Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Insane

So yes, there is biochemical imbalance and genetic predisposition but . . . 


SOMETIMES there is UNFORGIVENESS UNKINDNESS and UNBELIEF 


I was a digital circuit troubleshooter back in the day. Incredibly complex telecommunication circuit boards were sent to my work station. 


Literally hundreds of electronic components could be on these "defective" circuit boards.


At first it was overwhelming trying to fix these things. I would sit for many hours, sometimes for many days. I would have to read through "the manual" or manufacturer handbook multiple times. Schematic diagrams were also useful but could become a headache.


Doc was my supervisor. He watched me when I first started the job. He admired my diligence reading through the handbook and 'tracing out' the circuit diagrams. 


He said this was useful for the difficult cases which he said in his experience were rare.


He said The BIG 3 most difficult to "diagnose" but easiest fixes were:

  1. Dirty contacts
  2. Broken connections 
  3. Foreign objects or bugs


I became good at it after a while. 

I realized it was often a "little" thing that caused THE BIG DEFECT.


My mental health I have found after living though more than fifty decades, working with mental 

health professionals and studying numerous theories of psychology usually comes down to Doc's big 3.


  1. When I 'clean up' my thinking many big problems go away
  2. Broken connections like unhealthy relationships can be a big problem 
  3. Foreign object - an insect, dust, a misplaced wire or a nut, even a crumb a small food particle have been known to "shut down the system. 


Before I get to the expensive therapies and the pharmaceuticals 

I usually ask myself about 


MY UNBELIEF 

MY UNKINDNESS 

MY UNFORGIVENESS 


SOMETIMES the issues go away.

The chronic anxiety, The OCD, the manic depression, the paranoid or schizoid behaviors even the debilitating migraines sometimes mysteriously disappear.


SOMETIMES.


Sunday, March 10, 2019

shudder




There are very few things we can know for sure as humans 


The Bible says


There is one thing we all can know for sure . . . EVERY SINGLE HUMAN !


It's "clearly seen"


Every one of our relapses, our 'backsliding' begins here


"they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations"


We ALL know

What is 


RIGHT

TRUE

GOOD


We ALL choose


We ALL see

Consequences of

Our choices


We DONT 

always 


A ccept 

B elieve

C onvert

 

This abc cycle

Is daily, hourly, minutely


This abc the Bible calls

REPENTANCE?


"godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death."


There is a bible verse that makes me shudder - "he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons."



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Sunday, March 3, 2019

Unclad

Clothed, unclothed?


There is a "putting on" that is hypocritical

Because it is
wrongly motivated

It is pretending

However

There is no doubt that
I need to be 'covered'

Is Naked Ron
Or inappropriately clothed Ron 'acceptable' to God?

NO NO NO

"Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them."

"I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness"

This is not
Hypocrisy or
Pretend

This is faith

"Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering"
These are not
AUTOMATIC

I have to
'PUT THEM ON'

Mere praying will not get this done, this takes a conscious deliberate act of will - this is OBEDIENCE

Meekness
Mercy
Kindness
Humbleness
Patience

Do I get up every day
fully 'dressed' with these?

Let the family testify!!

put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

And be renewed in the
spirit of your mind;

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

"above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness."

AMEN





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