Sign Language for Dogs

don’t be thin-skinned and don’t take everything as an assault but if you throw hatchets i’m not gonna walk i’ll avoid confrontation until there isn’t ant reason to talk and then i’ll do a war dance on your head not looking for a fight, left that mindset awhile ago, but don’t…

verse by david m. orcutt………………………take what you need, leave the rest   no matter how much i study, no matter how much i pray that tendency to react unkind never goes away yeah i know i’m only human, but that excuse does little for me i loathe saying i’m sorry…

forget what you know let it all go go to a place you have never been to before you aren’t in charge, just along for the ride two little girls make you heart glow inside so i stop and take a minute to say”thank-you God it wasn’t going to be…

there is no greater honor you can give a friend than your undivided attention even a fool is considered wise when he is silent……………Proverbs there is far more power in the ear than in the mouth to hear is to receive information which then can be directed to action, which…

it is an incredible experience to go to bed as one man and to awaken as a different one…………………….a better man…. renewed, restored and a better model this doesn’t have to be an experience for a few…………………somehow i think it is commonly held that life changing occurrences are for a…

proverbs 16:3 commit thy works to the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established I claim this verse as my release from the bondage of self ————————————————————————————i’m not particularly fond of you…………….nor you of me but in this maze of life………………..damn if i don’t need you and you need me…

the feeling one experiences when something is revealed is such a mixed bag of emotions………………………………excitement, confusion,humility, ignorance , foolish, gratitude…………………on and on especially if you felt it was something you knew learning takes on so many forms and i am only aware of these lessons sometimes……………………… i wish that wasn’t true…

I don’t spend much time looking back, but sometimes it is permissible when something you thought you experienced you realized you missed under the influence there are many things and places my body was and my mental faculties were somewhere else so it is with an acute understanding as i…

If one is prone to incessant chatter, the consensus is that you become a pounding drum to be endured and not taken seriously of course there are indeed times when a few sentences won’t suffice and that is to be expected but if every avenue ventured down leads to a…

grateful to be able to say that i’m not carrying over unfinished business into the new year it didn’t get the best of me as i might have hoped but i didn’t bring any excess baggage either this is the way it goes sometimes……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… sometimes you tread water and you…

When the urge to examine and correct ones’ life is driven by self motivation rather than necessity perhaps it could be uttered that person is in search of enlightenment………ttucro   so part of my tree often offends me, could it have that effect on you i pose this question while…

when i was born, before i began to crawl, i was assigned a job to do the events in my life have molded me and lead me to where i am now along the way, i was confronted with decisions and many paths that i choose were not the best…

so much stuff was spinning around, thought it might be a good time to come down from the tree i planted to get away from the responsibility of being me i would climb down, do what had to be done and scamper back to my perch from my vantage point…

my eyesight has changed as the earth continues to spend in so many ways each day a new life begins i am so grateful i don’t feel like i am heading to the end,rather a new beginning we gather and keep bits and pieces along the way, often we have…

i’d like to think if i were wealthy, i would be like you quiet an unassuming trying to do the best you can do regular ”Joe” quietly making your way through this world i didn’t detect a certain air nor did i see judging stares, a pleasant demeanor as you…

not waiting on tomorrow, might not come anyway look into the sunrise and say a prayer of thanks you said this day was coming but you couldn’t tell me when that i would believe God is everything or He didn’t exist …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. i listen to the argument that God doesn’t…

someone will cross your path in this life and only you can give them what they need be that person’s hero friendship encouragement patience protection listener confidant the list could go on forever there is someone only you can touch and open the lock on their heart and mind when…

must take a lot of time if you believe in many God’s to get all your prayers prayed My God is very convenient one prayer gets the job done ,my God is so big, glad i only need one one God is enough see i believe this God created everything,…

i let myself out, i made parole forgave myself for the things i stole what a price to pay ,locking yourself away because i didn’t want to see, what had become of me so I made a decision to put on the brakes, owning my mistakes, something changed inside of me………………………for…

i focused on my inner self and found to my surprise my outer world had also changed because i saw with different eyes the deeper inside i went the more i felt at ease the things that plagued me for so long, no longer bothered me never realized how much…

the dictionary defines few as not many,……………..pause it doesn’t say not enough everything in the physical and mental worlds has a weight attached to it, in terms of possessions and thoughts ideally we physically own what we need, everything else to a degree is a burden…..they may give us pleasure…

1  it’s not all good that got me here but it is what happened, that much is clear and when I do look back the person i see is not the person i am today that in itself makes it easier to live with my past   2  i spent…

heard about this guy, who lived some time ago said He knew the secret of living in this world many laughed when He shared with them what He wanted them to know but a few stayed and listened,and something inside them began to grow   at first it was just…

doesn’t take many words to convey the message of love     and there aren’t enough words once that love is lost       in…………………………………………………………………………………..or out

i had this dream, i think i know what it means but i’ll let you decide for yourself ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the smell of smoke roused me from my sleep i opened the bedroom door and fire was racing up the stairs, all i could see was flames i had placed escape…

as the pages of the calendar turn, the goals in my life have changed it isn’t about lots of material things, or loads of money in the bank it’s about peace the beautiful peace that comes with being still and quiet inside, when the wheels stop turning and a thousand…

it’s better if i do, think more than less of you really doesn’t matter what you do or say, i’ll try to like you anyway so any harm you meant for me comes roaring back at you it’s better if i try to help you, maybe we both will learn…

attack, attack,attack you never are to blame have to keep that facade intact you have devoloped the act of transferring responsibility into an art with details so fine that any portrait painter would envy them you have it down so well you believe it yourself …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… but i have one…

if………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… the bottom drops out and i lose my job the doctor finds i have an incurable disease the house burns down i lose my friends and family i lose my way i find my way i become indigent the government takes my freedom ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. no matter what this world…

hold on it’s coming but it may take a while when country comes first and when good means good for all and not some when ethnicity becomes secondary and citizenship becomes primary when a hand reaches out to get or give help, it will have nothing to do with color…