Who Cares - What Matters
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Is it the worst job ever?
To be sure, it’s ONE job, few would ever apply, accept, or keep…and yet, there are well over a billion that holds the actual gut-wretching-never-ending position.
And to that there are only Two Words, never said enough days before, Day of, or days after. . .
T H A N K Y O U.
Go hug a mom…and if you can’t. . .
HUG A CHILD OF ONE–hard and just a little longer than usual!
…happy mother’s day–Every Day!
Did you see it?
I don’t normally watch 60 Minutes on Sunday’s…mostly because I rarely am able to put 60 minutes together consecutively…I didn’t last Sunday either; but you know what “THEY” say: “Timing is everything.”
I was REMOTELY switching through some channels when I chanced upon a 60 Minutes expose as it started…pure chance or….
It featured 104 year old Nicholas Winton. He was a young stockbroker in 1938 and he was severely distressed as he watched Hitler’s Germany march its way across Eastern Europe. When he was in Prague for a vacation he thought, “Someone should do something?” and he thought even more decisively, “Hey, I AM SOMEONE!”
WE say it’s easier if you love someone.
We say it’s easier if it’s a family member.
We say it’s the right thing to do.
We say it’s longer lasting than a Moment, A Day, or a Season.
We say. . . .
The truest Love wrapped in the warmest Compassion overcomes most likely everything in and out of this world.
That Love will grow weary.
That Love will become weaker.
That Love will Know all things, Believe all things, Endure all things.
That Love will never fail.
That Love will never end.
That Love is what we possess and have the power to parlay to and for the good of others.
Let someone else do it?
We are SOMEONE ELSE!
See. Be Free that wonderful gift that exists and you and begs to be shared…but never just once. It becomes more potent each time shared.
Make the Best time…the Next time!
Don’t waste too many breaths in between the two!
Love past a Season is the only Season that lasts and is worth Living…it’s always the Perfect climate! It’s the only time of the year that continues, any you’re it’s caretaker!
The World needs a little ‘SEASONING.’ None better than yours–EVER!
It’s the universal law of life, right?
YOU GIVE…YOU GET!
. . .But wonder if it’s not all that Universal…wonder if there’s NEVER a pay off, nothing added to a 401K or a meager Bank Account? Wonder if you got NOTHING for any, for EVERY thing you give. Would you still keep it up?
Wonder if truly the only thing you ever got for a kind act was only the shaking of a head, or frustration and anger…or, NO THANKS or Recognition in the tiniest of forms?
WOULD YOU STILL KEEP IT UP?
Wonder if all you got was just pure, unadulterated Emotions. A smile? A nod? A faithful, following dog? A hug? Witnessing someone truly benefiting from your kind, compassionate giving.
WOULD YOU STILL KEEP IT UP?
The World often becomes better not in big, huge ways, but small, almost unnoticed ways that often go UN-thanked and UN-paid.
See.
Be.
Free…that magnificent Light that allows others to not only be in the Brightness but also in the Warmth that often accompanies.
Make YOUR limelight be their Spotlight!
Find WAYS to out do, out give, out live yourself and you won’t have to worry about the World rewarding you…IT will be BENEFIT Enough!
RE-MEMBERING
It’s really my favorite way to spell R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R!
In a self-published book that I co-wrote with Cynthia Morgan back in the late 90’s, “RE-MEMBER–A MEMORY BOOK,” it’s how I spelled it and I explained in the Forward that it’s RE because it is actually putting back together the Pieces of a Person’s life as they have fit themselves into the puzzles of our lives.
Do we ever RE-MEMBER enough?
Certainly not a funeral, or around a holiday table, or out back during a family reunion picnic. It’s true isn’t it? Anytime we come together to RE-MEMEMBER, it’s never long enough, which is most likely the reason we continue to come up with little personal ways of RE-MEMBERING that will continue to unfold meaning and significance for each of us.
Stones on a Grave.
W H A A A A A T?
You may be wondering why people have marked up foreheads today…some, you might be able to see as an actual sign of a cross and others are going to look like smudges that have been unnoticed and unattended.
Before you go with a, “Ummmm, there’s a big black smudge on your forehead,” card, just know that it’s Ash Wednesday, the official day of the 40 days of Lent.
Most liturgical churches celebrate the occasion, but it’s not ever found in the Bible as one of the “OTHER” Silent Commandments. There are some peculiar settings for the ritual, though.
Smudged Cross Wearers are not trying to show off today and or pronounce, “HEY LOOK AT ME, I’M A REAL CHRISTIAN!”
The Smudge is worn to remind the Wearer and the See-er of the Smudge, “FROM DUST YOU WERE CREATED AND TO DUST YOU SHALL RETURN.”
Hmmmm, a nice way of saying, “DEAD-SINNER WALKING!”
But and it’s a rather Big, B U T, sporting the Smudge is actually meaningless unless there are some inner change that shows up outwardly much greater than the Smudge itself…and of the the two, this one hopefully is more noticeable and longer-lasting than the Smudge.
. . .For this, there is a Biblical Mandate from the book of Isaiah 58:5-7 and truly it transcends all Religions and becomes Universal because each Religion actually embraces:
“IS THIS THE KIND OF FAST I’VE CHOSEN FOR YOU, ONLY A DAY TO HUMBLE YOURSELF? IS IT ONLY THE BOWING OF ONE’S HEAD LIKE A REED AND FOR LYING ON SACKCLOTH AND ASHES? IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL A FAST, A DAY ACCEPTABLE TO THE LORD? IS THIS REALLY NOT THE KIND OF FASTING I HAVE CHOSEN FOR ALL: TO LOOSE THE CHAINS OF INJUSTICE AND UNTIE THE CORDS OF YOKE, TO SET THE OPPRESSED FREE AND BREAK EVERY YOKE? IS IT NOT TO SHARE YOUR FOOD WITH THE HUNGRY AND TO PROVIDE THE POOR WANDERER WITH SHELTER–WHEN YOU SEE THE NAKED, TO CLOTHE HIM AND NOT TO TURN AWAY FROM YOUR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD?”
. . .So, getting Smudged may not be of utmost importance, wearing the smudge for a day, even less, but literally S M U D G I N G others with your kindness, compassion, care, UN-CONDITIONAL LOVE, acceptance, and assistance (FOR MORE THAN A DAY OR A SEASON OR A MERE OBSERVANCE). . .well now. . .
May I be the first in line to not so much offer my broad forehead, but my Open Heart!
Join me!
GET SMUDGED and SMUDGE UNCEASINGLY!
Maybe it’s not so much about being Remembered as it is simply not getting FORGOTTEN. . . .
I’ve NOT been remembered LOTS as a minister, a Life-Celebrant, a Spiritual Care Coordinator with hospice, a Wedding Liturgist, a Speaker for Leadership, Communication, Spirituality, End-Of-Life Issues. Maybe too many times. But I have literally, powerfully, emphatically NOT been Forgotten.
Most of the phone calls I get to fulfill any of the roles above is merely been because I’ve NOT been forgotten.
I’m sincerely, intimately, “THAT GUY!”
“SMILE, YOU’RE ON CANDID CAMERA!”
Sounds simple enough doesn’t it?
If you’re old enough, it was great entertainment, this show, Candid Camera with Alan Funt which ran from 1960-1967. It always caught unsuspecting people who were usually placed in confusing, impossible, embarrassing, ridiculous and hilarious situations, while their reactions were caught on a hidden camera.
Funny, what made for great entertaining, not-to-hurt-anyone-TV that ran for some seven years, once a week, is now a 24 hour, 7 day a week, 365 days a year event.
With Social Media and everyone having a Smart Phone, and NSA being accused of the modern day nightmare come to reality, Big Brother…we’re all movie stars…willing or unwilling and unsuspecting, aren’t we?
We all think of it and more. . .we all wish for it from time to time, don’t we?
Magic!
No Correction: REAL MAGIC!
I conducted the funeral of a Magician, first and only time.
As far as funerals go, there wasn’t anything too special about it.
“THEY”
Whenever I hear about the “THEY’S” of the world, I don’t pay a whole lot of attention. Do you?
“THEY” say,
KINDNESS
COMPASSION
LOVE
. . .are the most powerful forces in the World.