A Major Change and the 2 Greatest Laws

December 2nd, 2007

Hi,


Hope your day is going well!


Let’s get right to it:


A dear brother of mine pointed out a flaw in
my wording.


We have all become so politically correct
that even I fell into the trap.


AA has a statement in their 12 Steps that
there is a “higher power.”


But, they leave it up to the individual what
that “higher power” is. So, I’ve heard
people call that “higher power” anything from
“God” to “Grandfather” to “Nature.”


(No, I’m not a drunk or an alcoholic, but I
was a Master At Arms for the Alcohol Rehab
Center when I was in the Marine Corps, so one
of my jobs was to drive the patients to their
AA meetings.)


So, as some don’t believe in God, I, instead
referred to the powers of the universe, or
the universe, as “whom I prefer to call God.”
If I lose you, because of this switch in my
wording, I will still pray for you. But,
from now on, I’m going to say what I mean.
God is the one who created the laws of the
universe. So, from now on, I will tell you
flat out when you align yourself with God’s
principles, instead of pussyfooting around
the subject in fear of upsetting a few who
want to be “politically correct.”


Like the old Meat Loaf song says, “I know
that I will never be politically correct, and
I don’t give a –” whoops! Wait a minute!
I’m not completing that line, because this is
a “family friendly” blog!


Anyhow, on to some wisdom!


God says, (see I told you I’d do that)
through his son Jesus Christ that the two
greatest laws are to love the Lord your God
with all your soul, mind, heart, and
strength; and the second is to love your
neighbor as YOU Love Yourself.”


But, you have to first LOVE yourself. Too
many times we focus on what we see outwardly,
the body, and we judge ourselves on that.
But the body is the LEAST important of all
the parts that make up what YOU are.
Everything else, your soul, mind, and heart
all come from your brain.


Your personality is not designed by your
body. Your attitude is not designed by your
body.


So, what you have to do is Forget Your Body,
or at the very least, put it in its place of
importance when you decide what you love
about yourself.


You will find when you start aligning
yourself with the laws God set forth, that
you won’t hate yourself for “what you’ve
done” or “who you are.”


You’ll find that you don’t need the crutches
of drugs or booze to be happy. You will find
that you can be happy just be deciding to be
happy.


Remember, Paul the Apostle said, “Whatever
situation I find myself in, I am content.”


He didn’t say, “Well, if I just have a shot
of wine, or if I’m filled up with herbs, or
full up from a good meal, or if good music is
playing, then I’m content.”


God gave us the power to be happy within
ourselves.


(And, it sure beats being miserable all the
time.)


Make it a great day in the Lord!


Brother Paul

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Need Your Input, Some Wisdom, and–

November 25th, 2007

Hi,


Well, the audio version of Wanted: Liars,
Thieves, and Murderers is almost ready! I
only have six chapters left to record, and
those will probably be done later today.


But, I need your input.


How much is it worth to be able to hear this
work?


Remember, this is a book that will be able to
help people understand that their life can
move forward regardless of their past.


It’s a book that can be used by churches to
help people come to salvation.


And, it’s even got some of my ir-repressible
humor in it.


The man who kicked me into gear showed me
flat out that I can’t give stuff away forever.


And nobody is donating.


So, my question is this:


What is it worth? $5? $10? $17? $27?


I know that actual physical audio books sell
for around $29. But, they have a
mass-marketing machine that lets them do
that. And, this book will be instantly
downloadable, so it saves me headaches of
having to deal with delays, shipments, and
logistics.


But, I need to know from you what it is
worth.


Anyhow, enough of that, how about some
wisdom? (That’s why you’re really here,
isn’t it?)


I recently hit a low in my day time job.


No, I won’t go into the details, but needless
to say, it caused me and some of my family
members a lot of grief.


I began questioning why I am here? If I can’t
reach real success with my day job, than what
good am I?


And, then I realized that I had pinned all my
hopes on relying on others. The problem was
not that I had not done my job, but that the
people that I relied on for success in my job
couldn’t complete their part in a timely
manner.


It’s called “locus of control.” The “locus”
(no, this is nothing to do with them
grasshopper like creatures known as locust
that are mentioned as John the Baptist eating
and what plagued the Pharoah of Moses’ time)
is the location of where the control lies.
I cannot “control” other people. As a matter
of fact, Wallace Wattles said that would be
wrong to do so. But, I can control what I can
do.


I’ve found some alternatives in case my day
job doesn’t work out. But, that’s because
“I” chose to locate the alternatives.
There are no earthly people that you can rely
on infallibly. There are some who will be
more reliable than others, but there are no
earthly people that you can 100% rely on.
But, you can rely on the “universe” whom I
choose to call God. You can align yourself
with universal laws, and control what YOU can
do.


When you are down, when you have given up
hope, remember this: “the universe” (code
word “God”) has not given up on you. There
is another path that is better in the long
run. But, you have to believe. It will reveal
itself.


In other words, it ain’t over until you’re
dead. And you obviously ain’t dead, yet,
because you are reading this, aren’t you?
(And, even when you’re dead, there’s a better
“life” where you are headed.)


Make it a great day in the Lord!


Brother Paul er Paul 

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Talking About Control!

November 10th, 2007

James, the brother of Jesus wrote that “he who
can control his tongue can control his whole body.”
But, YOU never have ANY problem with that, right?
(Note that the capitalization is denoting huge amounts
of sarcasm!)
I know that’s one of my biggest problems.
Controlling the tongue.
But, we’re going to start exploring how to control the
tongue, and your whole body.
Your body is interconnected with your emotional state.
Let’s try it, okay!
Try this: I want you to dig your chin deep into your
chest, look down at the floor, hunch your shoulders up,
and state:
“I’m really, really happy.”
How’d that come out?
Yeah, I know. The words don’t sound like you’re
really, really happy, do they?
Well, try this:
Throw your arms wide up into the air, put a huge smile
on your face, and announce to the whole world:
“I’m so depressed!”
Doesn’t work, does it.
Well, that’s the thing with the way we all were
designed.
Experts have made thousands of dollars “reading people”
by looking at their body language.
Your body was designed to show how you really feel.
And, you can lie all day long, but somebody who is
really good at reading body language can tell you’re
lying.
There are people who have learned to “mind read” what
people are thinking just by looking at their face.
So, if you truly focus on what you are saying, and you
really believe it, your whole body will be in agreement
with it.
So, here’s what you do:
When you want to just “tell somebody off”, I want you
to stop.
Now, relax your whole body before you say anything.
Look this person straight in the eye, and now say it
factually without anger.
Yes, you may hurt their feelings, because you expressed
yourself. But you have now done so, without anger, and
without foul intentionally hurting words.
And, you didn’t even insult his or her mother or any of
his or her anatomical parts!
You have done so with assertion, instead of aggression.
Your mouth cannot harm others, if you are relaxed and
focusing on stating your feelings in a calm, relaxed
way.
This is the start of controlling your tongue, and your
body. By inter-twining the two, and realizing they are
tied together, you can now change your posture, or your
body, and start to control your tongue.
We’ll talk more later.
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Make it a great day!
Brother Paul

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Of Talents And Not Being A What!!!???

October 27th, 2007

What’s Your Talent?

Most people probably don’t realize that the
word that we know as “talent” came from
a denomination of money.

But, when the Lord told the parable of
the talents, that’s where that word that
we know as “individual skill” comes from.

But, what the parable taught was that you
invest what you have given to you, and
multiply it.

The master gave each of his three servants
some talents, or coins before he went away.

The first servant invested his and when the
master returned, he had doubled it. And
showed it to the master.

The second servant, although, given fewer
talents, also invested the entrusted amount
and doubled his.

The third servant, went and buried his
talent.

His excuse?

He wanted to make sure that he gave back
exactly what he had been given.

The master then surprised his servants by
letting them not only keep what was
given them, but also the earned amounts.

And, he took the one talent, and gave it
to the one who now had ten talents.

The same is true of you. If you only use
exactly what is given you in the way
of skill, you’ve accomplished nothing.

And, it will be taken from you.

But, if you use your skill, you’ll be
given more skills.

If you are not growing, you’re dying.

What “talent” has been given you by
the universe, that I chose to call “God.”

How are you using it? Are you adding
to it?

Or, are you dying?

Will the talent you have be taken away?

The universe made it so that we are
inter-dependent upon each other.

Your skill, or talent, has to grow and
show.

It has to be used to benefit others.

If it isn’t, or doesn’t, you’re no better
than a Satanist.

Many people think the heart of Satanism
is devil-worship and blood sacrifices, and
cursing their enemies.

That’s part of it.

But, the heart of Satanism, which I’ll
probably get into later is this:

“All for me. If it ain’t for me, then I
curse you.”

You’ll find out soon enough, that
those who live that kind of life
end up dying young and in bizarre
ways.

Anton LaVey, the author of the
Satanic Bible, died in his 50s.

Alester Crowley’s house fell into
the sea, while it was owned by
a rock star.

John Lennon was gunned down
when Satan was through with him.

Are you getting the point?

They all had their own “talent.”

But, it was used for their benefit
alone.

They hid their talent. They weren’t
benefitting others.

Their talent, and their lives were all
taken from them.

Solomon, who had many wives, (and
probably a few men) in pursuit of
his pleasure, although given the
gift of wisdom, and also wealth,
had he but kept his promise to
follow God’s laws, would also have
had long life.

But, because he chose not to, God
kept his promise of wealth and
wisdom, but took his life at an
earlier age.

You’ll understand more later how
the main key to the universe is not
just building your talents, but it’s
also in keeping in line with the
universal laws, which I say are
controlled by God.

Make it a great day in the Lord!

Brother Paul

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The Difference Between Toleration and Contentment

October 20th, 2007

What You Tolerate, You Cannot Change.

Seems like a pretty simple statement.

But, it’s not quite that easy.

Let’s change something really big that we
just can’t stand.

How about the Iraq War?

I don’t care whether you want to bomb Iraq
back into the stone age, or if you want to
bring the troops home.

What kind of commitment will it take to
accomplish that?

1) Run for President, so you can make the
call.

Okay, that means that you have to put
together a political machine that can
accomplish that. And, by the way, both
sides of the Republican and Democratic
sides are filled with also-rans that want
to try and be the next Pres. (One of them
is even hiding his real party-affiliation to
do it. Not saying he is wrong, just that
he is doing it.)

You could give up your job, and focus all
your attention on that task, in doing what
ever it is you need to do to
make those changes.

But, if you’re not willing to do that, you
won’t change it.

Let’s say that your passion is stopping
pedophiles from raping 3 year olds.
Outside of protecting your own
3 year olds, what can you do?

You could focus all your attentions again on
doing what it takes to become a
congressman or a prosecutor
or a judge. Now, realize that some of these
careers take 8 or more years to accomplish,
plus you have to deal with a lot of things
that have nothing to do with your cause.

Or, you could build communities
far away from schools and children and make
them available to the pedophiles. But, you’re
going to need money, and you’ll have to put
up with their personalities and lifestyles to do
that.

Again, if you are not willing to do what it
takes, then it is not a cause, and you are
tolerating it.

But, what about your environment that you
have control over. Your weight, your
appearance, your job.

Those are things that you can do something
about. You can take immediate action to do
something about those things.

The Apostle Paul, (by now you know), wrote
that whatever situation he found himself in,
he was content.

When he was imprisoned along with Silas, he
sang.

Why?

Because, when he chose the path that God and
Jesus had chosen for him, while he was on the
road to Damascus to go and kill more
Christians, he had to accept his calling.

And that was why he was in that prison. Yes,
the Roman guards put him there, and that was
also somewhat beyond his control.

But, yet Paul also mentioned, in a different
passage, that he buffeted his body daily,
and that he fought the good fight.

What’s the difference?

The difference between being content and
toleration is your degree of control over the
situation. The more control you have over
something you despise, the quicker and more
effectively you can change it.

Just like Paul chose his path to accept his
mission, he also chose his battles.
And he knew that he could win the ones
that he had the most control over.

So, if you decide to follow a cause, and you
have to set yourself on that path to be in
the position you need to be to change it, be
content, and put all into mastering the things
you need to accomplish so that you can be
effective in that cause. Do the tasks as
unto the Lord. Work as if Jesus was your
boss at mastering these matters.

Just remember, the more control that you have
over a situation, the more you can change it.
The more you are willing to do what you need
to do to change something, the more effective
you will be.

Make it a great day in the Lord!

Brother Paul

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It’s Not About Arriving from brotherpaul.net

October 15th, 2007

It’s not about arriving.Too many people think about it’s all about being able to say, “I have arrived.”That your final destination? The place where you have arrived.

Okay, then. Here’s my question to you:

If you have arrived, are you in heaven or hell?

Because that’s really the only two destinations of having arrived.Everything else is about a journey. The apostle Paul, (by now you know that ain’t me), said, “I fight the good fight.” and “I continue to strive.”Not “I fought the good fight.” or “I have striven.” (Or is that strove? Oh who cares, you get the point) You need to realize that everything on this earth is but a journey. And, like all journeys, if you’ve made a mis-step, you can correct it, or find a different route to get to where you’re going.

But, you need to stop thinking about having arrived. If you continue to go with a direction, and continue in that direction, you can accomplish more.

But, if you’ve chosen a goal and then reached it, you’re done.

Now, that doesn’t mean that every path is right for you. You may have to re-evaluate when opportunities arise, (which is not once in your lifetime, but actually come once per week) to see if you are on the right path.

But, now we’re talking about things that are not just physical. For example, when you hit your target weight, if you’re losing weight, you’re done right. So, then that’s not an arrival that has put you in heaven or hell.

So, here’s what you need to say: “I am maintaining my ideal weight.” Not, “I have reached my final weight.”

Because if you don’t, the nature of things is to take you on to a path that may not necessarily be right for you.

But, this even applies more to when you’re discussing things that are not physical. “I am becoming more at peace with myself and the world,” not, “I am at peace with myself and the world.”

Do you see what I’m trying to say to you? Is it making sense?

Life is continuous. Once it stops, you’re on your final destination to heaven or hell.

Success is continuous. It’s not a destination. Even if you have enough money to be what the world terms as successful, do you then have enough time to enjoy the things that matter the most. Then, that’s the new path you need to travel.

Many people think that goal setting solves the problems. It will help, but it’s not the final solution.

The final solution is to make your affirmations in a state of continuance, not a final destination.

Your brain will believe whatever you tell it, and if you tell it that something’s done, it can’t continue to improve on it.

And, you need to contiually improve.

More next time!

Make it a great day in the Lord!

Brother Paul

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