her right mind wants to know about it. (Lewis B. Smedes, A Pretty Good Person, p. 74) 3 March 2013

Pain In The Neck

We change when the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of changing.
(Alcoholics Anonymous in Boundaries Face To Face by Cloud and Townsend, p. 26)
20 January 2013

Growth

Some people turn away from growth because they refuse to tolerate the pain of honest hindsight. (Touchstones, 18 March)

If you say you want to grow but make no steps to make it happen, it probably will not happen. (Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 26 March)

People who fear responsibility sometimes use a lifestyle of chaos to help them avoid responsibility -- and to block out their fear of it. (Craig Nakken, Finding Your Moral Compass, p. 85)

People learn by example, and you are a living example. (Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 30 April)

Persistance is necessary if you are to advance in spiritual things. (Twenty-Four Hours A Day, 18 March)
7 May 2012

Pay Particular Attention

Pay particular attention to those things that upset you or make you angry when they are pointed out. (Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 24 March)

How often we feel contempt for others when they do not respond in what we think is a fitting manner! (The Upper Room Disciplines - 2003, 11 July)

... the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself. (Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 16 March)

In relationships, it is quite possible to stay long after it is healthy or wise to do so. Just for today, be devoted to evaluating why you stay, what you must do to stay and whether or not staying is causing you spiritual pain. (Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 13 February)
4 May 2012

Reality

I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.  (In God's Care, 11 October)

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Quite a few of the music files I have on my computer are in the WMA format of Microsoft.  Too late I realized that this format doesn't work with: Spotify, Google Music or Box.net.  Yesterday I downloaded and installed a free program called Switch that will convert WMA files to MP3 files.  I used the program to modify the songs in three albums.

Melva and I decided to have two of her three sewing machines fixed.  Both are Singers.  One needed a routine tune up.  The other had two broken gears.  I bought this machine for Melva around the time we got married.  We had the broken gears replaced with gears whose designed has been modified.  The technician stated that the new design seems to have eliminated the frequent problems with the original design.  Now she has so many sewing machines she won't know which one to use.

Mr. Dickie

25 October 2011