Sign Language for Dogs

the battle no longer is with you, the struggle is with me, and as i have a mind to ask, is this action right for me……..asking the question is noble indeed but far from following through………….for asking the questions is only as good as my willingness to do. so all…

i know there are things that are good for me, things my Lord likes me to do………….but lazy as i often am………..very little is all i do i know He watches over me and often shakes his head……..a defiant child still am i in spite of all He has done………

seems an unusual statement to make but i bet i’m not the only one who was afraid…………..to look below the surface and question what made me tick on a regular basis if you aren’t examining your action’s and motivations then what are you doing, perfect or just totally self-consumed.………..i have…

the longer i adventure i am clearly able to see……. the simpler i can keep things the better off i’ll be…… i am mesmerized by the simple working of a tool and how much can be accomplished, with a saw, hammer, nails and a rule….. while i can be impressed…

there will be no coup, no conflict, no more prolonged engagements, those battles are over and the fields are strewn with the remnants of those encounters. some wounds received as a consequence are still healing. there is an abundance of evidence that left to my own devices i am self-destructive…………………do…

now is the only place to be/ past is past/ the future i cannot see so i think the best place for me……..is now now doesn’t pretend or deceive my head, i do that playing make believe, what i would prefer is a waste of time, because now is all…

i see you standing on the hill looking out over the land the Goliath that you face is coming close at hand i do not see you tremble and a smile adorns your face some would say a facade, not so in your case i see you carefully select the…

”mine” as in ownership is a dangerous thing/ denotes we possess something that we aim to keep……..the problem with this thinking it restricts the flow of accepting and giving and letting things go everyone is different but many would agree things kept to myself quickly lose interest to me………for the…

the coolest thing about the GOD i know, He can be BIG, and yet He can be so small. when i have a daunting task at hand, i pray hard and i feel His large hands, and when i and tired and i need a friend, He sits on the…

only makes sense to share what we learn, so we should take turns sharing simple things we have found that make life easier as we walk this ground, we’ll just call them, ”tricks of the trade.” doesn’t really matter if you are old or young, we all feel better when…

what we see just depends on what we have programmed or rammed into our head/funny how we can look at the same thing and see it so differently/what if clear eyes saw each thing as it is………without the trappings of what the program says so if i am willing to…

the man i wish to see when i look in the mirror………matches the man inside of me………… these men must reflect each other or there is conflict……………….. i have found that the man inside determines and constructs the outside man……………. i picture the man and his substance and i pray…

”it will be okay,” i heard you say and it made me kinda mad/ but we lived through it and i have to admit i remember what you said it was me and my attitude that had an ax to grind, but we did what we could do and everything…

that room at the end of the hall has taken on many hues and colors more than it’s painted walls would suggest……………..it serves to house quests and occasional strangers in need of a place to rest….. sometimes they are happy and sometimes their lives are a mess, and the room…

I bet this is something you would never take the time to inspect, but from my perspective it makes a lot of sense……………if you want a meaningful friendship then one would expect…………you will need to invest time no problem…… on that we probably can agree, but the issue we run…

you see, i have come to believe that everything that happens is a blessing to me when i need a reminder that my power is limited at best, i get experiences that remind me of this so as i am talking with a friend a bomb dropped from heaven into…

these first thoughts of the day are causing me to be cross/ i care not for the subject and i want them to get lost……………….so i lay my head willing beneath the blade up above and when i let the rope go…………..the blade will lope it off. i see you…

i heard what you said, loud and clear, from the look on your face and the way you tossed your head.you never opened your mouth but your words covered the room, spoken by the fire in your eyes. i have to admit i never have received a clearer message since,…

what one is willing to do to resolve a disagreement or conflict in a relationship is determined by the value one places on that relationship worth a lot……..give a lot/ not good for all……………let it go

i will bend and i will stretch to help you feel better about yourself, but just so you know………there are places and things…….. were i ain’t gonna go so please don’t read my willingness as a free pass to suit yourself, because if that’s the attitude you take…………………there will be…

when i have a negative thought about what you say or do, i substitute an arrow prayer, for me not really for you……………….for i cannot change your actions nor your attitude, but i can choose how it affects me by praying a blessing for you……………matters not who is right or…

driving in my car /  a novel thought came to me  /what if i had 15 minutes and 15 words to leave my loved ones’ and humanity i would need to pray and ask God to pick them out, asking for His help with courage and with doubt ”choose wisely…

what do we know about the way things go/ looking back many lows were highs and many highs were low/ one thing that remains, although i never dreamed it would be so………………i miss my Dad his stubborness and his eccentric ways have infiltrated my life today and for all his…

i take myself into a ”time out” to keep life from living me/ because i have learned if i’m not careful life is controlling me……………….i an aware there are constraints on this plane as i go……………and i have no idea how much time is left and what i will experience…

i have my moments when i stand in the light and there are moments when the shadows rule the night…………….but i have no illusion about what’s wrong or right…………just my willingness to be honest with myself i have felt the warmth and seen the light and i know where to…

if i am insecure about me, i will need your scrutiny, and perhaps your stamp of approval would help me………………to feel better about my identity the need to be noticed is a definite sign that i’m not confidant about whom i am, and if i need you to authenticate me………………….that…

sure…………i’ll put that hot poker in my eye……………then i’ll get an attitude because i stepped aside from what i know to be true…………that i will go against myself to try and please you let’s see, how i shall cut off little pieces of me to try an accommodate you until…

it’s my fault…………………..hate to admit/ but i’m in charge of the respect i get and it i don’t care how you are interacting with me/if i don’t call you on it, then that’s on me went on too long and it was my fault i should have called you on…

when you are feeling tall and the need to make someone else small/ the only one that loses statue and height is the one who tries to slight/ and when you feel the urge to stomp go outside and have a romp because when you have the need to make…

we don’t know so we interject because we think we have a clue about what the Earth is supposed to do/ we look from a standpoint of a few chosen years and we are up in arms because we can’t see clear when you think you know how the Earth…