i can’t farm out the work that only i can do when my soul springs a leak another plumber just won’t do i have to roll up my sleeves and put on my boots, put in a sump pump to drain out the slug, find the leak and determine the cause, change my behavior and…

there is a place of solitude it isn’t hard to find the challenge to enter in, is to be able to stop your mind because if you are not able to turn the system off, then you no longer own it, it now owns you seems like a simple thing to go to the place…

i collect people and i am careful whom i choose they aren’t going in a box or placed on a shelf, they have something that i want, and more often something that i need now i do not enter likely in the selections that i make, for i am well prepared to give more than…

sojourner says: ”if it ain’t worth giving away, it ain’t worth keepin” so from a toothless prophet i entertained his thought and me thinks he is right on target if i wouldn’t consider giving something away, be it an idea, or word, or thing it probably wouldn’t be good for me either he continued, ”…

i glad that’s over, what made you come down well we attract what we are but you turned your life around i was lazy and you were like me, so i hopped on board and let you carry me around you got tired of the same old, same old so you started to get honest…

HERE’S YOUR BULLET, THE ONE YOU SHOT AT ME I JUST STEPPED ASIDE AND LET IT PASS YOU WILL PROBABLY NEED IT AGAIN, BUT I WOULDN’T WASTE ON ME BECAUSE I’M NOT A TARGET YOU CAN HIT ANYMORE I FOUND THIS SHIELD AND I KNEW IT WAS THERE BUT I STILL THOUGHT IT NECESSARY TO…

what are you going to do, when all the pieces you put in place come unglued the best planned life always has a bump or two, when it all falls down what are you going to do i don’t wish you conflict but i’ve been here before and you’re riding so high there is only…

i may need a hand here and there sometimes a little prod or push but i will ask God up above, i won’t ask you there may be a time when God will need a helping hand that wouldn’t be my first choice i’ve notice we’re pretty close in the days the calendar has turned…

looking out the window i watch a woman throw a ball her dog waits patiently until she tells him to go and i investigate the field below in all it’s majesty and realize when i’m not thinking, then i actually see i notice many things that i didn’t notice before and as i further investigate…

not an easy child to raise, to say the least i had a way of wandering that caused me a lot of grief but through the hills and valleys you did the best you could to try and guide this wayward child and teach me when you could but i always had a different plan…