i’m a young 65……….i hear you…….”still 65”…………today was the first day i ever used a pair of nail clippers to trim my nails…………..i would maul them, pull them, twist them…..whatever…….wouldn’t take the time to do it the right way……..so my hands always looked like i had been fighting with a bear……….. maybe it’s age, probably…

when you determine which peak you intend to scale…….you train for that peak………because they are all different……….all are taxing, trying, confusing, draining and treacherous…………..but different…………..like 2 people that look alike but eons apart…. you train………..but you have learned that no matter how hard or long you train……there will be an aspect you aren’t prepared for………then…

when you go to war, you have to anticipate the possibility of being wounded……………..so one must carefully access a decision to enter therein………… casualties are a product of war……………..if you have never been a soldier in a conflict worth dying for……..you have lived a selfish and self-centered life, to never have the knowledge that the…

i may run the world away……because i tell the truth……………..others may not be ready for it and that is their excuse……..but i will do what’s right for me regardless of how it looks and let the outcome fall where it will……..i remain true to myself…………… i am not here to satisfy you nor live my…

you don’t have the right to tell me what’s right for me……….just what’s right for you…………………….. you cannot control me and i have absolutely no desire to control you………….so in your nervousness about what i would say or do…………i have no interest in doing anything that could harm you………. there is a reason for things…

you will never know the value of being broken………….until you experience it…………….. you will hear of lessons learned from listening to others…………..and it is priceless…………but you cannot experience their brokenness…….you have to have you own……… when you are looking at your life and the pieces are scattered on the floor and you can’t seem to…

over the hills and through the woods life has run it’s course and i have been turned inside out and upside down and weathered it pretty well………through all of life’s challenges i have felt secure……..for i have always tested positive and for that i feel pretty good……………. that eternal spring finds a way to manifest…

i never had any expectations that things would work out like i planned………because i didn’t have any plans….. sometimes we don’t understand for lack of information and sometimes we don’t want to understand with plenty of information…… i had no ideas, you were wrong to assume……….people have a hard time accepting that someone is capable…

i know You……..i have seen You before………………….when i call……….. You are at my door…………..late at night as i stare at the sky…….i feel Your Presence by my side…………….i know You and i know You care about what i’m doing and how i’m living down here……………i know You, how You comfort me………and how You arrange opportunities…

it was easy to say that his emotions got away………..and left it questionable what he would do……………..but knowing that particular man…….there was only so much he could do………..a closer examination would begin to reveal the truth………..you weren’t afraid of him……………you were afraid …of you